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Feb 10 |
Descriptive Writing #1 |
Submit your first original, informal descriptive writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #1. For this first story, use past tense and third person. 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" |
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Feb 17 |
Descriptive Writing #2 |
Submit your second original, informal descriptive writing piece to D2L, using prescribed format #2. This format will make your story look just like an essay, but do not actually write an essay. Write a story. (You're just practising format for when we write the actual essays.) 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." |
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Feb 24 |
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." |
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Using the Assignment Sheet, write an essay on a non-school topic. 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." |
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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." |
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Short Fiction #2 and #3: 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." |
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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 at least three authors. For a passing mark, quote from each story mentioned, including the "Losing" story itself. Your filename should start with "TLS." |
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Read through William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Handwrite a plot summary, and then two paragraphs per chapter pair (ex: Chapters 3 and 4), with at least one quotation per paragraph, 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.
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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.) |
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