Tempermental Tuesday

Blocks A&D: You've had your time to complete your outline - now it will be time to show me what you know! You will have one block tomorrow to write your essay. Use your time wisely!

Block B: Good work today on the synthesis paragraphs! Looking forward to seeing how you interpret the setting of these stories. Homework tonight to complete the assisted notes for point of view.

Mannerly Monday!

Blocks A&D: Today we started our journey towards literary analysis essay writing. You chose your poem last week and annotated it over the weekend. Now we are working on our outlines in class. This is an in class assignment - no parts of this go home. You will have one more block tomorrow to complete your outline and then we write our essay on Wednesday. There is no homework tonight!

Block B: Please finish the work from today's class for homework tonight, I'll be collecting:

1. The chart exploring the narrator's treatment by those around her
2. The questions after "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper"

Thornless Thursday!

Blocks A&D: Thank you for handing in the good copies of your free verse poems today. Your homework over the weekend is to FULLY annotate one of the Shane Koyczan poems that we watched/listened to in class. I'll be checking your thoughtful annotations on Monday!

Block B: Please finish the questions for "The Yellow Wallpaper" this weekend. We'll discuss 10 and 11 on Monday.

Willful Wednesday!

Blocks A&D: Tonight you are going to turn your draft into your good copy. The good copy should be typed or written in pen, please clearly label the poetic, figurative, and sound devices you've incorporated. You also need to hand in the peer feedback form, the reflection (that you'll complete in class) and the pink criteria sheet.

Block B: Mull over the story tonight - I know that there is a lot to digest. We'll start the real work tomorrow!

Take on Tuesday!

Blocks A&D: The rough draft of your Coming of Age poem is due tomorrow for workshopping! Bring a hard copy of your poem to class to get valuable feedback from peer editors. The good copy with evidence of revision is due on Thursday.

Block B: Homework tonight is the assisted notes on Setting - just the first page of the handout from class today.

Multicolour Monday

Blocks A&D: If you did not finish your childhood memories web, with sensory details - please do so for homework tonight!

Block B: Great class discussion today! No homework tonight!

Fabulous Friday!

Blocks A&D: If you did not finish your scavenger hunt in class today - complete it for homework - it is a good study guide. The quiz on Monday will cover: types of poems, figurative devices and sound devices.

Block B: In class today, we did a warm up Taboo game and then read "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. Homework this weekend is to complete the assisted plot notes that I gave out yesterday and questions 1-4 about the story. We'll discuss them on Monday.