Week at a Glance: Feb 8-12 (and as a reminder over the Olympic Break!)

English 8

• This week we'll be praciting reading aloud with expression with our study into a couple short stories by Canadian author William Bell.
• Due Wednesday: Free-write using the following words correctly: comspiracy, vicinity, contempt, pompous, altercation, decadent
• Due Friday: add 1/2 page to your free-write from Wednesday using the following words correctly: guant, carcass, decrepit, dilapidated

English 11
Compare and Contrast Essay:

• Focus on one or more specific type attributes and compare them to yourself as defined by your own perception.
• Focus on the type itself - for example: Are you really Introverted, rather than Extroverted? You must use "type" and perceived attributes to argue your point.

MBTI websites:

• www.knowyourtype.com/16_types.html
• www.typelogic.com
• www.myersbriggs.org

Be creative and interpretive with this assignment - have fun with the topic.

Writing 12

• Memoir Due Dates:
• Entire 12 page draft due in class on March 3rd.
• Final Draft due March 26th
• In class on the 9th of February we took our memoirs through the following steps. Please do so if you were not in class. Please finish this task for your online class on Feb 11th.  KEEP THE DRAFT THAT YOU DO THIS TO IN BEFORE AND AFTER CONDITION. GOAL: Cut out 500 words (or 20% of your draft)
• Be ruthless with adjectives and adverbs
• To do this, please highlight ALL adjectives and adverbs in your draft. Then change or delete.
• Distil one paragraph into one sentence.
• Combine sentences.
• Employ mostly active voice.
• to to do this, please highlight (in a different colour from the adjectives and adverbs) all the following words in their full and contracted form – then change or delete them: is, am, were, was, are
• Here is a list of our IN CLASS classes for the next few months. Please print this out or make a note of these dates in your agenda:
• March 3, 5, 15, 17, 26, 30
• April 15, 19, 27, 29
• May 7, 11, 19, 25
• June 2, 4, 14
• FYI: North Shore Writers Contest http://www.nswriters.bc.ca/node/82

English 11 Pre-AP

Choose three tasks from numbers 3-7 on the task list that you will have brought to final draft and those will be due on March 9th. Everything else is due by March 30th.

When making your schedule of due dates, which you will hand in to me on Wednesday, be sure to include time for you to go through 2 rough drafts at least and then one final draft for each of the tasks.

For Term 2, your mark will be heavily based on the 3 items you hand in on the 9th.

Term 3's mark will have much to do with the rest of the unit and I will not accept anything beneath an Accomplished or Exemplary level, so you'll need to leave time for you to check your final drafts with me before you consider an item completed.

In the meantime, get started! March 9th will come MUCH FASTER than you think.