Week at a Glance: Nov 8-12

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!
Prepare for your Silent Reading Book presetation and be ready to go on your assigned date

• Write about a “social conspiracy”.  One page – rough draft is fine.
• For 2.1 this is due on Monday the 15th.
• For 1.3 this is due on Friday the 8th.

English 11 AP

• Read up to Book 8 inclusive by the 9th.
• Read up to Book 12 inclusive by Friday. Friday you will be divided into study groups - one group per book. You will debrief on the book then present to the rest of the class so everyone goes deeply into one book and gets details on the others
• Due for the 16th, you should have read your article. Make notes re the article and prepare any questions regarding the article or the connections the article makes to The Odyssey.
• Reading of Books 13 – 16 due by the 18^th.
• 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 the day 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. Between now and 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.

1. 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.
2. Second assignment: Finish your children's book and editing your piece from October.
3. Third assignment:
4. Fourth assignment:

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