Tuesday- Paragraph Writing

  1. Question of the day: What is your favourite children’s book? Look up the title and the author and a very short reason why you loved it.
  2.  In groups of 6, (3 pairs) present your book to the other pairs.
  • Short summary
  • major themes
  • connection to Children’s Statement
  • Learning Journal Question- choose one to discuss with your group. EACH of you has to answer this.
    • This makes me question…
    • ____ has helped me understand that ____
    • I can now see the link between ___ and __

3. Show me your paragraph writing skills!!! I will be using this writing sample as a baseline- I will NOT be marking it on “end of grade 11” criteria but rather “where do we need to focus for the beginning of grade 11” criteria.

In a correctly structured paragraph, answer the following question: “How do the themes in the book enhance our understanding of First Peoples’ culture or history?”

  • Introductory sentence with the title and author of the book
  • In the body, it should include the theme you are addressing and a statement of what you now understand about First Peoples’ culture of history.
  • It should have a minimum of 1 piece of evidence and if you are looking to be challenged, find a quote and try to format it properly.
  • Concluding sentence
  • Due tomorrow on TEAMS if you are in honours and it is due Wednesday at midnight if you are in block 2 and 3

 

 

Monday- Kids Books!

  1. Free Write: create a story, or a reflection, or a description, or your philosophy, or a poem about this image for five minutes. Describe, question, reflect, whatever keeps your fingers typing.
  2. mountain photography Pacific NorthwestQuestion of the day: Choose ONE sentence you wrote to share with the class as the question of the day. Choose something you think sounds interesting or sophisticated. Whatever speaks to you.
  3. Children’s Book Assignment: what did you learn about Indigenous culture based on a kids’ book? Hand in the assignment to TEAMS when complete. For those of you who are away on Monday, please do the assignment but use the book Berry Song as shown at the bottom of this post. 
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Thursday and Friday- Intro to EFP

  1. Getting to know you activity in your group
  2. Copy and paste ONE paragraph from your reflection done on day one onto the Learning Journal in TEAMS. Choose a few sentences that you think best show your depth of thinking. Don’t hand in yet. We will do a few more before I officially collect.
  3. Download the Notetaking Document off of TEAMS that accompanies the PPT below. It is due Sunday night.
  4. Download the PPT

Monday- Introductions!!

Today is all about how to introduce your essay.

Note:

  • Do NOT spend a lot of time on the hook. Let it go and come back to it later. Same with the title
  • Make sure your source summary is concise and relevant to the thesis.
  • The wording of your thesis may change based on the wording of the rest of the paragraph. Please make it make sense- change it how you need.
  • Also, your thesis may have gotten better or changed a bit now that you have done more research. That is also okay. It may even change again as you write. That is okay too! It shows you are open to new ideas and you are THINKING as you write. I love it.
  • YOU MUST EMAIL ME YOUR DRAFT AT THE END OF THE BLOCK.  “Last name-draft- intro”

Below are some examples of Introductions. Use them to guide you through the process.

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Friday- Quote Picking and Outline Writing

  1. All your research and the outline MUST be completed by Monday. We start writing your introduction on Monday.
  2. Works Cited: please have this completed by Monday. Here are the links to help do it:
    1. “I lost my talk” https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i-lost-my-talk (look at the end of the website- they do it for you!)
    2. Why Am I Not on Star Trek? 
    3. Before the Sun 
    4. Knock off Native – it is a youtube video so cite it as a youtube video
  3. Quote choosing

Synthesis Essay Information

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Intro- choose sources and question

-reread the sources overnight to get a stronger understanding of the messages

-Synthesis Intro

-Brainstorm

-Thesis creation

-Begin outline

-Thesis approved

-Continue with outline

-Quote selection

-Continue with Outline-due Monday

-Works Cited completed over the weekend

 

-Begin Writing

-Introduction

-Write paragraph 1 -Write paragraph 2 -Write paragraph 3 -Conclusion and revisions

Due on TEAMS