Friday September 31

4U1
-finish "Medical Care That's Not Fit For A Horse" questions
For Homework - review essay types, essay elements and the essays we have studied

Test - Thursday

3C1
-corrected irony and foreshadowing in "Paid Up Member"

For Homework - review your elements and stories we have read

Test - Thursday

Thursday Sept 29

4U1
-corrected persuasive essay, "The Death Penalty: Justice For None"
-introduction to editorials - elements, style, structure
-for homework: read "Medical Care That's Not Even Fit For Horse" (Reading Strategies 198) and complete the analysis sheet (if you didnt get the analysis sheet, read the essay and make sure you are able to intelligently talk about it tomorrrow)

Friday
-correct it

3C1
-corrected questions on "Paid Up Member"
-answered questions on foreshadowing and irony

Friday
-the element of suspense (define it)
-correct foreshadowing and irony questions

Wednesday September 28

4U1
-read "The Death Penalty: Justice For None" (p.208 in Reading Strategies) and analysed it

(title - how does it convey the writer's stance; locate and write down the thesis; show how, in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7, the author refutes the claims of  death penalty advocates; how are anecdote, antithesis, climatic order and parallel structure used effectively by the author)
-homework - read over page 214 and complete the chart on 215; what is one more counter argument, for the death penalty?)
-narratives are due

Tomorrow
-editorials
-"Medical Care That's Fit For A Horse" (p.198 in RS)

3C1
-finished "One of These Days" (focus on plot, symbolism and irony)
-read "Paid Up Member"
-for homework answer first 3 questions on worksheet

Tomorrow
-irony and foreshadowing in "Paid Up Member"
-suspense

Tuesday September 27

4U1
-completed worksheet on "Forget Prince Charming"
-intro to next essay, "Wheat Kings"

Homework
-complete and hand in narrative on Wednesday
-listen to "Wheat Kings" again, here is a link with some more facts about David Milgaard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIaBcfL6vU&feature=related

3C1
-peer edited memo
-completed all the questions on "One of These Days"

Homework
-finish the memo (due Thursday)
-discuss symbolism, irony and plot in "One of These Days"

Monday September 26

4U
-peer edit Narrative - it is due on Wednesday
-introduction to persuasive writing
-read "Forget Prince Charming" in Echoes p.322

3C
-defined nemesis and symbolism
-read "One of These Days" p.13 in Between the Lines
-answered 3 questions (character, setting, why won't the dentist treat him?)
-remember: rough copy of the memo is due tomorrow; good copy is due Thursday

Tomorrow
-edit memo, finish one of these days

Thursday September 22

4U1
-rhetorical devices quiz - will be handed back tomorrow
-"Growing Up Native" - read silently and answered questions

Tomorrow
-20 minutes to work on your narrative
-finish "Growing Up Native"
-introduction to next essay style

3C1
-read pages 182-202 of Communicate and summarized important parts of business writing

Tomorrow
-introduction to minor writing assignment #1

Wednesday Sept 21

4U1
-finished "Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women"
-more hints on Narrative Assignment
-rough copy due Monday; good copy due Wednesday (notice the balanced sentence!)
-another practice for rhetorical devices quiz

Thursday
-quiz on rhetorical devices
-bring Reading Strategies, will read "Growing Up Native," a narrative essay

 3C1
-wrote quiz - will get it back tomorrow

Thursday
-bring Communicate

Monday September 19

4U1  (Jordan - be sure to read this carefully!)
-reviewed devices of paradox, oxymoron and allusion, with examples
-worksheet practice on rhetorical devices
-homework check on "Snapshot"
-corrected the two homework questions and connected them - the oppressive lives that women led, in China, in the 1920's, with general statements from the essay and the specific lives of the women in the picture
-assigned 3 more questions for homework (when, where and why is this piture taken? Use of quotations, questions, exclamations and parallel structure and why is this considered informal writing?)

Tomorrow - finish "Snapshot" and introduction of narrative writing assignment
Thursday - quiz on rhetorical devices

3C1
-defined setting
-read first couple of pages of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Tomorrow - continue with the story
Wednesday or Thursday - quiz on first 5 elements and 3 short stories we have read
Thursday and Friday - introduction to first writing assignment

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Friday Sept 16

4U1
-summarized important aspects of descriptive writing (overhead)
-read over Approaches to Literature - Reader Response, Formalistic and Feminist
-read over Narrative Tutorial (p.22 in Reading Strategies and made notes)
-For Homework - read "Snapshots: Lost Lives of Women" on p.384 on Echoes and answer questions 1 and 3 on p.388

If you just joined the class in the last few days - make notes on The Descriptive Essay Tutorial on p.4 of Reading Strategies and read "The Skier" p.6 and read "Sojourners" p. 353 in Echoes.  Be sure to photocopy missed notes from someone in the class and see me for handouts.

3C1
-be sure you have caught up and reviewed everything we have done up to this point
Stories we have read - "Interlopers" and DB Cooper - both from Between The Lines
Elements we have studied and applied - Conflict, Theme and Character

Monday - "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Enjoy your weekend!

Wed Sept 14

3C1
-finished "Interlopers"
-discussed different types of characters in short stories (an overhead)
-read "DB Cooper" (p. 120)

Thursday
-short day because of mass
-will finish questions on "DB Cooper"

Friday
-Unsolved Mysteries - Whatever happened to DB Cooper?

4U1
-analysed the first part of "Sojourners"
-homework - 3 questions on the last two parts

Some hints:

Part one ends with "shrimp in toes and terns in hair" and then part two discusses whether people are just sojourners on planet Earth; part two ends with "I fancy to imagine another" (another what?) and then discusses whether the planet Eart is a sojourner.

In part two much of the discussion focusses on why we are here? Not so much on whether we literally travel, but why are we here (on Earth) for such a temporary visit?

Notice the structure - the movement form small to large is a classic writing technique

Thursday
-short periods due to mass
-final thoughts on descriptive writing
-a few more devices

Friday
-narrative writing tutorial
-"Growing Up Native" (p.16 in Reading and Writing for Success)

Tuesday Sept 13

3C1
-finished "The Interlopers"
-what is theme? took note on overhead


Tomoorow
-"DB Cooper"
-what is character? note on overhead


4U1
-take up rhetorical devices (questions 1-19)
-analysis of "The Skier"

-homework - read "Sojourners" p. 353 in Echoes answer questions 1 and 2
-at some point during the weekend, re-read "The Skier" with your chart and notes; be sure you have a good understanding of it and can explain the different devices used to create the dominant impression of the essay

Some hints:

Part one ends with shrimp in toes and terns in hair and then part two discusses whether people are just sojourners on planet Earth; part two ends with I fancy to imagine another (another what) and then discusses whether the planet Eart is a sojourner.

In part two much of the discussion focusses on why we are here? Not so much on whether we literally travel, but why are we here (on Earth) for such a temporary visit

Notice the structure - the movement form small to large is a classic writing technique

Friday Sept 9

3C1
-reviewed element of  fiction - conflict (defined it, 6 types of conflict)
-began reading "The Interlopers"

Monday
-theme
-finish "Interlopers" and answer questions

4U1
-reviewed rhetorical devices (added to our notes)
-applied devices/previous knowledge to 2 editorials

Monday
-descriptive writing
-read and analyze the "The Skier"

September 6

Welcome Back.  We will use this blog to keep you informed on what we did, what is due and what is coming up.  Please use this to keep yourself informed, whether you were in class and forgot what we did or were away and want to make sure you don't fall behind.  Remember, if you always do, what you've always done, wou will always get, what you have always gotten.  Lesson - do a little more.