Monday, September 21 - Friday, September 25

Friday
Groups were formed at the beginning of class so that you could discuss the first part of the short story "The Painted Door." Your understanding of the characters of John and Ann was good when I went around and asked you to describe them in one word. For Monday, please ensure that you have finished reading the story as there will be a quiz on it. Also, you are expected to have completed the character charts for Ann, John and Steven.

 Thursday

 We began our exploration of Sinclair Ross' story The Painted Door by going on to a site called Today's Meet. There we explored the question of isolation and how we all felt we would cope with it if it were necessary. Having spent some time earlier in the class practicing embedding quotes, there wasn't a ton of time left to tackle the story. However, please have read to the end of page 372 and start the character chart for Ann. We will go into seminar groups tomorrow in order to discuss this very Canadian story tomorrow.
Wednesday
I collected up the final draft of the response today. Afterwards we did the editing quiz and marked it.

 Tuesday
I was away today. I asked the TOC to give you time to work on your final copy of the response to No Canada. In addition, you were to ensure you got a Canadian novel from the library for silent reading. Finally, don't forget to add No Canada to your chart about the Canadian voice.

 Monday
I returned the written responses to No Canada and I outlined some of general strengths and areas needing improvement that I noticed.
Things to remember for your final draft:
• use present tense
• when you refer to the author, use his last name
• ensure you have fully understood the persuasive techniques and are using the correct term
• remember your task: discuss persuasive techniques (not your opinion on the national anthem)
• avoid offering your opinion on whether or not you think the author "did (or didn't) do a good job"
• remember P E E x 3: make a point; offer an example (embedded quote); discuss your point and example further
• review how to embed quotes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSDZeSl_Yc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pedp6_WlVsM

BTW:
What do those letters on your writing mean?

A – apostrophe is missing

r o – run-on sentence

f – fragment or incomplete sentence

sp – spelling mistake

H – homophone or homonym error (ex. their, they’re, there )

T – use a transition or change your transition word

wc – word choice / the way you are using the word is incorrect or awkward

awk – your sentence or phrase is awkwardly worded

C – use a capital letter


lc – use a lower case letter

I handed out an edit sheet with some easy to fix errors that I noticed were popping up frequently. We went over the errors. There will be a quiz on these "quick fixes" tomorrow.

The final draft of this response is due on Wednesday.

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