English 12

Thursday I will be at school by 8:00-ish tomorrow. I will have doughnuts and coffee/tea ready.  1. Read two of the synthesis pieces from a past exam. 2. Let's take a deeper look at the synthesis part of the exam. First, some tips from the experts: see below. 3. Score some of the synthesis responses from students who wrote the exam. rubric:  https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/14_scoring_guides.pdf sample:  https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/exemplars/en_synthesis/en12-synthesis-samples.pdf Tips from the experts ie. people who have marked the exam for many years... The Synthesis Essay: Everything that pertains to the Stand-Alone text also pertains here. Most English teachers have students compare and contrast things now and then, but we would do well to teach this more directly. Essays with well-synthesized ideas have the connection between the works as their subject, and  use one text as the perspective from which to view the other. I tell my stu

Thursday 1. Finish your work on Memento and Memento Mori. Details for both are in Office 365. 2. We are in the computer lab today so that you can go here:  https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/ and plan/prepare for next week's exam. Here you will find an entry point into a practice provincial exam.  Everyone in the class is to do the same exam (2011-2012).  Everyone is to do the  e-exam  (so you can print your results) After you select e-Exam for 2011/12, you end up here: To enter the exam, just double-click the blue link for the 2011/12 exam. It will auto-fill the PEN and Session Password boxes for you.   After you select e-Exam for 2011/12, you end up here: IF you have already done 2011-2012, pick a different exam. If you have done all the sample exams, redo 2011-2012.  Regardless of whether you have previously completed a practice exam before or not,  do one e-exam in-class today, print your results and han

Thursday 1. Complete your Term 4 blog about essays every high school should read. 2. Complete the work on the short story Memento Mori - see below (Wednesday's blog post). 3. Complete the work on the film Memento - see below. 4. Go to:  https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/    - do some review for the Provincial exam. Wednesday 1. Complete the work below on the short story Memento Mori: As you listen/read the short story, collect 3 quotes: one each related to time, memory, and identity. Please don't write on the story - use Post-its to flag quotes. Create a new page in Office 365 - call it Memento Mori, in your assignment folder, type your 3 quotes. Make sure you label the quotes as "time" or "memory". Short story 3, 2, 1. Find an image that you think represents the story really well. Paste it onto the Office 365 page you created for the quotes. Next, you must sum up the story in 3 sentences - no analysis, just state what happened. For the 2