Wed. Apr. 20 - Thurs. 21: Romeo and Juliet online play
- The lab is booked for today and Thursday.
- Start work on the Superheroes In Love project. (You will have 3 lab classes to work on this).
- Complete the following 6 tasks in the order below:
***Mon. Apr. 18: 30 mark quiz on Elizabethan Theatre / Romeo and Juliet Intro***
Thurs. Apr. 14 - Fri. Apr. 15
- Read Shakespeare In Loveoverview
**We will watch the movie Shakespeare In Love on Thursday and Friday. If you are absent either day, you can find the movie here on YouTube.
Tues. Apr. 12 - paragraph revision
- Review the slide notes on paragraph writing (below).
- Select your two best paragraph rough drafts. Review peer editing comments. Topics list for anyone who doesn't have two draft paragraphs: How does social media affect you and/or your peers? Is remixing content legitimate creativity or intellectual property theft? What is the most important public service announcement topic for teen audiences today?
- Type both paragraphs with revisions / corrections. Print them to hand in this class (12 marks each).
- Include: titles, topic / intro. sentences, supporting sentences, clincher / concluding sentences (double-space).
***Final Deadline for Term Work: Tues. Apr. 5*** ***Animal Farm unit test on Fri. Apr. 8 (100 marks)***
Fri. Apr. 8 Animal Farm online novel - 100 mark Animal Farm unit test (10 T and F on George Orwell; 10 Vocab matching; 10 matching historical links; 64 multiple choice; 6 mark paragraph question). Review all the notes handed out in class.
- When you finish the test, start work on the Romeo and Juliet introductory questions. Wed. Apr. 6 - Thurs. Apr. 7
- Review chapter questions - Watch theAnimal Farm Movie
Mon. Apr. 4 - Tues. Apr. 5
- 25 min. silent reading from Animal Farm
- Review chapter 5, 6, 7, 9 questions
- Review the dialogue writing sheets handed out in class:
Select one of the Animal Farm dialogue scenarios on your sheet
Work alone or with a partner to write an interesting single spaced half page dialogue
Who is Napoleon?
Napoleon, a Berkshire boar, is the main tyrant and villain of Animal Farm and is based upon Joseph Stalin. He begins to gradually build up his power, using puppies he took from mother dogs Jessie and Bluebell, which he raises to be vicious dogs as his secret police. After driving Snowball off the farm, Napoleon usurps full power, using false propaganda from Squealer and threats and intimidation from the dogs to keep the other animals in line. Among other things, he gradually changes the Commandments to allow himself privileges such as eating at a table and to justify his dictatorial rule. By the end of the book, Napoleon and his fellow pigs have learned to walk upright and started to behave similarly to the humans against whom they originally revolted. Napoleon's name adds to the novella's themes of totalitarian dictators rising from a vacuum of power and absolute power corrupting absolutely. The character's namesake, Napoleon Bonaparte, forcibly took control from a weak government in 1799, installed himself as First Consul and eventually crowned himself Emperor (Wikipedia).
To understand Stalin, the historical figure Napoleon the pig is based on, view Parts 1 to 5: Joseph Stalin: The Real History (Part 1) Joseph Stalin: The Real History (Part 2) Joseph Stalin: The Real History (Part 3) Joseph Stalin: The Real History (Part 4) Joseph Stalin: The Real History (Part 5)
*** Poetry test Blk F Mon. Mar 28; Blk. G Tues. Mar 29; Blk. E Fri. Apr 1***
Fri. Apr. 1, 2011 Animal Farm online novel
- 25 min. silent reading from Animal Farm
- Review chapter 3 and 4 questions
- Identify propaganda examples from Animal Farm and advertisements
Classroom:
- Group "propaganda" exercise:
---Review the "Types of Propaganda" handout.
---Take 4 sample ads collected during Thursday's class
---Use Post-It Notes to label the types of propaganda in each ad.
---Report your labels/discussion to the class.
