English 11 Homework for Friday, Jan. 30:

1. Finish your "The School Globe" MC and paragraph. 

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 29:

1. Please bring your completed document of BC English 10 Examinable Terms, each term's definition, and two examples each.

Also wear reasonable footwear and a jacket. We might take a walk tomorrow. The forecast is for fog in the morning, but sunny in the afternoon and 9 degrees. Mucho bueno!

We will also update our portfolios and get them ready to go home.

Also, if you have left any other handouts at home, please bring them tomorrow.

English 11 Homework for Thurs. Jan. 29:

1. "Finding the Name": Write an excellent paragraph on the question you were given. You can write too much: but you can also write too little. You need to be thorough, that is explain with references, but you do not have to write a two page paragraph.  Please write single-spaced, and approximately 2/3rds of a page, or a bit more.

Please check your binders again, and at home for any other handouts. I have not got everything back from some of you.

English 11 Homework due Wednesday, Jan. 28:

1. Have your "They Might Have Been Zebras" paragraph completed. Make sure you have done it well. Please finish it by hand on the lined paper you started it on.

2. Also, tonight, make sure that all the handouts I have ever given you, are in your binder, and bring them tomorrow so I can collect them.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 28:

1. Have your BC English 10 Examinable Terms document completed by Thursday. See past blogs for format.

2. Please make sure all the Handouts I have given you in this semester, are in your binder, as I will collect them tomorrow, after you finish your Synthesis Essay.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, Jan. 27:

1. Poetry Jigsaw: Finish all the work on your poem in your EXPERT Groups and be prepared to teach your poem. See the order below.

To prepare, do the following and take excellent notes (in your EXPERT GROUPS): 

a) Know your poem very well: look up vocabulary that you need to.

b) Do the MC - and know your literary terms

c) Do a thorough S.I.F.T. - and create some questions that will help your Jigsaw Group understand your poem better. (Your Jigsaw Group will be writing a paragraph on your poem also, after they have had their session with you).

d) And make sure, as an EXPERT that you have written the paragraph answer that you are asking your Jigsaw Group to do.

Tues: Teaching "They Might Have Been Zebras"              

Wed: Teaching "Finding the Name"

Thursday: Teaching "The School Globe"

Friday: Teaching "Station"  

English 10 Homework for Mon. 26 and Tues. 27:

1. BC Ministry of Education Examinable Terms for English 10:  Be working on this document... 

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9XbbzKvjHU9b01oeXR4MkUyVGc/view?usp=sharing

For each term do the following:

Term:

: definition 

: 2 or excellent examples that you understand                                                                     

 

English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan. 26:

1. Please follow the instructions in the Jan. 23 blog entry.

Bring everything on Monday.  You do not have to complete it all. Get a good start.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Jan. 26:

1. Enjoy your weekend : NO HOMEWORK!

 

 

English 11 Homework for Friday, Jan. 23:

1. Bring your Personal Edit Checklist Friday so you can do a good edit of your essay.  You will need to check every sentence for structure, every paragraph for development of your ideas, your examples and explanations, logic,vocabulary and spelling.

English 10 Homework for Friday, Jan. 23:

1. Literary Terms Document: Be studying some of these terms - not ALL of them of course, as many are for a higher level. Go on the BC Ministry of Education website and find the following:

Grade 10 Examinable Terms and Devices in Literature......print it out.

Start working on creating examples for each of the terms on this document. Do it neatly on a word-processor. 

Bring the completed work on Wednesday, Jan. 28.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 22:

1. Literary Terms Document: Start looking over this document regularly.  I will give you a test on some of the terms next week, and you will have to give thoughtful examples, not overused ones.

English 11 Homework for Thurs/Fri: Jan.23-24:

1. Be finalizing your ideas for your Values Document: Friday is an editing block. Make sure you bring your Personal Edit Checklist.

English 11 Homework for Wednesday to Friday, Jan. 21, 22, 23:

1. Values Document Countdown: Please return with your Portfolio contents, if you took the folder home. Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday(editing) you will be finishing this document. Make this last opportunity your best one.  

You must also have your Personal Edit Checklist with you these next few days.

English 10 Homework for Wednesday, Jan. 21:

1. Keep studying your Literary Terms so you will do better on the Provincial Exams. Find many examples and add them to your document. 

English 10 Homework for Tues. Jan. 20:

1. Study your Literary Terms so that you are better prepared for the multiple choice in tomorrow's Synthesis section of the Provincial. You will finish as much as you can tomorrow, and I will give you 20 minutes more on Wed.

English 11 Homework for Tues/Wed. Jan. 20/21:

1. Values Document: You should have your Portfolio at home tonight and tomorrow so that you are finalizing the ideas you are developing and/or adding to this personal, insightful essay: this assignment draws on some of your semester work, that will help you explain/show/develop what values you are developing.

