Category Archives: English Studies 12 Honours

Monday and Tuesday March 15th and 16th

Good Morning!

*Silent Reading

*Literature Circle Discussions

*Class time to complete work:

  1.  Background Infomation Infograph Assignment
  2. Wednesday Writes Best Write and Portfolio (and if you want to peer edit)

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Online Learners:

  1. Some of you may meet on Teams with other members reading the same novel for a discussion….
  2. Background Information Infograph Assignment
  3. Wednesday Writes Best Write and Portfolio (and if you want to peer edit)

Friday March 12th, 2021

Good Morning!

Hopefully you have been able to look at the novel choices and have one in mind.  We will discuss the books and what they are about:)

*If you have decided, we can distribute books/record numbers.

*If all agreeable, we can give 20 minutes to read so you can get a feel for your novel:)

*Once you have chosen a novel, you will need to figure out a reading schedule with other members of your group:

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*Once you have a reading schedule, you will have to figure out your roles for Discussions.  These will occur  Monday/Thursday (A-L)…..Tuesday/Friday (M-Z)

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We will be starting a new assignment and you will have time to work on this:

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Online Learners:

*Please work on your Wednesday Write #5 as well as your portfolio

*Please work on your Background Information Infograph

 

Thursday March 11th, 2021

Good Morning!

Hopefully you have been able to look at the novel choices and have one in mind.  We will discuss the books and what they are about:)

*If you have decided, we can distribute books/record numbers.

*If all agreeable, we can give 20 minutes to read so you can get a feel for your novel:)

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We will be starting a new assignment and you will have time to work on this:

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Online Learners:

Please work on your Wednesday Write #5 as well as your portfolio

 

Wednesday March 10th, 2021

Good Morning,

We will be meeting at 9:15am… here is the link for our Teams meeting:

Click here to join the meeting

Wednesday Writes:

  1. The pursuit of freedom involves change.
  2. Determination
  3. Forming meaningful connections may enrich lives
  4. A scary story or experience

*Novels to consider for reading:

  1. The Kite Runner
  2. American Dirt
  3. Son of a Trickster
  4. All the Light you Cannot See
  5. The Nightingale
  6. The Tattooist of Auschwitz

 

 

Thursday March 4th, 2021

Good Morning!

*Reminder:  You will have your synthesis test tomorrow…please look at previous posts to see what literature to expect….also, review your prose fiction terms….

*Of Mice and Men:  Chapter 5

*Women in Literature….Curley’s Wife, Karaoke (Queen of the North), the Mom in Borders, Daisy….

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Of Mice and Men:  the movie….:)

Wednesday March 3rd, 2021

Good Morning,

Wednesday Writes:

Please remember to narrow down your topic, think of one particular moment in time and write with both descriptive and figurative language….

1)Sometimes people are unable to control the directions of their own lives

2)  Acceptance

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“Two Women”:  Dialogue poem

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*Last night you were to have read Chapter 4 of “Of Mice and Men”….what happened in the chapter?

*Isolation and Loneliness organizer…

Tuesday March 2nd, 2021

Good Morning,

*Head’s Up:  If you have not yet handed in your Gatsby synthesis essay…you need to do so ASAP.

*Head’s Up;  Literature we have studied to prep for the test:

-Prose Fiction Terms

-Poem:  I Hear America Singing

-Poem:  I Too America Sing

-Song:  This is America 

-Poem:  Caged Bird 

-Short Story:  Borders

-Speech:  Martin Luther King Jr “I Have a Dream”

-Spoken Word:  Amanda Gorman

-Town Hall Discussion:  Justin Trudeau                             

-Poem:   Walking on Both Sides of an Invisible Border

-Critical Essay:  Through the One-Way Mirror

-Excerpt from a novel: The Jade Peony

-Poem: What do I Remember of the Evacuation

-Documentary: CBC:  Stolen Children

-Short Story: Queen of the North

-Short Story:  The Waltz

-Novella: Of Mice and Men

*The Role of Women in literature…..

*”Queen of the North”, Borders, Caged Bird, The Waltz …..Curly’s wife and Daisy…..

*Read aloud the short story “The Waltz”.

*Gender roles in The Victorian era:  google search…

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*We looked at gender roles…looking at gender roles in “The Waltz”.  What did you all learn about gender roles in the Victorian era? Discuss

“Two Women”:  Dialogue poem

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*Today, we will read  “Of Mice and Men” chapter 4.

*Isolation and Loneliness organizer…

Monday March 1st, 2021

Good Morning!

*Head’s Up:  reminder that you will have a test at the end of the week…

*We will finish reading our short story “Queen of the North”.

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Of Mice and Men:  Chapter 3…what happened?

Getting into character writing activity:  ( I Shoulda Done It Myself…) Later on in the chapter, Candy expresses remorse for allowing someone else to shoot his dog. Re-write this scene (beginning on page 48), but instead of Carlson taking the dog outside, have Candy do it instead.

As Candy is leading his dog outside consider the following questions in your response:  What would be going through Candy’s mind? How would he act? What would he say? How would he do it?  Be sure to address all of these details in your version of this scene. Try to maintain the same writing style as the author.