February 12, 2013
Today we will finish Genius hour presentations and if there is time, you will finally have your Literary Terms test!
February 4, 2013
Your Run Lola Run presentations are due today. You will need to hand in the assignment criteria sheet before the presentation and the response journals after you have made your presentation.
February 1, 2013
Today is your final work block for the Run Lola Run presentation. your presentation is due Monday, February 4, 2013.
After your presentation, you will hand in your criteria/mark sheet, and your notes and response journals.
January 24, 2013
Today you will re-respond to the quote you chose (see your notes from Run Lola Run and the instructions from January 16th). While the movie plays again in the background, work on your presentation.
January 21, 2013
Today we will watch a dramatization of a short story by Ray Bradbury, All Summer in a Day. We will also read the story, and compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the two. Next, complete the literary terms worksheet for the story. Complete the All Summer in a Day Literary Terms worksheet.
January 16, 2013
Today you will start a project for short stories where you will conduct an in-depth exploration of a literary term while watching the movie Run Lola Run.
Before watching the movie, complete a personal journal on one of the following quotes from the Run Lola Run prologue:
We shall not cease from exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot (Little Gidding)
After the game is before the game.
S. Herberger
The ball is round.
The game lasts 90 minutes.
That’s a fact.
Click here for the Run Lola Run Assignment criteria.
January 14, 2013
Finish your compare/contrast essay today and post it on your blog. We will also review literary terms relevant to our study of short stories and novels.
January 7, 2012
Today you all be looking at a story and a poem written by Aboriginal people. Aboriginal, or native North Americans, have a different view of humans’ place on the planet, and of human beings’ responsibilities to the planet that sustains us.
1. Click on the link to listen to the testimony of the author of the story you will read, F. Henry Lickers. Pay attention to his point of view. Take notes.
2. Now read the attached story by Henry Lickers (click on the page to enlarge it).
The story reiterates some of the statements Lickers made in his testimony. Make note of the differences – and similarities, if you can find them – between how we, as North Americans infused with a particular cultural ethic, view our responsibility to the planet we inhabit, and the how native North Americans view their place on the planet. Take notes.
This poem, “My Heart Soars, was written by Chief Dan George. Chief Dan George was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was also an author, poet, and an Academy Award-nominated actor.
3. Now compare and contrast the two pieces in an expository essay. Use the notes you took to note the similarities and differences. Post the essay on your blog under English.
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