English 12

Friday https://create.kahoot.it/details/shakespeare-or-rap/ecec99a2-7061-4c86-8805-3319b0d9fc4a 1. Novel reading time 2. Mark yesterday's multiple choice. 3. Peer-edit based on student number. 4. Re-write BENEATH your first draft! What grade do you think you should get based on rubric and examples? Explain WHY? 5. Hemingway introduction: Do people control their own future? The Lost Generation & "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Thursday I was supposed to be away today, but my appointment was cancelled at the last minute! Here are the notes that I had left for the TOC · Read the text "Hello Monster" and complete the written piece about the text. This work MUST be in OneNote by the end of today's class. NB some of the photocopies have more than just the "Hello Monster" text. Ask students to be sure they read the correct text! · Go to library to pick up the novel they want to read. The list is below. It is also in OneNot...

Thursday 1. Go over tiny exam? 2. Inquiry time - Inquiry should not be information retrieval... Wednesday 1. Informal language vs formal language: colloquialism, slang, etc. 2. Work on tiny exam #2 - go over tomorrow? OR 2. Inquiry time Tuesday You won't believe what day it is today...! 1. Go over pre-quiz. Identify terms to study. Do you want a quiz? 2. Please use the Inquiry folder I have placed in your personal folder in OneNote. I will check your work periodically and give you feedback. 3. Tiny exam - due tomorrow. Monday 1. Pre-quiz for drama terms. The purpose of this is so I can see which terms we need to work on, and which ones people understand already. 2. Work on tiny-exam#2 in OneNote/your folder/Provincial Exam - we will go over it in class on Wednesday. Note - the exam is not very tiny; it takes up a lot of space! There is a bit to read, but your answers will be quite tiny. 3.  Time for working on your Inquiry project. At the beginning of t...

Thursday What is you name in morse code??? 1. Pre-quiz on drama terms & devices. 2. Write your mini-inquiry proposal. This proposal is to be presented in class tomorrow to a small group including me.. It is worth part of the grade for the project. Wednesday 1. We will go over the tiny exam today. 2.  How to do pitch for your mini-inquiry. Your mini-inquiry proposal is due on Thursday:  Proposal Mini-Inquiry proposal What is your essential question? Please share why it is meaningful to you? What is your “authentic performance piece” going to be? You are responsible for finding one quality example of the type of work you want to do and showing it to Ms.  Adams   You are responsible for finding a rubric to evaluate your performance task and going over it with Ms. Adams   How will you make your learning   public ? What will you need to read, research, and study to help explore your essential question? What are your goal...

Monday Today is Fake Appreciation Day ! http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-6-Pointed-Paper-Snowflakes/ 1. Poem recitation options: video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEPJh14mcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyMS4qJ8NXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_QUhUPrF4 two voices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJ6aUB2K4g solo & live https://www.poetryinvoice.com/videos/alyssa-howard-fear-snakes-lorna-crozier 2. Tone mapping your recitation poem.   https://www.poetryinvoice.com/teachers/lesson-plans/tone-map/tone-list 3. Don't forget your Creative Writing Portfolio is due tomorrow. Tuesday 1. Pear Deck! poetry terms. 2. Work on your poetry recitation. 3. Your Creative Writing Portfolio is due today. 4. Quizlet - practice poetry terms.   https://quizlet.com/168944317/english-12-terms-and-devices-flash-cards/ Wednesday Hooray! It's December 20th.  And you know what that means don't you? It's...  Cathode-R...

Friday 1. Next week you have a poem recital to do. Today you should find a poem. Use only the Poetry in Voice website:  https://www.poetryinvoice.com/  The poem MUST be at least 10 lines long. 2. Paste a copy of your poem in OneNote. 3. See if you can find a video or audio recording of someone reading your poem. Start with the Poetry in Voice website videos: https://www.poetryinvoice.com/videos Thursday 1. Assemble the work for the Creative writing portfolio, including the personal reflection/self-evaluation in a single page in OneNote. There is a document in your personal OneNote folder that lists all the pieces we have done in class. There is also a rubric for how your portfolio will be assessed. 2. Make sure the first and second drafts of your memoir/personal narrative essay are in OneNote. Wednesday 1. Work on improving the draft of your memoir/personal narrative essay.  Due tomorrow, Thursday, December 14. Tuesday 1. Listen to some of yesterda...

Friday Happy National Christmas Tree Day! ASK ME ABOUT THIS! http://artsclub.com/education/digital-leap 1. Peer feedback on the memoirs. 2. Brush-up/complete your memoir. 3. Self-assess your memoir using the rubric and the sample memoirs. Identify where the evidence of quality is in your memoir. NB - This is an in-class piece of writing. Please do not work on it outside of class time. I have saved a copy of the work you have done so far.  4. Complete any other missing work for your creative writing examples in OneNote. Thursday 1. In-class write of a PNE/memoir Wednesday 1. Composition prompts. 2. Writing the senses. 3. Time to draft a setting description. 4. Rubric for tomorrow's in-class write is now in OneNote. Tuesday Happy (?) Kramusnacht!      In  folklore ,  Krampus  is a horned,  anthropomorphic  figure described as "half-goat, half-demon", [1]  who, during the Christmas season, pu...

Friday Today is International Vestival Day  1. Story dice 2. poetry Kahoot - dadams@sd71.ca 3. extra poetry Kahoot -  https://create.kahoot.it/details/poetry/2d92f584-99a8-47ce-b67a-42001c94b202 4. Quizlet reminder 5. Work on your monologue. Thursday 1. Creative writing fun: story dice 2. Poetry terms & devices: diction and dramatic monologues. 3.  http://www.monologuegenie.com/almost-16-monologue.html   Example monologues 4. Write a monologue - details in OneNote 5. Peer edit micro-fiction Wednesday Happy National Chocolates Day 1. Self-assessment of your stand alone "Alien/the Other" text response - do this in OneNote. You should have had a peer-assessment done on Monday. 2. A couple more sample micro fictions for you: Last bit of class time on the Micro fiction stories. Rubric etc. is in a document in OneNote/collaboration space - which is where you should put your story, on the page with the pseudonym you created Monday. Tue...