Daily Archives: September 22, 2020

Tuesday September 22nd, 2020

 

Good Afternoon!

*Reminders:  you will be having a quiz on short story terms…

Last week, we read the short story “Sam the Athlete”.  We then did a short story summary as well as a Yes/No chart for this story. I also asked you to complete a paragraph outline for a persuasive story on this paragraph for Monday.  Yesterday at home, you were to work on transforming your outline into a rough draft…

Additional items to think about before you start to write…did we get a chance to read through these yesterday?

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*You will have some time to work on your drafts.  Your draft should be complete by Wednesday Sept. 23rd.

*Sam the Athlete paragraph Peer Edit

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Yesterday at home, you were to read a new short story “Harrison Bergeron”

*Brainstorm:  What are rights and freedoms that you believe every human should have?

*The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/CH37-4-3-2002E.pdf

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-2081

*Please complete a Venn Diagram comparing the short story “Harrison Bergeron” to the movie 2081. You can use the document below, complete it on paper, or create columns in a word document for example.

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For my A-Z online learners:

  1.  Please continue to work on your paragraph draft on “Sam The Athlete”.  I would like you to work on transforming your outline and making it a rough draft.  Your draft should be complete by Wednesday Sept. 23rd.
  2. Please complete the short story graphic organizer (above) for the short story “Harrison Bergeron”.  Remember, you can work with a partner…
  3. *Please complete a Venn Diagram comparing the short story “Harrison Bergeron” to the movie 2081. You can use the document below, complete it on paper, or create columns in a word document for example.

Other things to think about:

a) Review your short story terms for a quiz

b) Wednesday write draft  should be completed and uploaded by Tuesday night…

c)  If you did not finish last weeks No Red Ink, you should do so…

 

 

Tuesday September 22nd, 2020

Good Morning!

*Reminder:  your synthesis essay draft should be completed by Thursday September 24th, 2020

*Reminder:  You have a quiz on Thursday September 24 on the prose fiction terms, ‘arguments’ of rhetorical device document, and ‘what is style’ document.

*Reminder:  Your Wednesday Write should be uploaded to Teams some time today Tuesday September 22nd.

-We started a new short story yesterday but didn’t get a chance to finish reading it…

Most Dangerous Game Short Story below:

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*The Most Dangerous Game:  Character Chart

*The Most Dangerous Game:  Comprehension Questions

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*Allusions in “The Most Dangerous Game

“The Most Dangerous Game”:  Writing activity.   This story ends with an indeterminate ending.  Write a paragraph that would continue after the last paragraph of the story to illustrate how you see the story would go…

*Time to work on our Synthesis essay on Long Long After School and A Teacher’s Rewards