Looking for the Rainbow

English

Complete your response to Writer's Fest. This is due on Monday. Be prepared to share.
Tuesday is poetry Tuesday.
Wednesday is our 1984 quiz on part II.

Grad Trans 

If you did not finish your Post Secondary Round-Up complete that for Monday.

The Day we all went and listened to some poets

English

Think about the field trip today. Get ready to do something great with all that thinking.
Bl. C 1984. Chapter 10 questions for tomorrow.

Grad Trans

We will continue working on the Post Secondary Round Up.
Bring a laptop if you refer to work in my class.

I could not easily kill a two-year old!

English

Bring your permission slip if you have not yet (due yesterday).
Dress in formal. Be here to leave at 8:40.
Read chapter 10 for Thursday's class of 1984 with questions.

Grad Trans

Complete the Shattering Myths handout in class today (pre-discussion only).

Who caught my last typo? Annoying!

English

Read this Poem. Seriously. Do it!

Bring in your permission forms.

Grand Trans

No homework, per se.

A storms a brewing

    So it was feeling a little like this today...batten down your hatches, kids, we are in for a ride this weekend.

English 
Finish reading chapter 8 and questions
Journal entry #5
1. Write a satirical newsflash that might occur on television this week. Use the same enthusiastic tone Orwell parodies. Relate your reported event to a larger drive for peace, prosperity, victory, or some other goal.
2.  Write a poem in which you either praise the peoples and landscapes of our country or satirize them. Bring out both virtues and weaknesses.

sat·ire

ˈsaˌtī(ə)r/

noun

1. the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

   synonyms:

   mockery, ridicule, derision, scorn, caricature;

   • a play, novel, film, or other work that uses satire.

     plural noun: satires

     "a stinging satire on American politics"

     synonyms:

     parody, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, skit;

   • a genre of literature characterized by the use of satire.

Grad Trans
Complete the self-assessment sheet I gave you on Friday in class.

Columbia Bible Pizza

English 12

Chapter 5 & questions.

Grad Transitions

Nada.
If you are looking for the syllabus, please look in the archived blog posts under Sept 4th -11th.

Better late than never

English 12

Just a head's up, we will be journalling in class tomorrow so please bring your diary.
Also read chapter 4 and answer the questions.
(permission slips)