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.
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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…

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

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.

Additional items to think about before you start to write…

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*You will have some time to work on your drafts

*Sam the Athlete paragraph Peer Edit

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We are starting 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

-We will be starting a new short story “Harrison Bergeron” and we will read this aloud as a class.

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-2081

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For my M-Z online learners:

1.  Please continue to work on your paragraph outline on “Sam The Athlete”.  I would like you to work on transforming your outline and making it a rough draft.
2. Please read the documents above:
   1. Transitional expressions
   2. Incorporating Quotes
   3. Style

Please think of these documents as you transform your paragraph outline into a rough draft.

3. Please read the short story “Harrison Bergeron”

Other things to think about

a) Review your short story terms for a quiz

b) Wednesday write draft  should be completed for tomorrow…

Good Morning!

*Reminders:  “Identities” paragraph should be complete and uploaded to Teams.  You can also publish this onto your edublog using the TAG

NelsonIdentitiesQ12020

Reminder:  Your draft of “Wednesday Write” should be uploaded by Tuesday September 22nd.

Reminder:  Prose and rhetorical devices quiz on Thursday September 24th.

Kahoot:

https://create.kahoot.it/v2/details/429c0425-2a61-4dcf-9bcf-cf0b2fd68df5

https://create.kahoot.it/v2/details/55cc03ae-0b71-4b07-9ee1-948294d49bf1

On Friday, you had time to work on your synthesis essay.  The essay topics and outline are below…

*Essay topics for our synthesis essay

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*We are starting a new short story today

Most Dangerous Game Pre-Reading Activity below:

Most Dangerous Game Short Story below:

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Good Afternoon!

1.  We are reading an essay by Bertand Russell

bertrand-russell-and-three-things-i-have-lived-for

How does this connect to our theme of “The Human Condition”?

*Yesterday, you should have read the document (prose fiction terms) below at home

*Yesterday, you should have read the short story “Sam the Athlete”.

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*Please open the document below:

1. Short story summary:  this chart will guide you through applying the short story terms to the short story “Sam The Athlete”.  This chart should have been completed yesterday at home.

*Start to study the prose fiction terms as you will have a quiz on these next week…

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/26/vancouver-housing-unaffordable-study_n_9081516.html

-Non-Fiction Articles on housing

•  http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-price-sales-1.3721141
• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-rental-market-places-people-in-a-lower-class/article31304421/
• perspectives on how people live around the world…is there bias in this?
• http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/health/gallery/where-children-sleep/index.html

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For My online learners today (A-L), please work on the following:

1. Please complete the Paragraph outline for “Sam the Athlete”.  The question you are responding to is from the Yes/No Chart.  Should Sam continue to wear the skirt?
2. Please read the short story “House” above.
3. Please review the Prose Fiction terms.  There will be a quiz on these next week so always good to be prepared!
4. If you did not complete “No Red Ink” from Wednesday you can use this time to do so.
5. Wednesday Writes:  if you did not finish your draft from Wednesday you can do so.

Good Morning!

*Rhetorical Devices and Strategies:  these are terms you also need to know for a quiz

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*How are we making out with our paragraphs on “Identities”:  time to peer edit and review.

*Essay topics for our synthesis essay

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Kahoots:)

-claims and arguments

-fallacies

-We are starting a new short story today

Most Dangerous Game Pre-Reading Activity below:

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Most Dangerous Game Short Story below:

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Good Afternoon!

1.  We are reading an essay by Bertand Russell

bertrand-russell-and-three-things-i-have-lived-for

How does this connect to our theme of “The Human Condition”?

*We will be reading the short story “Sam the Athlete” aloud as a class.

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*Please open the document below:

1. Short story summary:  this chart will guide you through applying the short story terms to the short story “Sam The Athlete”.
2. Download

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*Start to study the prose fiction terms as you will have a quiz on these next week…

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For My online learners today (M-Z), please work on the following:

1. Please read the short story “Sam the Athlete” above.
2. Please complete the short story summary sheet (above).  This will guide you through the short story elements and apply them to a short story.  This is a generic sheet –and in this case you will apply it to the short story “Sam the Athlete”.
3. Please review the Prose Fiction terms (posted on Monday and Tuesday September 14th and 15th).  There will be a quiz on these next week so always good to be prepared!
4. If you did not complete “No Red Ink” from Wednesday you can use this time to do so.
5. Wednesday Writes:  if you did not finish your draft from Thursday you can do so.

Good Afternoon!

Please join me at 12:15 for a TEAMS meeting…the link is below:

Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Today we are starting “No Red Ink”. In class on Monday and Tuesday I gave each of you a login and password.  You will need this slip of paper (or photo if you took a picture on your phone…)

No Red Ink:  You will get a username and password to log into No Red Ink.  You will be navigated to put in your pop culture interests…You will then have an assignment to work on….sentence fragments.

Friday Writes:  we will spend time each Wednesday.  This writing will mostly be focused on ‘compositions’.  This is an opportunity for you to be creative, reflective and critical with your own writing. You will upload your draft each week onto TEAMS.

Narrative Writing

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Topics:

*The biggest misunderstanding

*The difficult decision

Good Morning!

Today we are starting “No Red Ink”

No Red Ink:  You will get a username and password to log into No Red Ink.  You will be navigated to put in your pop culture interests…You will then have an assignment to work on….sentence fragments.

Wednesday Writes:  we will spend time each Wednesday writing.  This writing will mostly be focused on ‘compositions’.  This is an opportunity for you to be creative, reflective and critical with your own writing.

Narrative Writing

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Topics:

*The biggest misunderstanding

*The difficult decision

*We are starting a new short story “Long Long After School”.

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*Find Examples of ‘Irony’

Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

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How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis