English 10

Today I assigned the following reading: read to the end of chapter 10 by tomorrow.

Then we took the following notes.

English 10 Notes on literary terms

1. Plot – the events of a story

Plot diagram (draw and label : introduction, initial incident, rising action, climax, conclusion [ denoument] )

Plot order

Chronological versus Flashbacks

Conflict

Internal versus External

Then students continued working on their short story assignment from last day (this story will probably be due at week's end).

English 12

We began by working on a creative poetry assignment. Click here.

Then we began looking at our final exam by looking at an example exam. I handed out both an example exam along with a list of English 12 Terms and Devices (which was taken directly from the Ministry of Education website).

English 10

Today we read quietly and then we began work on the short story assignment -- click here. I showed class the story that I wrote, as an example, and I was uncharacteristically proud of this one sentence from my story: "Doug Pfeiffer, his heart now beating faster, was SO preoccupied with the sensual touch of Beverly’s hand that he didn’t even think to say goodbye to his index finger."

We began working on this story. We will continue working on this next week.

No reading was assigned, although students should be on at least chapter 8 in their reading.

Oh, we also wrote a quiz on chapters 4-6 of The Chrysalids.

English 12

Today was our last day to work on our Ted Talk work. Ted Talk work is due on Monday.

Both at the beginning and the end of class, I highlighted the importance of the following: your TedTalk composition is NOT a research paper. Your composition must address your thoughts or opinions on the topic, as well as the important connections that you make with the topic (literary connections, connections with history, connections with contemporary issues).

English 12

We began class by reading a MacLean's article on the difference between lies and BS.

Then we continued our poetry work by reading the poem Sidewalk II. Students had time to scan the poem and identify figures of speech and other rhetorical devices.

We wrote out definitions for the following words: juxtaposition, pastoral imagery, and ambiguity.

We wen to the library second half to work on our Ted.com unit.

Ted work is due on Monday. Look at previous English 12 post to look at criteria and examples.