Thurs. Mar. 31, 2011
- 25 min. silent reading from Animal Farm
- Review chapter 1 and 2 questions Animal Farm Synopsis
Orwell didn't include two phases of revolution in his story. This is one example where there isn't a tidy parallel between the book and the real history of the revolution. Animal Farm seems to lump together the Russian Revolution (February 1917) and the rise of the Bolshevik party (October Revolution 1917).
Activity:
- Read the definition of the word "propaganda" (see slideshow).
- Write the definition at the top of a blank piece of paper.
- Search the newspapers / magazines.
- Find one example of propaganda and paste it in the centre of your blank paper.
- Continue reading from chapter 3 - 5.
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a novella that can be described as a roman à clef (French for "novel with a key"), which is a work describing real-life behind a façade of fiction.
Although Animal Farm is short, it can be read and interpreted on several levels:
A "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can mean any far-fetched story that may feature folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and talking animals, and usually enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events (Wikipedia).
A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a "moral"). Fables can be described as a didactic mode of literature. They frequently have as their central characters animals with the ability to reason and speak (Wikipedia).
In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit (Wikipedia).
An allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in the narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself (Microsoft Encarta).
To appreciate the deeper satirical and allegorical elements within Animal Farm, it is important to have an understanding of the author, George Orwell, and the historical and political dynamics of his time.
*** Open Book Quiz (p. 117 - Glossary / Table of Contents) on Thurs. Mar. 17 (43 marks)*** *** Poetry Assignment #2 (4 blog assignments) Due Fri. Mar. 18 (40 marks)***
Fri. Mar. 18/11 - Poetry
- 20 min. of silent reading.
- View the DVD "Avoiding Plagiarism" and/or "The Raven"
- Library time to complete assignments (Poetry assignment #1 and Louis Riel poetry sheet) or sign out books for spring break.
- Remember to email poetry assignment #2 blogging projects by pasting a link to your blog into the email body. Write your full name and block in the subject line of the email.
Thurs. Mar. 17/11 - Poetry
- 20 minutes of silent reading.
- Open-book poetry test (43 marks). You can use your textbook, The Poet's Craft, and one page of notes.
- When you finish, continue to study or read quietly until all students have completed the test.
Wed. Mar. 16/11 - Poetry
- 15 minutes of silent reading.
- Review Part II of The Poet's Craft textbook from p. 117 to the end (including the glossary / index).
- You can bring one page of notes and your textbook to use on the poetry quiz tomorrow.
- Complete poetry assignment #1 (10 marks) and the Louis Riel poetry questions (20 marks).
Tues. Mar. 15/11 - Class 4 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- Sign into your blog at Blogger.com - Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 4 activity. See an assignment example below: ***Email completed blog with your full name and block in subject line. ***Paste the link to your blog in the body of the email.
- If you finish early, help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world by playing Free Rice.
Nature and Invention
Instructions for Drawing:
- Sign into Google Docs. Select Create New. Select Drawing.
- Click Insert. Select Text box (type or paste poem into text box)
- Add other artistic elements. When finished, click the arrow next to Share. Select Publish to the Web.
- Copy the Embed Code. Paste the code into your blog's Edit HTML view (at the bottom). - Change the dimensions near the end of the code to w=450 h=400 so it will fit your blog. - Click Publish Post on your blog. See the sample below:
Mon. Mar. 14/11 - Class 3 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- Sign into your blog at Blogger.com - Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 3 activity. See an assignment example below:
- If you finish early, help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world by playing Free Rice.
*** Short Story Unit Test on Tues. Mar. 8 (33 marks)***
*** Interim Reports distributed on Fri. Mar. 11*** *** Poetry Assignment #1 and questions on the Louis Riel story due Fri. Mar. 11***
*** Parent-Student-Teacher interviews on Tues. Mar. 15***
Fri. Mar. 11/11 - Class 2 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- Sign into your blog at Blogger.com - Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 2 activity. See an assignment example below:
Although John Scott's poem "I Hate That Drum's Discordant Sound" certainly contains a relevant message about the turmoil and devastation that is brought about by war, Edward Markham's poem "Outwitted" has greater relevance to the lives of most people in the world today. "Outwitted" is a short poem with a simple message. The poem's theme of "love thy neighbour" has relevance to many kinds of relationships such as families, friendships and the workplace. Sometimes family members do not get along, and it can take months or years for them to resolve issues that have caused a "falling out." Similarly, friendships may be disrupted and later be repaired as a result of one or both parties' efforts to re-connect. Finally, workplace relationships can be restored through the efforts of a caring mediator. Even though "Outwitted" is a very brief poem, its universal theme has widespread relevance for many people around the world.
