HOMEWORK: Due Wed/Thurs LP #3-5 Setting Pkg – Read & highlight the next story “Zlateh the Goat” AND do Qs. #1-4 on a separate page, title, name/date/block, & leave space to be able to add to your answers. Here’s an audio version of the story if you want to listen & read along — click […]
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Oct 12
ENGLISH 10 -1.1/1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Friday “What Are You, Anyway?” – Lit Circle Sheet #3, Story Map, Story Qs, Reading Quiz – including info from the links below, so make sure you watch/read them. Here are some videos to watch to get you thinking about identity & race—click here —>“White Boy Privilege” Slam Poem by Royce Mann AND Media bias and race AND R. Dolezal – Can you choose […]
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ENGLISH 11 – 1.3/2.2
HOMEWORK: Due Tues/Wed “Jade Peony” – p. 109-117 – Qs #4-9 “Jade Peony” Story Notes Journal #3 – Jade Peony – Discuss an experience(s) when you’ve felt caught between 2 or more cultures – your own & the majority/main stream. How did/does it feel? You can choose to focus on one particular experience or you […]
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ENGLISH 10 – 1.1./1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed “So What Are You, Anyway?” – Read, highlight, write in note-form answers, reading quiz Make sure you’re caught up with your 2 Lit Circle Sheets and the first 2 journals. Here are some videos to watch to get you thinking about the new story & the issues around identity & race—click here —>“White […]
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ENGLISH 10 – 1.1/1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed “The Friday Everything Changed” – story Qs, reading Quiz Lit Circle – you will be discussing “The Friday Everything Changed” have your 1 Lit Circle Sheet completed for the story Journal #1: Personal Identity – Consider the poems and discuss with examples what personal identity means to you. Journal requirements: double- spaced, […]
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ENGLISH 11 – 1.3/2.2
HOMEWORK: Due Mon/Tues “Miss Brill” – p. 57-63 – Reading Quiz, Qs #3-8, Story Map sheet Figure out your Narrative Presentation groups (grps of 3) and pick your top choices for topics Watch and read the lyrics to this song because we’re going to be talking about the song and “Miss Brill” —> Click here […]
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ENGLISH 9 – 2.1
HOMEWORK: Due Tuesday Journal #1 – My Values – 2nd draft (p.7). Make revisions – rearrange order, add, remove, improve sentences & vocab. For those of you who didn’t do the outline and/or 1st draft, you need to complete BOTH and have someone edit your 1st draft in your notebooks in order to catch up […]
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ENGLISH 10 -1.1/1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Monday BLOCK – 1.1- Lit Circle role sheet for the poems “The Friday Everything Changed” – Read, highlight, write in notes, look over the Qs Get and bring a NOTEBOOK to use for your journal responses BLOCK 1.2 – Get and bring a NOTEBOOK to use for your journal responses “The Friday Everything […]
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ENGLISH 10 – 1.1/1.2
HOMEWORK: Due Wed Reading Quiz – Poems Read, highlight, write in notes for “The Friday Everything Changed“ Block 1.2 – Lit Circle Role sheet for your (new) Lit Circle Groups – Ashley check with your group (Zain, Ghielene, Jared, Sandeep). Charlene – Come see me asap! Block 1.1 – You’ve chosen to make your own […]
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ENGLISH 8 – 1.4/2.3
HOMEWORK: Due Wed/Thurs TERRY FOX DONATIONS! & LP $15 & Notebook Setting Pkg – “Autumntime” Qs will be collected next time, so just make sure you added to and completed each question Flashcards – create 4 new flashcards for the poetry terms: Line, Stanza, Alliteration, Consonance. The definitions are on the “Special Sounds of Poetry” […]
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