Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Look up the following words before and write the definition beside where they appear in the story.

1. countenance

2. mantle (clothing)

3. officious

4. stoop

5. munificence

My last duchess

Monday, October 30, 2017

Week of October 30

3C1

Monday
-read and analyse Act 1, scene 5

Tuesday
-Act 1 review (2 handouts)

Wednesday
-watch Act 1

Thursday
-Act 2, scenes 1 and 2

**Quiz after the completion of Act 2 - its on Act 1, Act 2 and the info from the Introduction to R&J PPT

4U1

Monday
-quiz Act 1 AMFAS
-approaches to literature: archetypes

Tuesday and Wednesday
-poem "My Last Duchess"

Thursday
-AMFAS questions and work period

**Next week - two more poems and poetry quiz (probably Friday, Monday at latest)




Friday, October 27, 2017

Weekend Homework

3C1

-its a good idea to read over your questions from Act 1, scenes 1-4
-make sure all questions are done and that you have caught up on reading if you have missed any classes

**quiz after we finish reading Act 2

4U1

-editorials due today - Friday
-electronic copy must be submitted to dropbox on lms; its not working right now, so hold off and I will let you know when it is working - remember - it must be submitted to the dropbox in order for me to evaluate and return it 

-read and make notes for Act 1 of AMFAS
**quiz on Monday

Complete questions for "To His Coy Mistress"

3. Define, quote (from the poem) and explain how it develops an idea in the poem for each of the following:

allusion
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
simile
alliteration

4. According to the speaker, who is the villain of the poem? Why? How can he be stopped?

5.  Why would this be considered a carpe diem poem? Use reference from the poem?

BONUS MARK - WRITE DOWN THE LYRICS TO ANY SONG THAT FEATURES THE IDEA OF CARPE DIEM AND EXPLAIN WHY IT IS SUCH IN FRONT OF THE CLASS FOR A BONUS MARK ON MONDAY

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Week of Oct 23

3C1

-verbal visual assignments due (the really big assignment or RBA) Monday or Tuesday\
-Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet - all week

Evaluations in Romeo and Juliet:
Quiz after Act 2
Essay after Act 3
Test after Act 5

4U1

Tuesday
-peer edit essay
-MLA submission format
-what is a dramatic monologue? (note)

SUBMISSION ORDER FOR EDITORIAL

1. Good Copy using MLA format 
2. Works Cited Page - MLA format
3. Rough Draft
4. Brainstorming (chart is fine)
5. News Article
6. Peer editing Sheet
7. Rubric 

Editorials due - Thursday or Friday  - must be submitted to Turnitin electronically before I mark it

Wednesday and Friday 
-Poem #1

Thursday
-work period - editorial or AMFAS


Evaluations in Poetry Unit:
-Poetry quiz - after 4 poems
-Poetry group Presentation: Poetry Eras

Quiz Act 1 of AMFAS on Monday

Friday, October 20, 2017

Weekend Homework

3C1

-work on really big assignment - it's due Monday or Tuesday - you have had one and half classes to work on it, plus no homework over the last 10 days - only homework has been to work on the assignment!

4U1

-editorial - rough copy due Monday, good copy Wednesday

-reading AMFAS and working on the questions and making your notes as well - quiz on Act 1 on Friday Oct 27.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Week of Mon Oct 16

3C1

Monday
-introduce really big assignment, due next Monday or Tuesday
-finish in class media assignment, due at the end of the period or first hing tomorrow

Tuesday
-switch books
-note on colour connotations
-work on quotes for the verbal visual assignment

Wednesday
-ppt on Romeo and Juliet
-prologue to Romeo and  Juliet

Thursday
-work period for really big assignment

Friday
-reading Act 1, scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet

4U1

Monday
-finish ppt intro to AMFAS
-intro to editorial 

Tuesday
-work period on editorial, quiz on PPT on AMFAS

Wednesday 
-read Act 1 of AMFAS, hand out questions and reading schedule

Thursday and Friday
-watch AMFAS

Monday
-AMFAS reading period

Tuesday to Friday
-begin poetry unit - focus on the dramatic monologue and  4 poems
-in the poetry unit there will be a quiz and a group presentation on poetry eras