Monday, February 15 - Friday, February 19

Friday

1. Identify the evidence of quality on the paragraph you wrote yesterday. Circle the standards description that best fits for your ideas, organization, word choices, conventions. Write a comment about where you point out something you think you did well, and something still need to work to improve. Hand in again.
2. Chart on the Canadian Voice - see template in the links section of this blog
3. Game to practice essay/non-fiction terms and devices for the exam


Thursday
We were in 506 today to complete our first in-class write.

1. 1. Read the text, "No Canada.” In paragraph form and in a least 150 words, respond to this prompt: Discuss Marche’s use of persuasive techniques in the text “No Canada.” Support your response with specific references to the text. The rubric for the response has been provided - read it carefully. Your completed response is due at the end of this class. You will not be able to take the response home to finish it.

Consider the following “tips

• use present tense

• don’t forget to include an example of parallelism

• 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” of writing

• 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

Wednesday

1. Exercise on parallelism - exchange with a partner and mark one from yesterday;review your corrections; put your work in your folder. 
2. Complete new exercise on parallelism
3. REMINDER: tomorrow you will be writing a paragraph (in-class) about a text that we will read. In your response you will analyze the author’s use of persuasive techniques (see below). 
4. For practice with the terms below, see how many of them you can find in the old “I am Canadian” ad.        Alarmist language                    Alliteration                  Analogy                      Anecdote                                 Attacks/praise             Bias           Cliches                                    Colloquial language    Emotive/loaded language         Exaggeration                Generalization  Humour                                   Hyperbole                   Inclusive language                   Imagery                                   Irony                           Metaphor                                    Pun                                          Rebuttal                      Repetition                               Rhetorical questions               Satire                           Sensationalism                        Simile                                      Specialist/scientific     Trivializing the issue                                                                       language

Tuesday

1. Embedding quotes hand-in today.
2. Exercise on parallelism - complete, exchange with a partner and mark; review your corrections; put your work in your folder.
3. Go over answers for yesterday’s Quizlet review sheet for essay/non-fiction terms and devices.
4. REMINDER: this week you will be writing a paragraph (in-class) about a text that we will read. In your response you will analyze the author’s use of persuasive techniques. Today we are continuing to look at examples of text responses so that you will know what a quality response looks like.
5. Choose new clock partners.
6. Elements of quality for a stand alone text. Go and sit with your 9 o’clock partner. Look at the examples projected on the screen and decide what the paragraph should score on a 6 point scale based on the rubric you were shown. 
7. On the paper copies of a paragraph that scored a “6”, write on the paragraph and identify the elements of quality we discussed when we did the scoring of the papers projected on the screen. Remember the rubric we looked at too.

Monday

1. Silent reading - banned book
2. 9 o’clock partners - last chance to finish embedding quotes: questions 8-11 - these should be completed for tomorrow and ready to hand-in.
3. Exercise on parallelism - complete, exchange with a partner and mark; review your corrections; hand-in your work
4. How to practice for the Provincial Exam - Quizlet demo
5. Quizlet review sheet for essay/non-fiction terms and devices
6. Stand alone persuasive literary texts - elements of quality. This week you will be writing a paragraph about a text that we will read. In the text you will analyze the author’s use of persuasive techniques. 
7. Alarmist language                    Alliteration                  Analogy                      Anecdote                                 Attacks/praise             Bias                            
   
               Citing precedent                      Cliches                                    Colloquial language    
   
               Emotive/loaded language         Exaggeration                Generalization
   
   
               Humour                                   Hyperbole                   Inclusive language                   Imagery                                   Irony                           Metaphor                                    Pun                                          Rebuttal                      Repetition                               Rhetorical questions               Satire                           Sensationalism                        Simile                                      Specialist/scientific     Trivializing the issue                                                                           language
8. Elements of quality for a stand alone text. Look at the examples projected on the screen and with your partner, decide what the paragraph should score on a 6 point scale based on the rubric you were shown.