Week at a Glance: Nov 22 - 26

If you missed a class last week, please go to the archives and find out what you missed.

English 8

• Keep reading - each day at home and each day in class. Remember to bring your book to class!
• Using the words from your spelling test of the Grade 5 list only, write a one page story or describe a scenario. 2.1: due Nov 22
• Spelling Test on the words from the first column of the Grade 6 list on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
• Short Story test on Thursday and Friday this week. If you'd like to prepare, please ensure you know the plot graph terms, how to describe a conflict, how to describe the setting, and how to describe a character.

English 11 AP

• Due Nov 22nd: Divide up the reading of Books 17-20 among your group and prepare notes for members of your group on your portion. Notes should draw connections, explain insights, or ask questions between your socratic seminar topic and your portion.
• Due Nov 24th: Same thing as above for Books 21-24.
• On Nov 26th you will have some time to prepare for your Socratic Seminar.
• Socratic Seminars will take place Nov 29, Dec 1 and Dec 3rd. Be prepared for any of these dates. 

Writing 12: Next meeting: December 7th at 7:15am.

To see details regarding the last month's assignments, go to the archive for last week.

• By mid-month, please email me your edited/revised piece from October on which you would like my feedback. Be sure to include a note to me in the email about what specifically you are trying to improve at or where you'd like me to focus my attention.
• First assignment: Write a children's book. This book will be illustrated by our senior art classes. Aim your book for a grade 1 to 3 audience. Include the following characteristics, which we discovered as pretty typical in class: repetition, sensory imagery, realistic dialgue, and playfulness with words (rhyme, rhythm, made-up words). This story is due on November 15th. A children's writer will be reading your work and offering your feedback. Please email me your draft, in manuscript form, by midnight on the 15th: bmoore@sd45.bc.ca.
• Second assignment: Finish your children's book and edit your piece from October.
• Third assignment: You should have done the following by now:
• Emailed your children's book to me
• Emailed your edited piece from October to me with a note as to what specifically you'd like me to offer you feedback on.
• Revised the grammar edits I've emailed back to you on your Children's Story and sent a clean, grammar perfect version back to me. On Nov 17 and 18 (that's Wednesday and Thursday) I have a children's writer looking at your stories and offering you feedback on them. This will only happen if I get your grammar-mistake free version back from you. By the start of the fourth week you should have reviewed the comments from the children's writer and made any changes you'd like to make and emailed your final draft to me so I can pass it along to the illustrators.
• Fourth assignment: I've sent an email to each of you regarding your Term 1 mark. Please open the email, complete the task I describe within it, and reply to me by the 26th of November. This is the report card timeline - we need to stick to it. Thank you! (ps: if you did not receive an email from you, I do not have your email address or I have mistyped your email address - please email me to notify me of this problem and I'll fix it.)

Writing 12 Contests and Opportunities

• Katherine has brought this to our attention - thank you, Katherine! http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/ National Novel Writing Month is coming up in November. The idea goal is to write up to a 175 page (Grade 11 can write anywhere from 17,000 to 35,000 words, and Grade 12 is anywhere from 25,000 to the full 50,00 words) novel in between midnight October 31st and midnight November 30th. I participated last year, and unfortunately didn't make it, but I'm going for the full 50,000 words this time around. I was hoping that some of the other writers in Writing 12 might want to join me, I know it's a huge undertaking but it really is fun to just write and not focus on whether everything is "perfect", and it would be nice to have a group who could support each other.
• http://www.bcyuk.legion.ca/main/youth-leadership-and-development/remembrance-poster-essay-and-literary-contest/remembrance-post