English 11 Homework for Monday, Jan. 19:

1. Values Document: This will be completed by next Friday. You will have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to finish. I expect you to do a careful edit of your completed essay on Friday.  

Therefore, you should be working on this assignment over the weekend and finalizing your ideas, etc.

English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan 19:

1. Provincial Exam: Read and do the multiple choice on the exam I have given you.

2. Literary Devices: using your Literary Devices/Terms Document in your binder, review the following list of terms, write out the term, the definition, and give 3 examples for each: don't use the examples in your Literary Devices document, make up or find others.

List of Devices/Terms: cliche, allusion, metaphor, onomatoepia, irony, simile, contrast, understatement, assumption, hyperbole, alliteration, paradox, jargon.

ex. cliche: an over-used expression.                                      : laughter is the best medicine                              : brave as a lion                                                      : what goes around comes around

This should be word-processed on to a document with a Heading.  We will add more to it over the next two weeks. Bring this first section with you on Monday

English 11 Homework due Friday, Jan. 16:

Sherry returns her Inside Poetry text!!! 

1. Working on ideas, structure, examples etc. for your Values Document.

*You will have tomorrow, next Wednesday and Thursday to finish the writing of this document. Next Friday you will be editing your work. 

Use this weekend to help you get ready for this - and, yes, you can take your portfolio (with all the semester's work in it) home for the weekend; but bring it back on Monday. The rest stays in class. Bring your final outline with you on Wednesday.

Sherry brings her book back tomorrow...........................

English 10 Homework due Friday, Jan. 17:

1. Be thinking about other aspects of your life, character, experiences, feelings, values, understanding of the world, others, nature, etc,...that you might be able to write about in the next Personal Essay. I will choose a prompt for you all to do.

Monday, we will be starting a new Exam and complete the readings and multiple choice.

Those of you who are away on Friday on the field trip, please do the Provincial Exam multiple choice, for the article, the poem, and the short story, that I gave you Thursday. Bring it in on Monday.

English 11 Homework for Thurs/Fri Jan. 15-16:

1. Values Document continued: You may come with an outline of the next part of your writing: BP(s) of 6 x 8 bullets. 

Please read the assignment criteria again, on the long, buff-coloured sheet, and the January 9 entry, that is also on the board. 

Don't be vague, give rich worldly examples that are developed, review and use work from your Portfolio, ... etc.

English 10 Homework for Thursday, Jan. 15:

1. Prompt #2: Be working on the Outline for this personal essay so you are ready to write it tomorrow. You will finish this essay by the end of the block. You may have the same Outline structure as the last one:  

*Introduction : 4 bullets x 4 words each

*2 - 3 Body Paragraphs: 6 bullets x 6 words each

*Conclusion: 4 bullets x 3 words each

 

English 11 Homework for Wednesday, Jan.14:

Please note - I've made some changes...

1. Be working on your ideas and written expression for your Values Document, that you will be working on in class, on Thursday and Friday.

2. Tomorrow I will give you a poem that you will do multiple choice for, and a paragraph analysis.

Gabriel, Sherry, Gerry, Lucas, and Brady: My records show me that you have not returned your Inside Poetry texts. Please bring them tomorrow. Thanks!

English 10 Homework for Tues./Wed. :

1. Work on an outline for the next Personal Essay prompt, due for writing in class on Thursday: write Prompt #2 if you wrote #1 last year in my class. Write your choice of #1 or #2 if you did not.

Prompt #1: People's lives can be enriched throught their connection with nature.

Prompt #2: Our toughest struggles can be with ourselves.

***You will write this essay on Thursday and finish it by the bell!

Alert: D Block: Samantha, Daniel, Jerome, Nicolas, you must finish your Rebecca/Street Mislaid by the end of lunch tomorrow. I will be in my room by 7:30 am tomorrow.

 

English 11 Homework for Monday, Jan. 12:

1. Values Document: you really need to be developing ideas, making notes at home on your computer, and reflecting to continue developing this in-class assignment. Be prepared to continue writing Monday. Yes, you may have an outline for the next BP(s) of 6 x 8 bullets.

2. Revised for Tuesday: Read the poem "Railway Club Blues", and do the multiple choice.  

English 10 Homework for Monday, Jan. 12:

1. Block D: Reread "Great-Aunt Rebecca" and "The Street That Got Mislaid." Read the Synthesis Question and create an outline to write on Monday and Tuesday.

2. Block A: Reread "Great-Aunt Rebecca" and  "Tamar." Read the Synthesis Question and create an outline to write on Monday and Tuesday

Both A and D Blocks: you may have the following components for your Synthesis Outline for Monday:

- Introduction: 4 bullets x 4 words each

- 2 - 3 Body Paragraphs: 6 bullets x 6 words each

- Conclusion: 4 bullets x 3 words each    

           

 

English 11 Homework for Friday, Jan. 9:

Review your Portfolio tonight, at an easy pace,  to remind yourself of where you have been this semester in English. Everything we have read, talked, and written about can help inspire you in this very personal assignment.

