English 12

Thursday Puzzling Prof A famous one: From what word can you drop the last four letters without changing the pronunciation? Hint: There is also a three-letter homophone for the original word. 1. Editing practice based on Plath response. 2. Peer editing of the Term 1 banned book assignment. 3. Look at a few more sample synthesis essays. Score them. Discuss differences between a "4", "5" and a "6". 4. Co-construct criteria for a synthesis essay. Wednesday No class on Wednesday due to post-secondary day. Tuesday Puzzling Prof The 10-letter name of something you might order at a Chinese restaurant consists of letters that all appear in the second half of the alphabet (N to Z). It is a common food with a multi-word name. What is it? 1.  http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/03/lit-up-reading-list.html    &  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOkJnRxGsE &  http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/08/cbc-books-reading-lists-1.html 2. Self-reflection - wo...

Wednesday Brain Food Week! Brain Food Week! Can you think of a word that is pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized? Reminder that the Plath response good copy is due tomorrow. Hand in draft and feedback with good copy.  1. Last day of class reading time for your banned book. 2. KAHOOT - short story terms! 3. Essay worksheet #2 - show me essay w/s #1 4. Complete reading Faking It. During reading: thinking about "fakes" and "fakery" -  context, purpose, audience. Yes, another t-chart! Fakes/fakery in The Bastard vs Faking It. After reading Venn Diagram of the two texts - Fakes/fakery. 5. Yellow daily evidence of learning - complete self-assessments  - 2 t-charts on The Bastard 6. Synthesis essays - what are they and why should you care...  Tuesday Every so often Blogger behaves strangely and I cannot fix it. If there is text that you cannot see, highlight it and you will be able to read it.  FASHION SHOW EMAIL *** Please...

Thursday Phew! Found another one... 1. We are in a computer lab today. Read that banned book! Only 7 more days. 2. Complete the Focused Feedback on the Plath responses. 3.Using your Assignment Log write down an area of improvement you want to address in this response - pick one simple thing like: reduce run on sentences. 4. Identify the evidence of quality on your own response. Pay particular attention to the SAMPLE you looked at yesterday:         a) prompt about "the divided self" has clearly been discussed         b) introduction and conclusion         c) blended quotes  - ideally 3 or more         d) the use of literary/poetry terms/devices - should have mentioned at least 2-3 5. Quiz on The Bastard - towards the end of class 6. Show me the 2 t-charts for The Bastard. Attach to Daily Evidence of Learning Sheet. 7. Time to rework your Plath response based on the feedback you receive. ...

Thursday Hink Pink [ last one for this week!] :  The Great One’s personal watercraft. PS to yesterday's new word - have you used snafu in a sentence yet? 1. A few minutes of reading time. 2. Discussion of "In Plaster" - going to have to keep it brief! 3. Computer lab time: write a stand alone response to a Sylvia Plath poem. I am going to ask you to limit your discussion to only one poem because this is only a 150 - 300  word  [approximately]  response. If you wish, you can find a poem of Plath online, or you can discuss the ones we covered in class: Metaphors, Mad Girl's Love Song, Mirror, In Plaster. The prompt for the response is "Discuss the image of the 'divided self' which Plath uses in her poetry. Remember 3 levels of reading, discuss at least three poetic techniques, blend quotes, have a hook, use PEE, mention poet's name, name of poem,... Wednesday Hink Pink: NO REGERTS, or some other body-ink mistake. 1. A few minutes read...

Thursday THIS WORK SHOULD BE IN YOUR FOLDER: Analysis of Metaphors: the contrast between her images and her tone. THIS WORK SHOULD ALSO BE IN YOUR FOLDER :  Mad Girls Love Song - research at least 6 different sources of on-line opinion/analysis in pairs - annotate your poem copies - move to a group of 4 to defend/discuss your found views of the poems - 3 MIPs about poem, 2 fig lang, message about life Fill in the daily evidence of learning. “Mirror” Working with clock partners on a close reading of the poem. Follow the hand-out, looking at diction, figurative language, sound, form, speaker, etc. with different partners in order to arrive at a better understanding of the poem. Time to work on refining your Vermette response or your SloMo response. You have received credit for both; however, I am only taking in one for a grade /30 - you pick, but I don’t recommend handing in your first draft. Wednesday Mark poetry test. Two people have to leave the room because they ...