English 11

Thursday Essay structure - review.  DUE TODAY!  essay practice writing an introduction. Wrap-up parallelism. Move on to Transitions. Theme notes.  Poem -  "Those Winter Sundays"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZnt5ZL4Xk  -  After reading - close reading of a poem.  Wednesday Essay structure - review. DUE TODAY! essay practice writing an introduction. Establish "Clock partners." Poem - Those Winter Sundays  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZnt5ZL4Xk  -Before reading - predict, based on title, what poem will be about. During reading - Listen, sketch, draft. View video of the poem. After reading - close reading of a poem.  THEME/BIG idea about life? Tuesday Cousins - Self reflection on the during reading chart. Essay structure - review and essay practice writing an introduction. DUE TOMORROW! Monday GOAL SETTING FOR NEXT WRITTEN PIECE Quiz on Cousins. What is the difference between a thesis and a th...

Wednesday Parallelism practice. NEW! Practice parallelism with a friend @  http://www.chompchomp.com/structure01/structure01.01.htm   “Cousins” finish reading this story. “Cousins” finish reading the story.  During reading, create a t-chart (like the one you see below)  track Joe's emotions from scene to scene.            Scenes                            l                      Joe's emotions                                                        ...

Friday New!  parallelism practice #2.  Residential Schools - backgrounder - complete  “ teaching ”  your partner about you section of the text. Join together with another pair and prepare a 3,2,1 summary: 3 points  “ Here ’ s what we know ” ; 2 points  “ So What? why is this important? what does this mean? how do we  interpret  this info?;  “ Now what ”  predictions for the future, an implication, or a question for further study. English 11 - terms and devices handout - categorize some more terms, and play a game. Thursday Reminder - Rock Bottom theme response was due YESTERDAY. Please remember to hand in BOTH copies (draft 1 & 2, and the rubric). Parallelism practice - questions? marked? Practice #2.   Please show me the completed work on the news article about Empathy and Stress that was done in class Wednesday, February 10 when I was on a field trip. It should be kept in your folder. Residential Schools...

Friday No one really felt like doing the Story Wars today, so we opted to move that to Monday and look at some essay/non-fiction terms and devices and then play a game to go over the terms again. Thursday No class due to NIC visit. Wednesday I was away. My notes for the TOC will be pasted in below. 1 2.        Reading the article “When stress rises, empathy suffers.” On their own lined paper they have a before reading, a during reading and an after reading activity to do related to the text. Provide them with the title and before reading predict a question that the article might answer. During reading they are to label problems that the article presented "P" and solutions presented with an "S". They can do this directly on the article. When the article is  read, they are to write out three quotes that they have selected because they related to "Rock Bottom" and/or "The Larder.” They must explain how the quote relates to the other two texts...