...From the horses who returned to their companionship with man, after he almost annihilated nature with his bombs,... to our increasingly man-made destruction of the biosphere that created us, and is the only thing keeping us, and all species alive,...to the stories of young boys and what they learn when they are living in war zones,... to a dystopian state that shows us how mindless we can be, but also how much courage we really have to recognize the truth, to change ourselves, and to change the world,... to poets who push against the powerful forces that would prefer a "cement continent" promoting "imbecile illusions of happiness" to keep us "happy" and "free",... and, of course, to poets who remind us we must be "faithful to each other" on this "darkling plain",  if we want to turn the tide and create a world that gathers us together into "a bright girdle furled", "a land of dreams" that is "so beautiful, so new" we can call it home.

You are the protagonist, now. It is your world now. Who are you? And where will you take us? How and Why? Your values will direct you.

English 10 Thursday night Homework for Fri:

1. Read the poem "Great Aunt Rebecca" and do the multiple choice questions.

2. Read the short story that comes after it and do the multiple choice.

2. Look up any words/literary terms that you don't know, before you answer any of the multiple choice in the poem and the short story. 

English 11 Homework for Thurs/Friday:

1. Read the Handout: Values Document that I gave you today. Read it carefully so you are working on the elements of this multi-paragraph personal reflection on your values. 

The last sentence of the Handout explains what you can bring tomorrow, (if you have more you may bring it but follow the 6 x 8 for BPs.

You are to take the time to do it well. You will be writing it next week and the week after.

English 10 Homework for Thursday/Friday:

1. Work on your ideas for tomorrow and Friday's essay.  The prompt "People's  understanding of the world changes over time," will be written over the next two days.  This is an essay that can be in the first person because you are a part of it.  Therefore I expect the pronouns "me" and "I" and "mine" etc. You will have personal and other examples in your essay.

Try not to be colloquial. It reduces the effect of your writing.  If you use it, you must have a purpose for using it. ie, quoting something you or someone said.

 You will have no notes with you tomorrow and Friday. So do your thinking and organization at home.  Please remember not to use colloquial language of the words like "mom and dad": and no "you."

This is a 4 to 5 paragraph essay.

Work on this tonight so you are ready tomorrow.

English 10 Homework for Tues. to Thursday:

1. Provincial Prompt Essay: You should be working on the ideas for this essay. See yesterday's entry (Monday) for a reminder. 

You will be writing this Thursday and Friday without notes!!

English 11 Homework for the next few weeks:

Mike, Jane, Terrina: Return your novels, please.

1. Values Document: You should be working on this daily, as it will require you to examine and reflect on the values you are building in your life. This is a serious examination of yourself as a moral character. 

We have read many texts, both fiction and non-fiction: poetry, novels, short stories, articles, and psychology. In all of these texts, people are deciding to behave, develop, change (or not) according to the environments they are living in and the forces and the people they must grapple with. Look at all these again, take your portfolio home and start seriously considering, how you want to be as a character in the world.  What values will guide you?  What values guide you now? Do you follow them?  Do they show in how you treat others, yourself, the environment? How would you compare yourself with some of the situations and characters we have met and considered in this course?  How are you similar or different?  How will you affect the world?

How will you grapple with a world in trouble, when times get difficult?  Who will you be, how will you respond and why?

Look at yourself now, and how you are learning and changing; what do you want and how will you achieve those dreams. How will your desires and choices affect others and the world.  

What does it mean to be a "moral citizen"? 

You will begin this essay in class on Thursday and Friday.  You may bring a section of an "acceptable outline" for this: The Introduction (6 x 6) and a body paragraph or two (6 x 8) for each BP.

English 11 Homework for Tuesday, January 6:

1. Values Document: You should be thinking/working on the content of this very personal and very well-developed, thoughtful assignment.  It will be written in class over the next few weeks. 

1. Be prepared to finish your Synthesis Essay tomorrow on "In Goya's Greatest Scenes" and "The Unknown Citizen."

2. Those of you who have not returned your novels, please bring them with you tomorrow: Sherry, Dylan, Jane, Mike, Terrina.

English 10 Homework for Monday, January 5 to Thursday, January 8:

1. Work on your Provincial Personal Essay: 'People's understanding of the world changes over time." You should be thinking about how this prompt applies to you. As time passes, people often change the way they think. They may learn new information or have experiences that alter the way they see the world.  You should be personal in your response, as it will be easier for you to write what you know. However, you may use other examples as well. Make sure you are explaining your examples clearly and engaging the reader.

The instructions on the exam are as follows: "You may be persuasive, narrative and/or descriptive. You may use ideas based on your own experience, the experience of others, your reading, your imagination, or from any aspect of your life."

You will be writing this at the end of the week, in class, with no notes.