HOMEWORK: Due Thurs CANNED FOOD DRIVE! It’s our last chance to HELP OTHERS and WIN the COMPETITION! Here’s the link for your friends/family to donate online – – click here ===> Vancouver Food Bank Online Donation! Remember, they need to indicate that it’s to John Oliver School & to our class. The link will open to […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Tues We’re in SECOND PLACE (after Ms. Bassi) for the Canned Food Drive! Woohoo! So go through your cupboards and go ask you family & neighbours to donate! LP Unit #2 Test & Workbook check – Dec. 19th! If you need more practice help, come on MONDAY Poetry Terms – new flashcards – Finish the 3 terms under […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Friday LP Review – Complete the review in these steps: Step 1. Using one colour pen/pencil and without looking back at the lessons in Unit #2, try to do as many sections and questions that you can do. Step 2. Using a different colour pen/pencil, do the sections and questions you left, but this time […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Wednesday LP #17-19 LP Unit #2 Test & workbook check – Dec. 19th Poetry sheets – create flashcards for the first 6 terms under the heading “Sound Devices“. Try to write the definition in your own words and add an example with the definition to help you better understand and remember each term. Find […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Monday Food Drive!! Bring in your 15 points! Journal #5 – What is Critical Thinking and Why is it Important. Good copy! Multi-paragraph, your own title, typed, double-spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman & MLA set up of your page. Here is the link to help you set up your page ===>MLA […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Thurs LP #24-28 – focus on sentences Journal #5 – 4th draft – revise & rewrite considering EVERYTHING – use the sheets at the end of your notebook: transitions, editing, writing rubric. Essay structure, sentence variety, language & word choice, and, of course, IDEAS! Here’s the Ted Talk we started watching in class. […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Tuesday LP #23A Notebook: Journal #5 – What is critical thinking and how/why is it important – p. 38-39 – 3rd draft – focus on sentences and word choice/vocabulary. Goal: Canned Food Drive – 15 points/person!
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Thurs Canned Food Drive Donations! Follow your values of being kind, compassionate, generous, etc. and bring in donations to help those who need some food in their empty tummies! LP #20, 21, 22 – Complex & Compound Sentences Notebook: Journal #5 – p. 36-37 – 2nd Draft – Critical Thinking – Rewrite and […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Tuesday LP #11-16 (sentences) #29, 41, 32 (nouns, pronouns, verbs) Notebook: Journal #5 – Critical Thinking – What is it? Why is it important? Using your new and improved outline (p.33), write your 1st draft on p. 34-35. This is a double spaced, multi-paragraph response with a H.I.T intro, a strong PEE on it body, […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Friday LP #14, 15, 16 Journal #5 – Critical Thinking Outline – add to and change your ideas using what you watched and discussed in class Find at least one example of your own to share with the class – it can be a video ad, written, or anything else that would be an […]
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