Tuesday October 4

4U1
-test outline given
-read and analyzed "Cellphones"
Homework - finish worksheet on "Cellphones"

-tomorrow: We will discuss the following:
1.  What is the connotation of each of the 5 listed agencies of torment and misery in paragraph 1?
2.  Write down 3 allusions used in the essay?  What is the purpose of each allusion?
3.  What is the irony of the last line?

Test: Thursday

3C1
-finished "Barney" and corresponding worksheet
-test outline
-review game 
-formal review handed out

-tomorrow - review and introduction to group assignment

Test: Thursday   

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