English 11

Friday I was at a district workshop again today. Here are the notes I left for the TOC. • Silent read for the first 10-15 minutes of the class • Work on their annotation for 20-30 minutes if they need to. • Individual poetry treasure hunt. Students will be searching for their own striking lines and phrases from famous poems. Send students to the Poetry In Voice online anthology in search of memorable passages: http://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poem-finder They should gather three passages from different poems . The meaning of the passage in its original context is less important than the power each student finds in it and the student’s ability to imagine each passage being put to use in a specific situation. If you wish, you can make this a “treasure hunt” assignment. Use the list of situations on the strips of paper; give each student a situation, and ask him or her to find three appropriate lines or phrases from the online anthology that could be of use in the context...

Friday We did a quiz today on the terms and devices related to essay writing. I handed out the criteria for the annotation of the piece about second chances. Monday will be the day to do the actual annotating on the article. At the end of the class we tried a couple of rounds of a new word association/knowledge game called Anomia. Thursday I was away on a field trip to UVic today. Here are the notes that I left with the TOC: Silent reading for first 10-15 minutes – they have their own non-fiction novel to read. Before reading the text – This will be the text students will annotate, but I have not been able to put the colour images on the network for Thursday’s class, nor have I completed the criteria sheet for this assessment. So… for today, they will simply get into the article and the annotating will be done in class Friday. Please remind them of the quiz tomorrow on essay terms and devices. The War on Second Chances Before reading: Google (use their phones) these t...