Monday, February 20 - Thursday, February 23

Thursday
1. We will be in the computer room working on the final draft of your memoir.

Wednesday
HINK PINKS!

1. Do you want to go to the Green Thumb production next week?
2. Reading time? Possible books from the library...

3. What is a sentence??? https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/sentence/what-is-a-sentence.htm 

Sentence Fragment Practice 

___ 1. While they were gone to the grocery store. 

___ 2. Going to Florida and to Jamaica for Spring Break. 

___ 3. Before the children have to go to bed. 

___ 4. They are beautiful. 

___ 5. Three of us went on the retreat. 

___ 6. Because she had gone to her friend's house late at night without asking for permission. 

___ 7. She won't eat them. 

___ 8. I don't know when she's coming back. 

___ 9. Since they left early in the morning. 

___ 10. Mike doesn't know. 

___ 11. Don't go into that room alone. 

___ 12. After you return from the store. 

___ 13. Because education is important. 

___ 14. We are leaving at 3:00. 

___ 15. Since she was dressed in white. 

___ 16. While he is planning to be in Europe for the summer. 

___ 17. There is nobody to help her. 

___ 18. They are running four miles every morning. 

___ 19. The importance of eating a healthy diet. 

___ 20. When they arrive tomorrow. 

Need more help with recognizing fragments? fragments

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/5/18/38/

3. Complete your response to "Ordinary Life." - only another 15 minutes max.
RUBRIC https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/14_scoring_guides.pdf
4. Do the multiple choice questions. 
5. Blending quotes - how to...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSDZeSl_Yc




Tuesday

HINK PINKS!
1. Edit quiz #1 based on Memoirs.
2. Mark quiz.
3. Stand alone text from Provincial Exam - read poem and write the response. Before you hand-in your response, review the rubric and decide how you would score your own response. Explain why you believe it deserves to be classified as superior, or proficient, etc.  based on your response. I will give it back to you tomorrow with a score out of "6". You will have a chance to mark your own multiple choice questions tomorrow and discuss your response to the poem.
rubric for scoring the response:
https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/14_scoring_guides.pdf

Monday

HINK PINKS!

1. Term reading assignment - time to get reading your book.
2. "Return" the memoir assignments. Explain what happens if I haven't received yours yet.
3. Code sheet for errors.
3. Look your memoir over and write some feedback to my feedback. What is/are your goal(s) for your final copy?
3. Final copy of the memoir is due on Thursday, February 23. Submit it to Office 365 BUT DO NOT ERASE YOUR FIRST COPY. Cut and paste a new version above (ie. further up the page) the old one.
4. Do you like The Oatmeal? http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon
Edit sheet for the memoir. Here are some of the common errors in grammar conventions I found in your writing. You fix the errors. We go over the errors as a class today. Tomorrow, there is a quiz featuring different sentences with the same types of errors.
What is a sentence??? https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/sentence/what-is-a-sentence.htm 

5. Review the structure of the Provincial Exam.
6. For the last 30 minutes today, you will try the "stand alone text" section of an old exam to see how you do. Here is the rubric:
https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade12/en/14_scoring_guides.pdf
Before you hand-in your response, review the rubric and decide how you would score your own response. Explain why you believe it deserves to be classified as superior, or proficient, etc.  based on your response. I will give it back to you tomorrow with a score out of "6"
You will have a chance to mark your own multiple choice questions tomorrow and discuss your response to the poem.