Saturday, January 27, 2018

End of Semester

Thank you all for your participation in English 10. Below, I have pasted any web sites that were created for the Inquiry projects.

Block B

Climate change: Canada vs Sweden
by Brier
https://prezi.com/view/z2ql76s8tkXKLArzqyz3/ 

How does chain coffeeshop coffee compare to local coffee shop coffee?
by Gwyneth
https://coffeeletstalk.wordpress.com/  

What is the relationship between rap and poetry?
by Rachel
https://rachelsjones02.wixsite.com/rapandpoetry 


How would teenagers view themselves without social media?
by Tiffanie
https://spark.adobe.com/page/LSV1O8fgmidqG/ 

What is Restorative Justice?
by Savannah
https://savsblogcom.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/restorative-justice/

Sunday, January 14, 2018

January 15 - January 18

Thursday
1. Mark quiz.
2. CAUTION - make sure that your inquiry does not decline into "information retrieval": google, find info, change wording, paste.
3. I will be checking OneNote during this class. Please have an up-to-date "Learning Evidence" page for me to look over.


Wednesday
1. Quiz on drama terms: allusion
assonance
tragedy
juxtaposition
soliloquy
monologue
iambic pentameter
blank verse
metaphor
simile
oxymoron
pun
alliteration
hyperbole
imagery

2. Continue work on your inquiry.



Tuesday

1. Drama terms and devices quiz tomorrow. Do you need help with any of these words:

https://quizlet.com/168944317/english-12-terms-and-devices-flash-cards/

allusion
assonance
tragedy
juxtaposition
soliloquy
monologue
iambic pentameter
blank verse
metaphor
simile
oxymoron
pun
alliteration
hyperbole
imagery

2. Block C/G - set up your Inquiry folder. Do a reflection for Monday and Tuesday.



Monday

1. Time for working on your Inquiry project: 

• At the beginning of the class, create a page in OneNote called Learning Evidence. 

• In that document put today’s date and a goal for what you will accomplish during the block. 

• Beneath the goal, you should keep a record of sites you visit, you should take notes related to your inquiry. 

• At the end of the block, leave enough time to write a brief reflection on how your work period went and whether or not you met your goal. If you didn’t meet it, why not? What will you do differently tomorrow.   

Saturday, January 6, 2018

January 8 - 12

Friday

1. Work on your mini-inquiry project.
2. Play a Kahoot!

Thursday
1. Present your min-inquiry proposal.
2. Read your novel.
3. Kahoot - drama terms - QUIZ ON TERMS NEXT WEDNESDAY!






Wednesday

1. Quiz on drama terms next Wednesday.
2. Practice drama terms.
3. Complete the proposal for your "Mini-Inquiry" - Thursday (tomorrow), in small groups, you will be pitching your mini-inquiry idea to us.




Tuesday

1. Bring your silent reading books to class for the rest of the semester.
2. Block B - Pear Deck
3. QUIZ on drama terms NEXT Wednesday, January 10
tragedy
juxtaposition
soliloquay
monologue
sonnet
iambic pentameter
blank verse
metaphor
simile
oxymoron
puns
alliteration 
hyperbole 


imagery 
allusion

4. Write the proposal for your mini-inquiry - DUE DATE is Thursday, January17:

PUT this work in the page in OneNote called "Mini-Inquiry



PROPOSAL
What is your essential question? Please share why it is meaningful to you?
What is your “performance task” going to be?
You are responsible for finding one quality example of the type of work you want to do and showing it to Ms. Adams 
You are responsible for finding a rubric to evaluate your performance task and going over it with Ms. Adams 
How will you make your learning public?
What will you need to read, research, and study to help explore your essential question?
What are your goals for your free inquiry?
What learning evidence (for your blog) will you gather to capture everything you are learning about your essential questions?
What is your plan? Create a calendar and day-to-day plan to help your free inquiry unit be a successful learning experience. Put this calendar in your blog
Create an inquiry ; - find a rubric - find an expert? or find an example to model- do a calendar plan for next week for each day work that will be done.








Monday

1. Welcome back and chat.
2. Mark quiz from before the break.
3. Pre-quiz + Literary terms & Pear Deck - you must find examples from Romeo and Juliet - QUIZ ON ?
5. The remainder of term 2 - Free inquiry


composition - written communication
For this inquiry, you would read and study compositions by other writers and consider a variety of styles as models for the development of your writing. You could write a narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, or an opinion piece. You would be using the planning, drafting, and editing processes. You would be writing for a specific audience.  If you choose to do a research report, you would investigate how to cite sources, consider the credibility of evidence, and evaluate the quality and reliability of the source

creative writing
This inquiry will give you an opportunity to build your writing skills through the exploration of your inquiry question in a range of genres such as slam poetry, oratory, rap, drama, song, graphic novels • creative non-fiction, historical fiction • poetry, song lyrics • multimodal creative forms that combine visual, written, and oral texts

