Focus on Friday!

Blocks A&D: I hope that you got a lot out of watching Blackfish in class over the last couple of days. If you did not finish the chart on examples of ethos, pathos and logos in the film, please finish that for Monday along with the CSI.

Block B: Again, what a fantastic work block today. Your level of focus and concentration were just awesome. This whole transformational narrative writing is a process, and you may find yourself working through some issues. I hope that you keep the end goal in mind - that you illuminate a transformatational event in your life. For Monday, please have a hard copy of your rough draft - double spaced - 2-3 pages in what you're aiming for.

Thoughtful Thursday!

Blocks A&D: Thank you for your thoughtful discussion today about whales and cetaceans in captivity - there are a lot of points of view on this! We will continue watching Blackfish tomorrow - so keep thinking about the persuasive appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos. There is no homework tonight!

Block B: Amazing levels of focus and concentration today! What a productive group you are. Here are the slides from today's class about essay leads and structure. I will give you the entire block tomorrow to continue the rough draft. You will need to have a HARD COPY in class on Monday for peer/self editing.

Walk Around Wednesday!

Blocks A&D: Logos, Ethos, Pathos and the art of persuasion. Hopefully you learned a few things from class today about the techniques that are used to influence us on a daily basis. If you did not finish the worksheet on logos, ethos and pathos - please do so for homework tonight!

Block B: In class today - we finished discussing the transformational narrative "Chicken-Hips" and then got started on the brainstorm of your own essay.

You showed me your brainstorm and tried to narrow down your event. I then gave you time in class to start the map of your transformational event. This is NOT designed to be an outline. Just the opportunity for you to organize your thoughts. Homework for tonight is to finish the map of your event for tomorrow's class - I will be checking to make sure it's done!

Terrific Tuesday!

Blocks A&D: I hope that you found the extra time to work on your drafts and get peer feedback valuable today! Tomorrow you will need to hand in your good copy (with visual), rough draft (with signs of revision) and your green criteria sheet.

Block B: Today we started to look at the personal narrative style of essay. This is the one that we recommend that you write as your Part D Composition on the Provincial Exam - so do yourself a favour and make some good notes!!! We didn't get a chance to finish up our second personal narrative example - so we will start with that tomorrow. Here are the slides that I went over in class today.

Another Sunny Monday!

Blocks A&D: It looks like you need a little more time to complete drafts on your What's in a Name? assignment. So you will get more time for drafts and peer editing tomorrow then hand in your finished product on Wednesday.

Block B: A wonderful work block today grade 12s! Your draft and editing should now be done and good copy due on Wednesday with your visual. The draft that I stamped or you emailed to me - should be fairly similar to your good copy. No major changes in content can be made - but minor ones in grammar, spelling, word choice etc. are fine.

Feel the Rain on Friday!

Blocks A&D: Thank you for all of your hard work in class today on your What's in a Name assignment. You will get time in class on Monday to continue work on the rough draft, along with some time for peer editing and your visual component.

Block B: Great work on those paradoxes today! I know that it is kind of a tricky concept to get your head wrapped around - but I had some good conversations with people trying to get at the truth of the contradiction. I hope that you take some time over the weekend to think about this a little more, and come on Monday, ready to continue your draft.

Thoughts on our First Thursday!

A BIG, warm, welcome back to all my studious Sharks!

Please check this blog regularly in order to keep track of your assignments for English.

Blocks A&D: If you did not get a chance to have your purple letter signed, please do so tonight and hand it in to me tomorrow. There were also some of you who did not finish your 21 Questions Survey. If you are one of those - please have that done for me as well.

I assigned your very first assignment for English 10 today. A creative writing assignment that is all about you - well all about your name. Please complete your pre-writing for homework tonight. This means research, interviews, asking questions, brainstorming etc. You will have time in class tomorrow for your rough draft.

Block B: Thank you all so much for your thoughtful responses to the 8 sentence starters. They have given me a lot of insight into how you would like our class to be structured this semester. If you did not get your green letter signed, please get that in to me ASAP. Homework tonight is to continue planning your Paradox assignment. You will get time in class tomorrow to start your draft.