Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Writing 521

Short Stories are due today.

In class today we will be working on showing vs telling in your writing

You will have a descriptive writing assignment to work on.

English 531

Tests today on Elements of Poetry

Monday, October 31

Writing 521

Please read section V in “A Rose for Emily”   Complete a timeline for this story, include, when Emily’s father died, when she began to date Homer Barron, the smell, the poision, her death, when the town people asked her to pay her taxes.

English 531

Start thinking about songs or poems you might want to share with the class

Friday, October 28

Writing 521

Children’s lit assignments are due Monday, we will be sharing them in class!

English 531

Students who wish to work on their bit strip comic at home the Classroom code is Eng531

Have a great weekend!

Tuesday, October 25

Writing 521

Groups will only have about 20 minutes to work on the Children’s literature assignment.  Although the due date has been moved to Monday, October 31, tomorrow will be the last time groups will have class time for these projects.

We will be starting short stories tomorrow!

 

English 531

Today we discussed our new class room policies and rules for our classroom.

Today we did a review of our short story unit.  Tomorrow we will be having a test on short stories.

Monday, October 24

Writing 521

Today we worked on our Children’s Literature assignment.

Groups need to come to class tomorrow ready to share with me how they used their time today and how they will use their time tomorrow.   Tentitive due date is Thursday, October 27.

English 531

Pop quiz on the first sections of “A Rose for Emily” 

Also, tomorrow students will be asked to fill in a questionnaire describing their role in our day-to-day class and identifying problems within our class.  Classes are being disrupted with interruptions, cell phones, and disengaged behaviour.  Our classroom goal is to repair these issues.

Monday, October 17

Today we are beginning our Short Fiction unit.  Introduction to short story powerpoint is attached in ‘pages”

All memoirs must be handed in ASAP

Wednesday, October 12

Writing 521

Today we covered some common grammar/mechanical usuage problems.  Tomorrow you will be working in groups to find a way to explain some of these mistakes to our classmates without using too jargon (a word one group will be covering)

For half of our class tomorrow we will be listening to, and asking questions of a representive from Mount St.Vincent University.

 

English 531

Today we read “One Mile of Ice” by Hugh Garner .  There were questions and vocabulary match ups to work on after.   All questions, work sheets and vocabulary sheets will be taken in and marked as “in class assignments”