focused literary study
This option encourages you to delve more deeply into literature where you can explore specific themes, periods, authors, or areas of the world through literary works. For example: poetry, short stories, novels, drama, graphic novels, children’s literature • Canadian literature • First Peoples’ texts • thematic studies • specific author studies

new media
If you choose to focus your inquiry on media and film studies, some possible inquiry areas might be the influence of the media on you; a documentary you are interested in, the influence social media has on you. 
You could do an inquiry about journalism and publishing —how could you become a professional journalist; what does it look like to be a journalist in the age of social media? what is citizen journalism? Is local journalism important? Is school-based journalism relevant? 
Or, you might decide to explore digital communication — your question might relate to blogging, writing for the web, writing for social media, gaming, podcasting

spoken language
This choice of inquiry will  provide you with an opportunity for performance, storytelling, or public speaking.


Sunday, December 17, 2017

Monday, December 18 - Friday, December 22

Monday

Today is Fake Appreciation Day!




1. Good copy of your essay is due on Wednesday. Please paste a new copy of your essay below your good copy; don't erase the version that has my feedback.
2. How to fix run-on sentences and fragments.
3. Quiz on run-on and fragment fixes tomorrow - Tuesday.
4. Watch the end of Romeo & Juliet
5. Character props for Romeo and Juliet


Tuesday


1. Quiz on fixing run-ons and fragments.
2. How to use quotes in your essay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSDZeSl_Yc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68vm-y1IzYQ&list=PLE2K5ZleJhgtfvzqJVv7Xk0zfBFdA9sHr

3. Work on your essay or your collage for Shakespeare/Romeo & Juliet
4. Quizlet  for terms and devices



Wednesday


Hooray! It's December 20th. 
And you know what that means don't you? It's... 
Cathode-Ray Tube Day 2017

1. Finish your final draft of your essay - It is due today.
2. Work on your collage. Rubric is in OneNote in your personal folder.
3. Mark quiz.
Pear deck for terms and devices.
TERMS:
allusion

juxtaposition
soliloquay/ monologue
sonnet
iambic pentameter
blank verse
metaphor/simile
oxymoron
puns
alliteration 
hyperbole 
imagery 


Thursday

1. Work on collage. Due date is tomorrow.
2. Watch end of Romeo and Juliet.

Friday
1. Romeo & Juliet: version 2?
2. Work on your collage.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Monday, December 11 - Friday, December 15

Friday - Your essay is due at the end of class today. Put a copy in your term 2 folder in OneNote.
1. Work on your essay.
2. Watch part of Romeo and Juliet.

Thursday
1. Work on your essay for part of the class.
2. Watch part of Romeo and Juliet.

Wednesday - 45 minutes
1. Work on your essay.

Tuesday


1. Write one of the body paragraph(s) for your essay.

Monday

1. Silent reading
2. Show me that the introduction of your essay is complete.
3. Create a "collage" to visually show your essay examples.


Image result for shakespeare in advertising collage


Sunday, December 3, 2017

Monday, December 4 - Friday, December 8

Friday
Happy National Christmas Tree Day!

1. By the end of today's class: essay practice worksheet #2 AND  the first  paragraph of your essay: the introduction.
Your thesis is:  Shakespeare / Romeo & Juliet  is one of the most enduring brands in human history

2. Silent reading - go to the library to pick-up new book if you wish.
3. Id there is time: ads that feature Shakespeare / Romeo & Juliet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGas3e7p_9A - Jaguar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7HTNtEyVs - Ikea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzXgvC1fKBI - Red Bull

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For next week...
6. Character props.

7. Videos about original pronunciation
8. Essay practice #2 - go over the essays in OneNote and score
9. Write one of the body paragraphs for your essay.



Thursday



Romeo & Juliet summary - animated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrvQ1vZxcg
Romeo & Juliet summary - Schmoop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q6hIVRa_QA


1. Ads that feature Shakespeare / Romeo & Juliet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGas3e7p_9A - Jaguar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7HTNtEyVs - Ikea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzXgvC1fKBI - Red Bull

2. What does Shakespeare symbolize in each of these ads?

3. Finish essay how to - essay practices
4. Thesis statements
5. Character props
6. Videos about original pronunciation



Wednesday


1. Olde English, middle English, modern English
2. How to write an essay.




Tuesday
Happy (?) Kramusnacht!    
In folkloreKrampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon",[1] who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts.



