Week at a Glance: Feb 28 - March 4

If you missed a class, please check out the archives.


English 8
Term Reflection Week.

English 11AP
Term Reflection Week.

Writing 12: Next class tba.
NOTE: "Feels So Write" is our public reading event! You must be available to read a piece (your favourite or your best or whatever you choose) that you've written this year. DATE: MAY 6th - a Friday night at the Municipal Library. I think it starts at 6:30pm, but I'll double check that and get back to you. Bring your friends and family because how often do you get a mic and the chance to say whatever you want?!

• Due Feb 28th: by this date, please email me the text of a spoken word piece (slam poetry) that you have written. If you'd like examples please look for the following poets on YouTube: Shane Koyzan, Alicia Keys, Def Jam Poetry, and others.
• Due March 7th: Below is a poem I wrote using a formula. Some of you have expressed that you're finding it difficult to write a poem - well, I'll make it easier for you. I'd like you to write a poem using the formula below too. The formula follows the poem below. Feel free to break or change the formula as you see fit. 
  
  Lucas
  
  Whenever I see
  toy alligators or infants
  it is Vancouver, 1981
  and I am buying an
  alligator, with goofy
  and googly eyes.
  
  I am hearing the organized
  confusion of the nurses
  shoes.
  
  But that is not my story.
  My story is my brother,
  on his third and last day
  of life, and I sit here,
  holding his goofy little
  alligator.
  
  FORMULA FOR ABOVE POEM (please write it about an instant from your own past, real or imagined.)

(Title)

Whenever I (see,hear,taste,feel,smell)
(noun) or (noun)
it is (place), (time/year)
and I am (verb phrase)

I am (hearing, smelling, tasting, seeing, feeling) (noun)
But that is not my story.
My story is (anything you want).

Your memoir and feedback will be available for pick up at lunch on Feb 28th in W201. If you don't pick it up at this time, I will hand it over to the teacher taking over for me and she or he will return it to you at the next meeting.

Week at a Glance: Feb 21 - 25

If you missed a class, please check out the archives.

English 8

• Silent Reading with an Adult Presentation: You will present on the experience of reading this book with an adult. You can choose to focus your presentation on what you learned about the adult, on what you learned about reading, on what your discussions were like, on the best and worst part of reading with your adult, etc... You will also have a visual to aid you in communicating your ideas to your audience. The visual should relate to the experience but it can also relate the the book itself if you like. You will not be summarizing the book - but you can set the context by explaining in one or two sentences what the book is about if that helps you communicate the experience of reading that book with your adult.
• DUE on Wednesday the 23rd for 1.3 and Thursday the 24th for 2.1.

English 11AP

• Your project is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday the 22nd.

Writing 12: Next class tba.

1. Please hand in your memoir to the office in manuscript form (as per instructions in last week's post - see archives) with this attached.
   
   
1. Writing my memoir felt...
2. I started my memoir on ...
3. Overall, it took me about _____ hours to write.
4. I spent ____% of that time on revision.
5. I wrote ____ drafts.
6. Here is what I did to challenge myself:
7. Here is what I would do different next time:
2. Due Feb 28th: by this date, please email me the text of a spoken word piece (slam poetry) that you have written. If you'd like examples please look for the following poets on YouTube: Shane Koyzan, Alicia Keys, Def Jam Poetry, and others.
3. Due March 7th:
4. Due after Spring Break: 
5. Your memoir will be available for pick up at lunch on Feb 28th in W201. If you don't pick it up at this time, I will hand it over to the teacher taking over for me and she or he will return it to you at the next meeting.

Week at a Glance: Feb 14-16

If you missed a class this week, please go to the archives to see what you've missed.

English 8

• You should be finishing your reading with an adult book and reflecting on how the experience went. Here are some things to consider: how did it feel to talk to an adult about a book? What did you like best about your discussions? What did you like the least? What was the best discussion you had and what made it so good?
• Garden Nerds:
• 1.3: on Tuesday you should bring your finished article to class - printed out on paper - and have it in a digital copy as well (email it to yourself or bring it on a flash drive).
• 2.1: on Wednesday you should bring your finished article to class - printed out on paper - and have it in a digital copy as well (email it to yourself or bring it on a flash drive).

Grade 11
Do what you need to do with the due date in mind.

Writing 12: next in class meeting is Feb 21st at 7am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Please email me to schedule an appointment to go over your memoir. We must meet before the 21st.
• Due on Feb 21st - your final draft and at least 2 rough drafts of your memoir. FORMAT: your final draft should be as follows:
• Size 12. Times New Roman. Double Spaced. 12 pages long not including a title page with a solid title and your name as authour.

Week at a Glance: Feb 7 - 11

Please see the archives to catch up on missed assignments if you have missed class.

 

English 8

• You should be almost done your book and thinking about your presentation now. Please bring your book to each class.
• By the end of this week, all of you should have cited your url into Noodlebib (for the Garden Nerds Wiki).

 

English 11

• Do what you need to do to get your tasks done. Feel free to email some things to me for feedback. Email me drafts!

  Writing 12: Next meeting: Feb 21st at 7:00am.

Our next meeting will be a song writing workshop. Your memoirs are also due on Feb 21st. 

To see details regarding the last month's assignments, go to the archives.

Please email me to schedule one-on-one appointments should you feel the need for clarification, a push, or help with your memoir. 

 

WRITING CONTESTS

The Writers' Union has some awesome contests - deadlines range from Feb to the Spring: http://www.writersunion.ca/cn_main.asp

 

The Poetry Institute of Canada's Young Writers Creative Writing Contest: Cash prizes are available. See Ms Moore for more details or go to http://www.youngwritersofcanada.ca/.