ENG11: Independent Essay Resources

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Independent Essay- Outline, Rubric

Independent Novel – Comparative Essay outline (PDF)

Independent Essay Checkpoints

Independent Essay Checkpoint Dates (PDF)

Independent Essay Outline

Independent Essay Structure, Outline Expectations (PDF)

Interactive Essay Outline – click me!

This is a digital version of the form I provided in class- you can fill out and save your organizer online, download and print it. May be of interest to those of you who want to be able to use your ideas to help write/draft your paragraphs for the next series of checkpoints!

HEY! Trouble identifying theme? Read me.

Drafting Your Introduction

Please note that your draft introduction will be checked in class on Wednesday, May 9, as per the calendar of checkpoints.

Formal Essay 2 – Model Intro, Annotations (PDF)

For those of you who did not keep your notes regarding “first impression” strategies for starting an essay, please refer to this document: Strategies for Leads & Sample Essays (PDF). In it, you will find notes about the full range of strategies we discussed in our first essay writing workshops earlier this semester, along with sample essays where you can not only look at the lead strategy employed, but how those strategies work in the context of a completed essay.

Drafting Your Body

2012 05 18 – Review- body paragraph ingredients (PDF)

Drafting Your Conclusion

For those of you who did not keep your notes regarding “last impression” strategies for starting an essay, please refer to this document: Strategies for Concluding & Sample Essays (PDF) . In it, you will find notes about the full range of strategies we discussed in our first essay writing workshops earlier this semester, along with sample essays where you can not only look at the concluding strategy employed, but how those strategies work in the context of a completed essay.

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ENG11: Pink slips- Blogs #1 and #2

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Hey Ivy and Robin,

The names of those students who have not yet posted blogs one and two in your respective class spaces (Ivy, Robin) were posted in class today, along with your final chance to get them in for value.

Your blogs must be posted not later than Friday, April 27 by 4 pm. Failure to post them by this time will result in forfeiting the value of these tasks towards your term grade. They were due over a month ago, and you have been provided with a reasonable amount of time to get them in. If you choose not to complete them, then you agree to the zeroes.

I will have laptops present in room 112 on Friday at lunch for any student who needs internet access to get this finished.

I will post this list once per day until Friday. Git ‘er done!

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ENG11: if you missed the bus

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

…another leaves at 9:07 am

Route 72, Spikenard Street at Farquarson

Don’t miss that one!

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ENG11: Wikipages Resources

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Need a place to upload a photo to insert in your wikipage?

Register here:

http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/pwozney/gallery2/

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ENG11: ViewFinders Film Festival Field Trip

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

Robin & Ivy,

Below is the information about our trip scheduled for Friday, April 20:

Itinerary

The schedule for the day is as follows:

08:25                         Students should be present for their A block class for attendance.

08:30                         Students depart for Empire Theatres Dartmouth Crossing via either:

  • Metro Transit Route 72 (Spikenard at Woodlawn)- tickets provided
  • Parental transportation/own automobile

09:20                         Students arrive at Empire Theatres Dartmouth Crossing, get tickets for first feature

10:00                         Students view March of the Living (74 minutes)

11:15-12:00            Lunch- students can bring lunch, or purchase lunch at locations within walking distance

12:00                         Attendance taken, student pick up tickets for afternoon feature

12:15                         Students view feature The Boxing Girls of Kabul (54 minutes), followed by Q & A with director Ariel J. Nasr

 

14:00                         Students depart for PAHS via either:

  • Metro Transit Route 72 (Findlay Drive after Shubie Drive)- tickets provided
  • Parental transportation/own automobile

14:55                         Students arrive at PAHS

15:10                         Dismissal

 

Transportation

The ViewFinders Film Festival for Youth has graciously provided complimentary bus tickets to and from the venue via Metro Transit. If you are taking the bus, you need to meet me at the bus stop stated above.

Please note that students are not permitted, by HRSB policy, to transport one another via automobile to and from the venue. Because this is a school activity, students operating vehicles to transport peers is not allowed for insurance and liability reasons.

Cost

I am asking each student to co-pay $6 for this field trip. We have received generous donations from ViewFinders and its partners to cover the cost of public transit and tickets for one class for one feature. PAHS is also subsidizing this trip.

Should the $6 co-pay I am requesting represent a legitimate financial hardship, please contact me via email. I want to make sure that everyone is included, regardless of ability to cover this fee. It would be my sincere pleasure to provide discrete assistance to ensure participation.

