English 10
Here's what our media project will look like for Animal Farm. We'll be exploring journalism. You have options:

1. Develop a newspaper. This is a collaborative effort and it's designed on the cloud using google docs. Here's a template you might use. There are a few important jobs for this paper:
1. Editor: this is the person who makes the newspaper organized and look good. Often responsible for placement of images and deciding on the fonts and organization. There isn't as much writing for this job, but you must have the technical know-how to put it together and make it look like a newspaper.
2. Journalist: This is the author for articles to go into the paper. There are several types of journalists - sports, weather, breaking news, global news, and local news are the most common specialties. If your group has a weather journalist, they must also work on one other area. The journalist can be the photographer as well, but since this is the internet, there are plenty of images for your use.

1. Develop a news blog. Take a look at gawker.com. You can use blogspot or blogger as well. Create a blog that recreates the events of Animal Farm as a citizen of the farm. What's been going on? How have recent changes changed the face of the farm? Gossip? Drama? Blogs have images and are also perfectly capable of demonstrating journalism. For this assignment, they do not need an editor.

The project should reveal some major events of the novel as we progress. Blogs are a lot more editorial, meaning they typically come with a lot more opinions than a newspaper (keep in mind that Gawker does use the blog format to report news). Newspapers are less personal and focus more on telling and explaining the event. Newspaper groups should not be larger than 5 people; blog groups should not be larger than 3 people.

ELL Social Studies

1. What animals are goats similar to?
2. How are they similar?
3. What kind of face do goats like to see?
4. Why are goats able to understand human feelings? (2-4 sentences)

English 10
Question Time!
Take another look at the short story "Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Try these questions: 1, 2, 4, & 5.

ELL Social Studies
Surprise! It's our first cold writing sample. Here's our topic:

Describe your favourite place in as much detail as possible. Explain why this is a great place to visit or live.

English 10

Topics for Tell Tale Heart? Here you go!

Cleverness

Guilt

Madness/Insanity

Home

Time

English
Take a look at all these FEET!

iamb
I s'pose the flats is pretty green up there in Ironbark

Anapest
"And today the Great Yertle, that marvelous he
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see."

x	x	/	x	x	/	x	x	/	x	x	/
And	to-	day	the	Great	Yer-	tle,	that	Mar-	vel	ous	he
	x	/	x	x	/	x	x	/	x	x	/
	Is	King	of	the	Mud.	That	is	all	he	can	see

Foot type	Style	Stress pattern	Syllable count
Iamb	Iambic	Unstressed + Stressed	Two
Trochee	Trochaic	Stressed + Unstressed	Two
Spondee	Spondaic	Stressed + Stressed	Two
Anapest or anapaest	Anapestic	Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed	Three
Dactyl	Dactylic	Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed	Three
Amphibrach	Amphibrachic	Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed	Three
Pyrrhic	Pyrrhic	Unstressed + Unstressed	Two

(Wikipedia sourced)

That's the foot. How many feet you have in a line is the meter.

1. Monometer
2. Dimeter
3. Trimeter
4. Tetrameter
5. Pentameter
6. Hexameter

ELL 1/2 Social Studies
Hurricane Florence Roars Into Carolinas News!

1. What is a hurricane?
2. When did the hurricane reach land?
3. How many people have died so far?
4. How many km/h was hurricane Florence when it arrived? (1mp/h = 1.66km/h)
5. How many rescue workers are helping people? What are they doing to help?
6. The governor said, "a storm like this comes along once every 1000 years." Is he right? Check the article! Explain.

English 10
The Tell-Tale Heart is not for homework. This is something we'll do in class.

Now that our first creative writing assignment is done, we're going to do some peer editing. Editing first! This part is straight forward.

1. Exchange with a partner.
2. Answer the most important question: IS IT ENGLISH?
3. Check for spelling.
4. Check sentences.
5. Check paragraphs.
6. Do you feel the story is complete?

Let's examine tone in your work.

Tone, is the attitude of a writer towards a particular subject. In this case, it's your attitude about the world Harrison Bergeron lives in. Try these questions:

1. Read through your story.
2. On a separate page, write out as many examples of tone that you've put into your story. It might be a single word, or it might be a phrase. Keep this page to yourself.
3. Exchange your story with a different partner.
4. Read through it. Do the same thing. Find words and phrases that show the author's tone. Write them down.
5. Return the story to the author.
6. Meet with the author. Did you both find the same words and phrases that reveal the author's attitude? If YES - you have succeeded. When we read a story, we should generally agree on the TONE. If NO - you might want to think about revising! This is a great chance to discuss the effectiveness of tone in your creative writing.

English 11
We've begun work on group short story projects. The criteria has been through several changes, as our reading list has changed. Our reading list is based on the short story list in the classroom.

CRITERIA.

English 11
During class, we'll find evidence to support the following themes in "The Lottery".

• The female identity is subverted in a patriarchal society. This is typically a definitive component of patriarchal societies, but considering this is in "The Lottery", what is Jackson's purpose?

- The wives have to walk behind the men

- Mrs. Hutchinson arrived late, doing housework

- Men have to draw for the families

• Society needs someone to blame in order to escape their own irrational thinking and guilt.

- Tessie blaming Mr. Summers for not giving her husband enough time to pick in the lottery

- Tessie dies

• Traditional values are blind.

- "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"

- People are killing each other, even though the town population is already small

- Tradition of the lottery is exemplified by the black box -- black box is a symbol of blindness

- Old Man Warner is old so he should be wiser, but he's not because of his blind faith in tradition

• Mob psychology disempowers the individual.

- When Tessie is protesting the lottery, no one fights for her and everyone has a mutual consent to killing her

- The children still collect stones to be used later, even though they might not understand what is going on, they still follow

- The children were born where the lottery was the norm, so they don't see anything wrong with it

• Cruelty and violence can take place in any setting (peaceful and dangerous contexts alike)

- Usual functions take place in the same place as the lottery

- Presented as an ordinary town

English 10
Hey it's Harrison Bergeron! Today we're:

1. Read the story (INSIDE STORIES II)
2. Make a DEJ.
3. Do #4 at the end of the story.

English 11

The context of "The Prize".

Consider other narratives where there has been a lottery. What common elements do they borrow from Shirley Jackson's work?

ELL 1/2 Social Studies
We're making a map of Canada!

1. Outline Oceans BLUE.
2. Label all PROVINCES and TERRITORIES. Use a PEN.
3. Label each Capital City and the Capital of Canada. Use a PEN.
4. Label each Ocean. There are THREE OCEANS around Canada.
5. Label the GREAT LAKES.
6. Use a DIFFERENT COLOUR for each province. Don't use blue.

English 11
Please finish "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Do #5 a/b/c at the end of the story and complete a DEJ.


Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263)
BY EMILY DICKINSON


Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —