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Sunday, January 21, 2024



"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

ENG 4C1 Reading Tasks
We're practicing writing with fully developed ideas, formatted and presented well. We're practising reading for extended periods, using helpful reading strategies. We're analysing how media works were put together, and their explicit and implicit messages.

Extensions: Extensions for 24, 48 or 72 hours may be granted if an email is sent prior to deadline, outlining reasons the extension is needed, and providing evidence the assignment has been started. Extended assignments will need to be emailed directly as the window for submission to D2L will have passed.


Past Work
   
Sept 21st
Descriptive Writing #1
Submit your first original, informal writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #1. For this first story, use past tense and third person. "He/She/They" rather than "I," and "was and said" rather than "is" and "says." The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1 to 1.5 pages in length. Tell what colour things are. Describe people. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No journalism) File name should start with DW1.
Sept 28th
Descriptive Writing #2
Submit your second original, informal writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #2. Don't write an essay. Format #2 will look like one, though. The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 2 to 3 pages in length because this will be double-spaced. Tell what colour things are. Describe people. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No journalism) File name should start with DW2.
Oct 5th
Descriptive Writing #3
Submit your third original, informal writing piece to D2L, using format #3 . The three-part story structure and Personal Writing Guide will help make this story interesting. Try for 1 to 1.5 pages in length. Tell what colour things are. Describe people. Demonstrate consistent verb tenses, and proper punctuation, capitalization and paragraphing. Informal and personal writing only. Be descriptive, colourful and interesting. (no informational pieces. No journalism) File name should start with DW3.
Oct 17
Reading Metacognition
Submit a piece that has a series of paragraphs telling me everything you can think of about books you read in class. For each book mentioned, tell a) something the book made you feel, b) something the book made you picture and c) something it made you think or wonder (that's three things per book). Do a paragraph talking about your most and least favourite kind of reading tasks for your various school courses. Mention the names of many authors, and titles of many books. Book titles need capitals and italics. Discusss your experience calculating your pages per hour and anything else you can think of. Use format #2.
Dec 1st
Submit an analysis of your three autobiographical books, following these instructions, to D2L, using format #3. Here is a link to the planning sheet you should have used.
Dec 19th
Autobiographical Film
Submit an analysis of Persepolis, following these instructions, to D2L using format #3.
Jan 16
Documentary Analysis
Submit a piece that has a series of paragraphs telling me everything you can possibly think of to say about three documentaries we watched in class or which you watched outside of class. Don't go into detail about exactly what information was conveyed (summarize that.) Use www.imdb.com for additional information about it. Talk about who made it, how it was made, and its bias or message. Use format #3.
Jan 22
Two Fates
Write two stories/scenarios, one giving a clear idea of how your life has likely turned out by 2034, given your having made all the best plausible choices, and one giving a clear idea of how your life has likely turned out by 2032, given your having made all the worst likely choices. Use Format #1 Be sure to include a lot of description and dialogue.
 
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