1. What do these words have in common?
 

Bloodstained       Bedazzled


              New-fangled                   Fashionable


Scuffle           Zany


Puking           Swagger                                   Grovel




Gnarled                        Lonely          Unreal

2. Shakespearian insults

3. Quoting Shakespeare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig6f5fT0Xho
4. A couple more modern texts that use Shakespeare. Why is Shakespeare used in these modern texts? Review what was said yesterday and add to our list.
music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QlxuCW9dxc - short
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTL0Qa3IM4 - long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzPFxBo2_FY  - Simpsons
5. The Prologue. Competitive reading
6. Drawing characters: come up with a drawing to symbolize your character. DO NOT write the name of the character on the symbol.
7. Just for laughs - whose line is it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0ln_xVt-4

Romeo and Juliet Character List













Romeo

Sixteen-year-old Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet Capulet at a masquerade, thus igniting their tragic affair. Romeo is defined by a self-indulgent melancholy at the beginning of the play, but later becomes a much more active and committed character, which is clear when he kills Tybalt. Romeo's final act of passion is when, believing his beloved Juliet is dead, he takes his own life. Throughout the play, Romeo embraces an idealistic view of love, which explains why he falls for Juliet so quickly and passionately.

Lord Montague

Romeo's father and a mortal enemy of the Capulets.

Lady Montague

Romeo's mother, who dies from a broken heart after Romeo is banished from Verona.

Friar Laurence

A older man and a friend to Romeo. He officiates the wedding of Romeo and Juliet, hoping to gain political peace through the union. When that doesn't work out, he concocts the plan to reunite the star-crossed lovers by giving Juliet a sleeping potion - but the plan backfires.

Juliet

Juliet Capulet is a thirteen-year-old girl who falls in love with Romeo Montague. She has a strong will and a rebellious streak - she knows what she wants. Defined by a shrewd intelligence and pronounced agency, Juliet is in many ways a more masculine character than Romeo is, even if the patriarchy of her family limits her power. Her final decision to kill herself speaks to her pronounced focus and commitment.

Lord Capulet

Juliet's father and a temperamental bully who initially pretends to consider his daughter's welfare while arranging her marriage, but later demands her quick union with Count Paris. Her father's pressure is a catalyst in the final sequence of events that ends in Juliet's suicide.

Lady Capulet

Juliet's mother is submissive to her husband, and refuses to intercede for Juliet when their daughter expresses concern over the arranged marriage to Count Paris.

Tybalt

Juliet's hot-headed cousin, whose penchant for violence leads to the Act III street fight - ending in his own death as well as Mercutio's.

Nurse

Juliet's nurse is ostensibly the young girl's confidante, but also harbors a certain amount of resentment that makes her useless when it comes to saving the girl. Nurse often makes trouble for Juliet by refusing to give her information quickly, and later turns into a traitor by arguing Juliet should marry Paris, even though she knows about her secret marriage to Romeo.

Prince Escalus

The ruler of Verona who provides for and represents law and order in the city. He frequently attempts to cede the violence between the Montagues and Capulets, but he finds himself powerless against true love.

Mercutio

Romeo's friend, a kinsman of the Prince, and one of the play's most colorful characters. In the early Acts, Mercutio displays a pronounced wit and colorful language. However, by Act III, as he lies dying after the street fight, he delivers a damning speech on the feuding houses. Mercutio's death marks the play's turn into tragedy.

Paris

Count Paris is Juliet's suitor - Lord Capulet supports the union but Juliet despises him. Though never as insidious as Lord Capulet, Paris behaves arrogantly once the marriage date is set. He confronts Romeo in Act V, which leads to the Count's death in battle.

http://shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html



Monday
Happy National Kitten Day!

Inquiry question for this unit:

Why is Shakespeare still used in modern texts like tv shows, movies and advertising?  

1. Shakespeare as a brand: draw Shakespeare. No phones please.

2. Shakespeare in advertising: What type of products do you think would use Shakespeare?
During viewing, come up with one word that answers the inquiry question above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxs0dsHgfWU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYl5Qd7yQYE
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/23/happy-450th-birthday-shakespeare-ads-which-play-bard-including-levi-and-spam

3. The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet: but first some warm-up games: TV show line-up; Animals; Prologue reading and speed contest.

4. Let's watch the play now: 15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

criteria for a ghost story

Wednesday, October 31


1. Conventions of a ghost story review: How do you know this is a ghost story - apart from the obvious mention of ghosts...

Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqS6pBC42w

2. Giving co-constructing criteria and offering peer feedback: How to do it...

Read story #1
What's something the writer did well?
Debrief as a class

Story #2
What did this writer do well? This time, push your thinking and don't use anything that was mentioned about story #1.

Story #3
Last chance to add to the criteria. Again, don't mention things that are already on our list.


3. On the sentence strips or Post-its, write down your top two criteria. Write one point on one piece of paper. Write it big enough so it can be seen if it is up on the board.

Put your criteria on the floor or on the chalkboard - which ever you are asked to do.

4. Group/categorize similar Post-its/sentence strips.

5. Give each group a name based on what is in the group.