English 12

Friday Today is International Vestival Day  1. Story dice 2. poetry Kahoot - dadams@sd71.ca 3. extra poetry Kahoot -  https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry/2d92f584-99a8-47ce-b67a-42001c94b202 4. Quizlet reminder 5. Work on your monologue. Thursday 1. Creative writing fun: story dice 2. Poetry terms & devices: diction and dramatic monologues. 3.  http://www.monologuegenie.com/almost-16-monologue.html   Example monologues 4. Write a monologue - details in OneNote 5. Peer edit micro-fiction Wednesday Happy National Chocolates Day 1. Self-assessment of your stand alone "Alien/the Other" text response - do this in OneNote. You should have had a peer-assessment done on Monday. 2. A couple more sample micro fictions for you: Last bit of class time on the Micro fiction stories. Rubric etc. is in a document in OneNote/collaboration space - which is where you should put your story, on the page with the pseudonym you created Monday. Tuesday Re

Thursday 1963 - 2017 - 54 regenerations in 3.5 minutes:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbi-2OZMbxs 1. Who is the winner of the CBC poetry contest for 2017? Tally votes again? You said Lunar Landing yesterday. Why is this poem the most effective at showing us something about the human experience? 2. Poetry terms and devices. ABCs ballad stanza (straight outta Wikepedia!) a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines (a & c) have four metrical feet and the second (b) and fourth (d) rhyming lines have three metrical feet. All in a hot and copper sky!  The bloody Sun, at  noon ,     Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the  Moon . Coleridge,  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,  lines 111 – 114 The longer first and third lines are rarely rhymed, although at times poets may use  internal rhyme  in these lines. In mist or  cloud , on mast or  shroud ,          assonance! It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the  nig

Tuesday Last day to work with your collaborators on your Alien / Power structure inquiry - presentations will begin on Thursday. Quiz tomorrow - any questions about any of the terms??? Wednesday Quiz on short story terms and devices. Thursday Begin presenting power structure inquiries. Friday Complete power structure inquiry presentations - begin next unit! Creative writing! Warm-up play Fade-out http://www.languageisavirus.com/writing-games.php#.Wg5riLQ-dBw Today: Fun! Prizes! Flash Fiction Challenge: X Versus Z Another classic challenge,  of which I am a fan . Way this works is, below you will find two tables — X and Y! — and you will pick from those tables. That will leave you with a set of X versus Y — and from there, you will write a piece of flash fiction based on that parameter set.  Post OneNote collaboration space using your pseudonym(s). X Robots Vampires Monkeys Demons Pirates Kaiju Goblins Dragons Ghosts God

Monday Performance Task*:   • Individual - 1 written stand-alone text response paragraph (student choice which text, but must be one from the resource list)   • Individual or collaborative - 1 “creative response” to the unit inquiry questions with a focus on  difference and power structures  (examples of difference include: race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender).    Due date: week of November 14-16   - to be presented during class time in a seminar format.  Short story terms and devices Quizlet  https://quizlet.com/168944317/english-12-terms-and-devices-flash-cards/ Peer present Alien Profiles in small groups then self-assess... Michelle/Ethan/   Ben           Zach  / Celesta /Cameron Lindsay G/  Lindsay H /Gabby                                Kamryn / Saffron/Diana                     Ross /Sophie /Ella                     Avarie/ Isaac /Elijah Dawson /Jay/Nico                     Jared/Easton  /Braeden Tuesday Hug a Bear Day! Quick