English 12

Thursday Take a pencil to lunch... 1. Time to get cracking on that essay! Wednesday 1. Reading time - give me your essay practice sheet from yesterday for feedback. 2. Thesis development for tomorrow's essay. 3. Edit sheet based on text responses? Quiz will be next week. 4. Mark poetry quiz? Help for writing a thesis statement: A good way to create a thesis is to come up with a question that you can answer about the book and its film. What are the author's views about society; does the film capture this? How does the author deliver their views about society; does the film do the same thing? A bad thesis statement will result in a bad essay with either too many ideas and no focus, or too few ideas and no depth/insight. For example: 1. Start with a question... •      Is the adaptation a straight or a loose interpretation of the novel?  2. Answer the question... Yes, it is a faithful adaptation because like the novel, it is in two parts. Initially its th

Thursday Today is Panda Day! 1. Mark the poetry quiz. 2. Sample Match? 3. Write your good copy of the reading response to a stand alone text (Vermette, Slomo, Log-Off/Steak) - place this version in your Assignment folder. Also, put your draft with the peer-feedback in your Assignment folder, but on a different page. If you don't know how to copy a page to another folder, just ask. Wednesday Today is World Consumer Rights Day! 1.        Poetry terms and devices quiz. The quiz has two parts: matching and a poem where you read and answer m/c questions. 2.        Complete all responses for Vermette, Slomo, Steak/Log-Off. Provide peer-feedback on 2 responses. Make sure your response is in the Collaboration space in Office 365.  Tuesday Happy Potato Chip Day! QUIZ - poetry terms and devices - WEDNESDAY - the form of this quiz will be MATCHING -  term with its definition. Approximately 25 questions. The essay about your novel [that was made into a

Thursday For your viewing pleasure: the world's smallest car chase scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwL3PEeE0sU Today you should ensure that you have completed the following responses and placed them in your assignment notebook online. 1. Response to a K. Vermette poem - prompt - beauty in broken things. 2. Response to SLOMO video - prompt about freedom and SLOMO being the guy who got away. 3. Response to a non-fiction article (Steak or Women online) - prompt is to discuss the use of rhetorical devices to persuade/manipulate the reader's opinion. REMEMBER TO TOUCH ON THE 3 levels of reading in each response. Wednesday                                                             without me, life would stop 1. Reading time. 2. When you get into the lab, copy-paste all of the stuff for your memoir from the collaboration space into your own notebook in our English 12 space. Add a page to your "assignment" section and title it memoir and the date 8