Thurs. Mar. 10/11 - Class 1 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- In the computer lab, set up your blog at Blogger.com (sign in with your Google Docs username and password. Do not make a new account). You can customize your blog's privacy and comment moderation settings through your Blogger Dashboard "settings" and "comments" tabs. - Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 1 activity. See an assignment example below:
Love and Loneliness
All you need is love. John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Love and Loneliness
(a poem with borrowed lines)
Love and loneliness are two sides of that coin called emotion
(Of course there are others such as jealousy and devotion)
Love is a sailboat on calm blue seas
With sunnyskies and a warm soft breeze.
I love thee with a love I seem to lose. *
Could it really be the end of this cruise?
Now loneliness is a submarine that hardly surfaces for air
It is a child, homeless man or woman with an outcast stare.
My false friends leave me here to die alone **
Where is that coin? All I have is a stone.
In life we spin the coin:
Love - we win;
Loneliness - we lose.
* Line borrowed from "Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
** Line borrowed from "Wabanaki Song" translated by Charles G. Leland
Wed. Mar. 9/11 - Poetry
- 15 min. silent reading
- Start the individual Poetry Assignment #1 using The Poet's Craft textbook.
- Also, complete yesterday's assignment on the Louis Riel article questions. See Tuesday's post for links.
***Both assignments due on Fri. Mar. 11th***
Tues. Mar. 8/11 - Short Story Unit Quiz
- 15 min. silent reading
- Short Story Unit Quiz (33 marks) *** allowed hand-written term notes only
- Start work on the Louis Riel historical poetry assignment. Answers must be in complete sentences.
On February 17th, 2009 the Canadian Press reported that Louis Riel's final poems had been made public for the first time. Read the story and watch the video to learn more. Complete the questions (under the Assignments and Handouts heading in the right margin).
Mon. Mar. 7/11 - Short Story quiz review
- Review the Interactive Short Story Unit to prepare for the quiz (Tues.) Be sure to cover the elements/components of the short story and terminology.
- Use the same web site to listen to and read "Never" by H. E. Bates on p. 120 of Inside Stories II.
- Complete terminology notes using the long sheet handout.
- Review the slide show below.
**Bring your story notes on Tuesday to support your paragraph writing.
*** Short Story Unit Test on Tues. Mar. 8 (33 marks)***
Fri. Mar. 4/11 - Bring ear buds or headphones for Monday's lab class - Silent reading 15 minutes
- Select a story to read from the remaining short stories on the blue study guide.
- Complete the terminology notes for this story
- Blk. E: final paragraph - Why Media Matters
Thurs. Mar. 3/11 - Forgiveness in Families
- "Forgiveness in Families" was written by Canadian author Alice Munro (see Still Perfecting Her Craft). Munro is considered one of the world's best short story writers.
- Munro won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2009. It is the biggest international award for short story writing.
- Read the story on p. 93 and complete notes on the terms from the blue handout.
Wed. Mar. 2/11- North End Faust
Today, we're reading "North End Faust" by Ed Kleiman
The title of the short story "North EndFaust" contains a double allusion. These two allusions relate to the main character's place of residence in Winnipeg and to his faustian behavior as a university psychology professor. See the definition of faustian.
Tues. Mar. 1/11 - God Is Not A Fish Inspector
- You'll also be reading "God is Not a Fish Inspector" (Inside Stories II p. 42)
- Read the story and complete the terminology notes according to the long sheet instructions.
- Blk. G: final paragraph - Why Media Matters
Mon. Feb. 28/11 - House
- You'll be reading "House" (Inside Stories II p. 20), a story written by Jane Rule.
- Read the story and complete terminology notes according to the long sheet instructions.
- Block F: final paragraph - Why Media Matters
