Fri Sept 28

3C1
-make sure you are up-to-date with the 4 stories we have completed
-2 more stories then the test (test should be next week)
-peer-edited memo

Homework
-complete memo assignment, package it properly and submit it on Monday or Tuesday

4U1
-corrected the persuasive essay on the death penalty
-made notes on the editorial

Homework
-read pages 196,197 and 201,202 of Reading and Writing Strategies and make notes on the editorial as a writing genre

Monday and Tuesday
-editorials

Wed Sept 26

3C1
-worked on the short story "One of These Days"
-looking at next Thursday as a potential test day for our short stories unit

Period 2 - rough copy of memo due Friday
Period 5 - rough copy of memo due Thursday (because of football buyout)

4U1
-looked more at the rhetorical device of the short sentence
-practice test on rhetorical devices
-read "the Death Penalty: Justice For None"

Tomorrow
-quiz on rhetorical devices (15 or so fill in the blank questions)
-finish the essay "Death Penalty" 

Friday
-introduction to the editorial

Monday Sept 24

3C1
-overview of the memo assignment

Rough Copy due Friday September 28
Good Copy due Monday Oct 1

Homework
-work on the memo assignment

Tomorrow
-read "One of These Days"
-element of setting

4U1
-given the period to peer edit narrative/descriptive essay
-reviewed essay guidelines for packaging, good copy, page numbering, etc

Homework
-be sure "Forget Prince Charming" questions are complete
-fix up and prepare to hand in narrative for Wednesday
-skim through the wiki page on the story of David Milgaard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Milgaard

Tomorrow
-bring both Echoes and Reading and Writing Strategies
-correct "Forget Prince Charming"
-begin the essay "The Death Penalty: Justice for None"

Samantha, we can come up with due dates when you get back to school.  Just be sure to keep up with the essays we are reading in class from Echoes and Reading and Writing Strategies.

Fri Sept 19

3C1
-returned quizzes on short stories
-introduction to business writing (fact finding mission in Communicate book, pages 183-207)

Homework
-if you struggled on the first quiz, review material (either your elements of fiction or your homework questions on the stories - or both - and see where you went wrong)

Monday
-writing assignment #1 - the memo

4U1
-introduction to persuasive writing (handout)
-read "Forget Prince Charming" from Echoes and worked on the questions - there should have been enough time to complete them in class

For Homework
-complete rough copy for narrative assignment (remember to clear that kitchen table and use your writing toolbox)
-finish questions for "Forget Prince Charming" if need be

Monday
-peer edit narrative essay (2 marks will be lost off the application of the writing process if it is not completed for Monday)
-correct and complete "Forget Prince Charming"

Wed Sept 18

3C1
-corrected questions on "The Monsters Are Due..."
-quiz outline given - part a is matching, part b is short answer
-watched original Twilight Zone version of "The Monsters..."

Tomorrow
-quiz
-DB Cooper

4U1
-final analysis of "Snapshot: The Lost Lives of Women"
-introduced narrative/descriptive assignment (rough copy due on Monday, good copy due on Wednesday)

Tomorrow
-finish essay outline (rubric, ttolbox, brainstorm)
-introduction to persuasive writing

Tuesday Sept 18

3C1
-finished "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"
-answered questions on the story

Tomorrow
-correct questions
-watch the Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters..."
-define and apply setting to the story
-quiz outline and prep

Thursday
-quiz
-DB Cooper bio

Friday
-minor writing assignment

4U1
-defined paradox and oxymoron
-read "Snapshots"
-worked on questions (for homework)

Tomorrow
-finish and correct questions
-introduction to narrative/descriptive assignment

Thursday and Friday
-persuasive/argumentative essays

Monday Sept 17

3C1
-note on dialogue
-checked and corrected "DB Cooper" questions
-pre-reading vocabulary on the next story
-began group reading on "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Tomorrow
-finish the story

Later in the Week
-quiz on first 3 stories and first 6 elements
-writing assignment #1


4U1
-corrected rhetorical devices practice #2
-checked questions on "Growing Up Native"
-corrected questions and worked on identyifing rhetorical devices for the essay

Tomorrow
-"Snapshot: The Lost Lives of Woman" from Echoes

Later in the Week
-narrative assignment