Tuesday, February 9 - Friday, February 12


Friday
At the beginning of the class there was some time to read your banned book. Next, there was some time to work on the embedding quotes sheet. For the remainder of the class, we did a review game to practice essay/no-fiction terms and devices.

Thursday
Here are the notes that were up on the screen for today's class. We did not end up doing item #2.

  1. 3 O’Clock partners - continue working on quote blending 10 minutes. You should have completed to the end of question 7 by today.
  2. Parallelism - return work from yesterday. Questions? Do the new exercise and then give it to a classmate to mark. Review your corrections. 
  3. Pardon Me I'm Canadian - work in the folders is incomplete - if not shown to me tomorrow during silent reading, you are to report to Room 100 at lunch Monday or Tuesday to complete it.
  4. Rick Mercer - I found little to no evidence of this work in the folders. 
  5. Rick Mercer - skim read backgrounder on blog - NEW! provide 10 facts in point form as evidence you have read and understood the article.
  6. Rants: Refugees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLipayUNzg ; Online comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZ0fpLFNVI  - During viewing/reading: thesis/message stated in a complete sentence; audience explain how you know who the audience is based on Mercer's word choices, his topics, the form he uses to deliver his message, his style ; persuasive techniques (at least 3 with examples/quotes. Consider his words rather than the visuals in your analysis.
  7. Rick Mercer work that is incomplete tomorrow will result in your name being forwarded to Room 100 for lunch time tomorrow.

Wednesday
Here are the notes I left for the TOC
1.       Silent reading of their banned book for 15 minutes
2.       Worksheet on parallelism. Once they have completed both sides, they should attache a piece of their own lined paper. On it they should come up with a definition for parallelism. They should also provide an example of faulty parallelism (not one used on the worksheet) and they should correct the bad example. Once everyone finishes sheet, please redistribute and mark. Recollect sheets.
3.       Using the netbooks, students should: read the backgrounder on Rick Mercer that there is a link to on the class blog. Next, they should view the 2 rants (links on class blog) and for each one, they are to write on their own paper: what the thesis/message is in the rant (complete sentence); what persuasive techniques are being used and examples for at least 3 in each rant (at least 6 are being used in each one); who is the intended audience and how do they know – insufficient to say the audience is tv viewers, or Canadians – I want specifics on who the intended audience is  based on: the format/form; what’s included/excluded; the word choices /level of language; the relationship established with audience; the message; the language techniques, etc. The 3rd rant is a photocopy. They may NEATLY annotate (write all over) their copy and give me the same info as they did for the video rants: audience, persuasive techniques, thesis/message. Remind students to focus on what Mercer says as opposed to the visuals in the video rants.

4.       On the blog, in the links section, there is a chart called Is there a Canadian voice? Students are to begin tracking the texts we have read to answer inquiry question I gave them last week. They may use the chart I have put on the blog, or they can create a similar one on their own. They must provide me with a typed copy of the chart at the end of the unit. They should begin work on it today. To date we have ‘read’ the following texts: Pardon me, I’m Canadian, Naked romp on sacred ground leaves 2 from Saskatchewan stuck in Malaysia, Born to Rant (Rick Mercer piece), Rants 1-3 (these can be put on the chart separately or as one item – their decision). 
Tuesday
Today we reviewed bias techniques and began looking at Rick Mercer's rants as examples of persuasive texts.
Malaysian tourist story
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/naked-romp-on-sacred-ground-leaves-2-from-saskatchewan-stuck-in-malaysia-1.3104882


Rick Mercer backgrounder
http://www.markcardwell.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CAp18_19_20_RickMercer.pdf

Rick Mercer -
rant #1 Refugees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLipayUNzg
rant #2 Online comments   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZ0fpLFNVI 
rant #3 Careers - photocopy

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