Monday, Tuesday – March 4, 5

Agenda

 

Tuesday:

  • Zines: fold please 🙂 I should have three from everyone – if you want a copy, let me know and I will print it later – thanks!
  • continuation of check in for your progress
  • continue to write – go from notes/draft to a decent draft today
    • visit the Resources tab – go to both style and grammar documents for editing your work
    • work on the Sentences review in the Resources tab
  • final, edited draft is due to TEAMS on Friday

Monday:

  • Zines! fold and share :)! I’ve read most of them and they are GRRREAT!
  • Today you will do some reading at the start of class:
  • Be prepared to show the draft of your First Page of the Novel assignment; be prepared to share with me your ideas about the following:
    • the issue/topic/idea that plays out in 150 years
    • the W’s = who, what, where, why
    • conflict and setting details?
    • the character/s – protagonist – who are they?
    • will there be dialogue? or all internal thoughts

Monday – Wednesday March 4, 5 and 6

Agenda:

 

Wednesday

  • T-Chart for the contrast and comparison of Shawshank and HoftheN AND the Hopepunk quotes are due Thursday to TEAMS (tomorrow)
  • Parallelism #2 11 – 20 due today
    • Parallelism test is on Friday – study materials are on the Writing and Grammar blog; what to study:

      • watch the slide show
      • understand the parts of speech for possible:
        • Verb tense pattern
        • Subject, verb pattern
        • Correlative conjunction pattern (neither/nor, not only but also)
        • Prepositional phrases pattern
        • Subordinate clauses pattern
      • Resources for studying for the Parallelism test:
        1. Website with the slideshow
        2. Second website with the sentences that MAY end up on the test
        3. Chomp Chomp on Parallel structure

Friday, March 1

Agenda

 

  • Free Write for Scales (#12)
  • Some of you still need to hand in the Drabble to TEAMS!!
  • Work Period:
    • please have yesterday’s activity on your desktop
    • read through all the materials for the First Page of the Novel Assignment (Short Story)
    • Read a few more ‘first pages’ if you like
    • Start brainstorming and writing!
    • Remember, only 400 words – it is not a short story – leave your reader wanting more!
    • have the details (character/protagonist, issue 150 years in the future? conflict etc.) sorted out for Monday, March 4… by the end of Monday’s class, you should have a draft
  • Post the Zines correctly:

 

Monday, Tuesday – February 26, 27

Agenda:

 

Tuesday

  • Scales: prompt is in the Experimental writing tab; this is #9
  • First Page of the Novel Assignment – all materials are in the Short Story Tab of the blog:
    • review documents and work on the past winners for review document

Monday

  • read this: First novel past winners for review – now in the short story tab
  • work on Drabble/Zine
  • poetry assessment

English 12

Agenda:

 

  • We will discuss the T-Chart for Section #6
  • Work on the rest of the questions:
    • 7 – Characterization of Chris and his Romanticism
    • 8 – Laurence’s descriptive and figurative writing
    • 9 a, b, c, d – make sure that you are thorough and look in the story for evidence (symbolism, allegory, allusion, theme)
    • 10 – who is the protagonist? Defend your choice
  • the questions are due Wednesday, February 28
  • Parallelism #1 11 – 20 are due Tuesday, February 27

 

 

Monday, February 26 to Thursday March 7 COL Podcast

Agenda and Resources for the Podcast will be posted here

Timeline:

 

Wednesday and Thursday, March 5, 6

When you are creating your post with the reflection, keep the following in mind:

This assignment touches upon the following BIG IDEA, from the BC curriculum…
– Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

This assignment will also…
– Develop an awareness of the diversity within and across First Peoples societies represented in texts
– Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes.
– Transform ideas and information to create original texts.

For your blog post:

  • Category = English 9
  • TAG = COLpodcast24
  • Make sure your post is PUBLISHED!! DO NOT JUST SAVE IT IN DRAFT OR PREVIEW!!! TURN-IN THE PUBLISHED POST LINK TO TEAMS BY THURSDAY NIGHT
  • Instructions for building the post:

EACH of you will create a blog post with your Podcast – your post should have the ‘deliverables’ in this order:

    • 1. Title of the post = Indigenous Exploration – “the topic/issue you chose”
    • 2. An introductory sentence introducing your topic and the names of the people you worked with, and the technology you used
    • 3. the Podcast embed of the MP3 file (share with the group through One Drive)
    • 4. Individually, write a reflection based on the following:
      • A general discussion/reflection on:
        a. Your experiences creating this assignment
        b. Your group’s path or journey from start to final product in researching the topic
        c. Obstacles or items you learnt in recording; interesting insights, connections made?
      • Then, reflect on one of the below core competency questions:

Option 1: Critical Thinking … How does your artifact (audio recording) tie in with what you have learned/knew before about the topic/issue? How has your thinking changed? What made it change?
Option 2: Communication … What are some ways that you use to communicate your learning?
Option 3: Positive and Personal Cultural Identity…What are some aspects you value about this culture, as well as your own? What valuable connections might exist?

Here is a document that can help you with the Core Competencies reflection: Core-Competency-Reflection-Guide-English-9-COL

    • 5. List the resources used:
      • Author.
      • Name of webpage/article
      • Publisher of the website,
      • URL to the specific page you used NOT the home page.

Resources to help you in your research and project

 

Tuesday, February 27 – Mr. Barazzuol visit:

Indigenous Exploration Project – 2024 – Sem 2

Research Tracking Form

 

Monday, February 26 – Introduction

Materials: