English 12

Synthesis essay Thursday Definition of a completed first draft: a complete version of your work that meets the criteria for the assignment, that is spell-checked, grammar-checked, typo-checked, capitalization checked. If your essay has too many errors, I will not be able to give you feedback. 1. Essay Wednesday 1. Continue work on synthesis essay. Tuesday 1. Work on synthesis essay. Monday 1. We will finish up with the poem Consummation of Grief. 2. Review some details of the synthesis essay. 3. Write your thesis and create a plan for your essay. 4. Start writing your essay. First draft is due on Friday, March 2.

Friday 1. Make sure a good copy of your stand alone (literary) text response for either SLOMO/SHLFM or Bastard/Complainers/Roll the Dice is in OneNote - it is out of /18. 2. Check over essay w/s #2 as a class. 3. KAHOOT - poetry terms & devices. https://create.kahoot.it/details/grade-12-poetry-terms-devices/db111362-d064-41cf-bf00-0e0769ecf2b9 4. Analysis - Charles Bukowski's "The Consummation of Grief." 5. Make sure work on Faking It and What do you see when you look at my facebook are both complete. Thursday 1. Avoid "evaluating/judging" a text you are responding to. Assess the effects of devices on the poem and the audience but avoid passing judgement on whether or not you think the author has "done a good job." 2. Final copy of a stand alone text response to either SLOMO/SHLFM  or  The Bastard/Complainers/Roll the Dice is due tomorrow, Friday, February 23. 3. Essay worksheet #2 - Introductions. 4. Make sure the work on ...

Friday 1.2:15 - 2:30 First 20 minutes  - Read your novel and make contributions to Parlay:   https://go.parlayideas.com/classes/8a0e871f-c65e-4cc6-8ff9-3dcb1eb00e7d/roundtables/online/d0f0478f-696b-4713-ae3a-6de9a4a1e5c7?invite_code=TKe2zQKQN   - This is for a quiz replacement grade - don't forget variety of responses: analytical/interpretive, evidence, connection, and to a lesser extent, question.  When you make a point, remember PEE - point, example, explanation. 2. Complete the quote blending practices in OneNote. 3. At 2:30, get together with your team mates and formulate a defense of your poem as the one that BEST shows that controlling one's life is about regulating impulses and emotions. You will have 5 minutes to defend your poem. You must use up all 5 minutes. Remember: analysis/interpretation, evidence, connections. We will begin defenses at around 2:45. 4. 2:55 - 3:25 Paragraph response to either The Bastard or one of the poems. The prompt is:...

Thursday 1. Round-table discussion about SHLFM and SLOMO. Be prepared with your ideas about these two texts. We will use the discussion in place of a quiz on these texts. You will be scoring points for your contributions to the discussion. We will try Parlay first, if that doesn't work, we will use the coloured cards from last week's debate. Here is the link to Parlay... https://go.parlayideas.com/classes/8a0e871f-c65e-4cc6-8ff9-3dcb1eb00e7d/roundtables/online/d02cdce0-67b7-49d9-a5d2-b90c2fb119af?invite_code=C10Q9CuJN We will start the discussion with the following questions: A. Hemingway the writer: find a passage that illustrates his "principle of the iceberg" B. SLOMO - how did he get "lost"in the experiences of his generation? Check out this cool thing! Wednesday 1. Please have your final draft of the response to "Hello Monster" in OneNote by the end of class. 2. Carry-on with the calendar of events for this week. ...