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Monday, March 18, 2024


Current Work: Essay Writing
Show me you can write an essay using conventional formatting and structure.

Students are required to use Microsoft Word for class submissions. (Google SharePoints, Adobe pdf's and Macintosh .Pages files are not compatible with school technology and will not be accepted.) Microsoft Word is available free of charge for all UCDSB students. Failing that, please install Open Office and "Save As" .docx

 

Slideshow of the thinkers studied in class.


Past Work
 
Feb 16
Descriptive Writing #1
-Submit your first original, informal descriptive writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #1.
-Fill out this planner first and show it to me before you start writing your story.
A completed one might look like this.

For this first story, use past tense and third person
. I will indicate incorrect verb tenses with yellow highlighting and problems with where sentences start and stop using blue highlighting.
-The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting.

-Try for no more than 1.5 to 2 pages in length.
-Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing.
-Expressive and personal writing only. Be descriptive (that means describe all new settings and characters when they show up first).
-Make your story as colourful and interesting as you can.

-(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write)
Your filename should start with "DW1"
Feb 23
Descriptive Writing #2
A second story of the same sort at you did for Descriptive Writing #1, with the same rules as above, only using prescribed format #2.
This format will make your story look just like an essay, but do not actually write an essay or quote or cite sources. Write a story. (You're just practising format for when we write the actual essays.)
For this second story, use past tense and either third or first person. I will indicate incorrect verb tenses with yellow highlighting and problems with where sentences start and stop using blue highlighting.

The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting.
Double the 1.5 to 2 pages length for the double-spaced format #2 (2x1.5=3, 2x2=4).
Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting.(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write)
Your filename should start with "DW2."
Mar 1
Descriptive Writing #3
Submit your third original, informal descriptive writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #3. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1.5 to 2 pages in length. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting.(no informational pieces. No essays. No journalism. Nothing meta/no stories about being assigned a story to write) Your filename should start with "DW3."
Mar 22
Fill-In-The-Blank Essay
Using the Assignment Sheet, write an essay on a non-school topic. Every paragraph needs to mention an expert or information source helping you make your points. Retain all of the essay formatting and the wording I have given you, filling in the blanks and completing my sentences. Avoid every single of the twenty problems outlined on the Stop! Sheet. Have a peer go over your essay for you before submitting it, and include their name on your title sheet. Your partner's job is to point out if you have lost the essay formatting anywhere, not retained my wording, or done anything you were asked not to do on the Stop! Sheet. Include a partner's name on the essay when submitting it to D2L on March 10. Your filename should start with "FITBE."
TBA
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Find elements from The Odyssey (<- class PowerPoint) in O Brother, Where Art Thou? Fill out this Fill-in-the-Blank-Essay sheet, changing the language slightly if you'd like to make it sound less repetitive. Use format #2. Here is The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles, in a searchable PDF to quote directly from. Here is the (searchable) script of O Brother, Where Art Thou? to quote directly from. For a passing mark, ensure every paragraph has a quotation, and make sure to quote from both The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (here is your teacher singing the song from the end of the movie.) Your filename should start with "OBWAT."
TBA
Short Fiction #1
Short Fiction #1: Use this planning chart before starting the assignment. If you have trouble with the assignment, you will be asked to submit the planing chart first. Follow these instructions perfectly, and submit your work to D2L, using prescribed format #3. Some reading choices are here... For a passing mark, quote from the story as directed. Link to "Story Machine Knobs" to help with completing assignment. Your filename should start with "SF1"
TBA
Short Fiction #2 and #3
Short Fiction #2 and #3: Use this planning chart before starting the assignment. If you have trouble with the assignment, you will be asked to submit the planing chart first. Follow these same instructions perfectly, and submit your work to D2L, using prescribed format #3. Make sure you haven't read four stories by the same author or of the same kind. Avoid choosing only the shortest stories. For a passing mark, quote from the story as directed. Link to "Story Machine Knobs" to help with completing assignment.Your filenames should start with "SF2" and "SF3."
TBA
The Loser Story
The Loser Story: Follow these different instructions perfectly for the story you are going to criticize, and submit your work to D2L, using prescribed format #2.
Make sure you have read stories by at least three different authors. For a passing mark, quote from each story mentioned, including the "Losing" story itself.
Your filename should start with "TLS."

TBA

Lord of the Flies chapter work

Read through William Golding's Lord of the Flies. following these instructions exactly.

Show me you can correctly quote directly from the book, using the literary language I have started for you. Golding says, "_____ Try for one "Symbolism" and one "Themes" quotation per chapter pair, but if you can't, you may do two of each.

Bonus Marks
Final Essay
Show me you have learned to format, reason out, support and word an academic essay. Fill it with quotes you cite at the end. Make paragraphs that 1) introduce questions, 2) pull in relevant information, and 3) conclude things only at their ends. Choose at topic from this sheet. (Here are the thinkers we discussed in class. Choose one or suggest another to me.)