Thursday and Friday & Weekend Homework

3C1

Thursday
-finish handout on Business Writing
-Memo structure and style - note

Friday
-watch new "Monsters" episode
-Memo assignment outline

Weekend Homework
-work on memo - rough copy due Thursday

4U1

Thursday
-finish "The Death Penalty: Justice for None"
-persuasive techniques - note

Friday
**narrative due
-"Forget Price Charming" in Echoes

What should you look for as your perfect match?

Things to think about:

1. What does the author say about personal intelligence? Personality?
2. What is the difference between promotion and prevention personality types?
3. Why does the author suggest matching opposite personality?
4. Are you a prevention or a promotion person?  

Weekend Homework
-start preparing for essay test next Friday

Analysing Evidence in "The Death Penalty: Justice for None"

1.  Go to page 213 of Reading and Writing Strategies

Define emotional appeals, refutation and logic appeals (examples, facts, expert opinions, personal experience).


2.  Identify the following evidence as an example, fact, stat or expert opinion (can be a combination of 2).  Explain your reasoning.

1. Death Penalty is legal in 38 states
2. Thurgood Marshall quote
3.  Joseph Cannon execution
4.  Death Penalty costs 2.3 million
5. 98% of death penalty prosecutors are white.
6.  Micheal Kroll quote
7. Only 5 countries plus the USA execute juveniles
8. Cases of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard and Guy Paul Morin
9. Defense attorneys show up ill prepared or drunk

Death Penalty

Why write editorials?

Monday Sept 25 to Wednesday Sept 27

3C1
-element of fiction #6 - dialogue
-finish "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Tuesday
-watch episode of "Monsters"
-work on review

Wednesday 
-quiz: first 3 stories, associated vocabulary, 6 elements
-intro to minor writing assignment #1 - business writing

Monday and Tuesday Homework
-prepare for the quiz

4U1

Monday
-rhetorical devices quiz
-persuasive techniques (overhead)
-notes on persuasive writing
-begin "The Death Penalty: Justice For None"

wheat kings

wheat kings lyrics

Tuesday
-complete "The Death Penalty"

Wednesday\
-peer editing of narrative and MLA submission instructions

**essays test will be after 6th essay studied in class (we have 2 more to do)

Thursday Sept 21

3C1
-began reading "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Weekend Homework
-begin reviewing for Wednesday's short story quiz
-what to review: 5 elements of fiction, the 2 stories we finished and any associated vocabulary words with the stories we read

Wednesday Sept 27 - quiz

4U1
-rhetorical device - short sentences (note)
-last chance rhetorical devices practice quiz (handout - our third practice!)
-final reminders for narrative assignment

Weekend Homeworrk
-work on narrative
-review for rhetorical devices quiz

Monday Sept 25 - rhetorical devices quiz
Wednesday Sept 27 - rough copy of narrative due
Friday Sept 29 - narrative due

Tues Sept 19

3C1
-completed web quest for DB Cooper - minor media assignment
-if not completed by the end of class it is due tomorrow

Homework
-complete unfinished DB web quest
-continue to review and study your elements of fiction

Upcoming Important Dates
-Tuesday Sept 26 -quiz 1 - content: first 6 elements and the first three short stories

Twilight Zone

4U1
-note on loose and periodic sentences
-another rhetorical devices practice handout
-took up questions #1,2,4,8 of "Snapshots: Lost Lives of Women"
-in class worked on #5,6

-for homework answer #7

Upcoming Important Dates
-Mon Sept 25 - rhetorical device quiz
-Wed Sept 27 - rough copy of narrative due

5 Tips for Narrative Writing

Narrative Essay Examples

Narrative Tips

gwen

aretha

Weekend Homework

3C1
-finish 4 questions on DB Cooper if you didn't finish them in class
-signatures

4U1
-heavy lifting starts next week so enjoy the weekend!
-review and memorize - all rhetorical devices, dominant impression of "The Skier" and thesis of "Growing Up Native" - these are needed on the final essays test 

Thursday and Friday

3C1
-element of fiction #3 - character
-"DB Cooper"

db cooper

the skyjacker

Homework
-read over your 3 elements of fiction - conflict, nemesis, character

Friday
-history Channel's DB Cooper

4U1
Thursday and Friday

-deductive and inductive paragraphs
-work on "Growing Up Native"

-Learn about inductive and deductive paragraphs here

Friday
-finish up "Growing Up Native"
-what is a paradox?

-introduction to Critical Approaches - reader response and formalistic - another building block of the course!

Read this article on new evidence as of August of this year - the case that never ends!

the original news report

Wed Sept 13

4U1
-the wonderful world of the—EM dash (and the - EN dash as well)
-what is narrative? (note)
-began a group reading "Growing Up Native"   

Midnight Oil

Sydney Olympics

tragically hip

Review of "The Interlopers"

Mon Sept 11

3C1
-note on conflict and 6 types
-began reading "The Interlopers" p. 41

Homework
-read over the 6 types
-DO NOT finish the story

4U1
-note on descriptive writing (p. 4 and 5, Reading and Writing)
-complete chart for "The Skier" p. 6

Homework
-finish the chart (except diction)
-keep memorizing your rhetorical devices

Friday Sept 8

3C1
-note on overview of Short Stories
-what is a pseudonym? note
-introduction of the short story "The Interlopers"
-D'Angela's guide to a successful year - handout

Homework
-get 2 signatures (due Tuesday)
-read over any material you'd like

4U1
-rhetorical devices ppt (handout and note)
-D'Angela's guide to a successful year - handout

Homework
-get 2 signatures (due Tuesday)
-read over rhetorical devices - they are the basis of the unit

And so it begins...Semester 1, 2017

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Parents, Guardians and Students: Here is my Phone Policy

D'ANGELA'S PHONE POLICY

One of the biggest detriments to learning today is the increased reliance and use of cell phones.  

I encourage you to speak with your child and to explain to them the importance of keeping their phone away and out of use during class.  I will quietly speak to your child if they are using their phone in class and will remind them it can negatively impact their learning and chance for success in the class.

However, at no point am I going to confiscate a phone nor will I continually interrupt the lesson and the flow of the class for a student who is more interested in their phone than the content of the class and has now made the choice to ignore my request.  It is simply not fair to the rest of the class. They will get one reminder a class.  If they choose to keep using their phone, that is their choice.  

I firmly believe this is a conversation for you to have with your child before semester 2 begins. 

Thank you in advance for your support.