Attendance

Attendance will be taken during first period A block classes for students on Friday, April 20. If you are not present or excused absent at that time, it will be noted as an unexcused absence and compromise eligibility for an exam exemption for A block classes. Attendance will be taken on site prior to the 10:00 am and 12:15 pm features and submitted to the school. Any student not present for those checks will also be noted as unexcused absent for their B, C and D block classes, respectively, which will impact exemption eligibility for those courses as well.

Feature Content

Anyone wishing to preview the features we will be seeing can find the information and trailers at the ViewFinders website under the link “Festival Schedule/Buy Tickets” for the April 20 listings. (http://atlanticfilm.com/festivals/viewfinders)

The following forms must be completed and submitted in advance (no later than end of day, Thursday, April 19) of the trip in order for you to participate:

VF Field Trip parent letter (PDF)

PAHS field trip permission (PDF)

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ECM11(Twoface): Letters to the Editor Resources

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Hey Twoface,

Here are some links to pages where you can find letters to the editor published in newspapers around the country:

Halifax, NS:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinions/letters

Montreal, QC:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/letters/

Vancouver, BC:

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/letters/index.html

Feel free to look up letters in other papers to help locate one about a topic you find interesting.

Today’s task:

Find an interesting letter. Print it. Using a highlighter or pen, identify the sentence in the letter you feel captures the main idea of the writer.

Then, in a few sentences, summarize in your own words what you think the writer’s opinion about the issue is.

This task should be completed by the end of today’s class. Good luck!

Example task:

(letter from http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/letters/Letters+Students+their+rights/6344258/story.html)

I would like to ask protesting students how many of them have smartphones. I would guess the answer is nearly all of them.

Then I would like to know how much they pay for those smart phones annually. I can just about guarantee that it is substantially more than the proposed $300-plus hike in tuition fees they are so vociferously protesting.

A modest suggestion to the protesters: give up your smart phones while you are in school. Your slightly elevated tuition will be covered, and you will have money left over to buy other things, like schoolbooks.

Here’s a fact: millions who preceded you in university before the digital age did just fine without smartphones. And flush with the money you save, you will not feel compelled to disrupt the lives of everyone else with your petty grievances.

Paul Globus, Montreal

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Letters+Students+their+rights/6344258/story.html#ixzz1qWW19Fq2

When I read this letter, I think the writer is making a comment about how he feels about student reaction to the government of Quebec trying to raise tuition for college and university a modest amount every year for a few years. I think that he feels this increase over time is reasonable because he uses an amount of money students can afford (like their cell phone bills per year) to compare to how much more money a year they are being asked to pay for the education. I think that he’s arguing that students protesting for no tuition hikes are being selfish, and that they have things while they go to school that people never had or needed to finish university before, and that today’s students need to put their money towards what they say is important (school) instead of what the writer thinks are the extras in life (cell phones).

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ENG11: Allegory Essay Resources

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Allegory – Comparative Essay, final draft (PDF)Hey Ivy/Robin,

Please find below several resources connected with your first academic essay of the semester:

Outline/Topic:  Allegory – Comparative Essay outline (PDF)

Academic formatting checklist/ Criteria for Assessment:  Allegory – Comparative Essay Rubric (PDF)

Draft introductory paragraph:  Allegory – Comparative Essay intro draft (PDF)

Draft body paragraph 1:  Allegory – Comparative Essay body 1 draft (PDF)

Draft body paragraph 2: Allegory – Comparative Essay body 2 draft (PDF)

Draft conclusion: Allegory – Comparative Essay conclusion draft (PDF)

Sample Final Draft: Allegory – Comparative Essay, final draft (PDF)

Works cited list? easybib.com

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The Way Back: Critical Literacy Links

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Listen to the podcast here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00wdcts

Read article 1

Read article 2

Blog Post Topic & Rubric

The Way Back – blog prompt & rubric (PDF)

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ENG11: Animal Farm Reading Portfolio, Checkpoint 5

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Title: ENG11: Animal Farm Reading Portfolio, Checkpoint 5
Description: As per the outline for your reading portfolio project distributed today in class, you should have the FIFTH of the five items you chose to do for your portfolio completed and ready to submit at the beginning of class on Friday, March 9.

Please note that extra help is available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays at lunch, and before and after school by appointment and with proper notice. :)
Start Date: 2012-03-06
End Date: 2012-03-09

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ENG11: Animal Farm Reading Portfolio, Checkpoint 4

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Title: ENG11: Animal Farm Reading Portfolio, Checkpoint 4
Description: As per the outline for your reading portfolio project distributed today in class, you should have the FOURTH of the five items you chose to do for your portfolio completed and ready to submit at the beginning of class on Tuesday, March 6.

Please note that extra help is available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays at lunch, and before and after school by appointment and with proper notice. :)
Start Date: 2012-03-02
End Date: 2012-03-06

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