Good morning, everyone.
This is the 8:30 am class for these courses:
I strive to start right on time.
Split class of three classes:
English Foundations 5
English Foundations 6
Composition/Writing 567
If you do not recall which class you are in, I can tell you.
Are you in the right place?
We will get started at 8:30.
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Teacher: Al Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
This is my school email address.
Please use this email address when you email me.
first initial+last name @vsb.bc.ca
a + haley @vsb.bc.ca
‘Al’ is ok. first name is fine
Teacher Haley – translation , not
English
OLD JOKE: Call me
whatever you want; just don’t call me late for
supper.
dad jokes – not really funny, kind of a stupid joke, half
funny/half dumb
* complaining to the server cashier
/assistant/worker/ salesperson in the helium ballon store
“Don’t talk to me in that tone of
voice.”
* gender-neutral
terms salesman
I would like to call you by your first name if you don’t
mind.
If you have a English name or a nickname ??, just let
me know, and I will try to remember.
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Covid protocols: masks, clean hands
masks – can’t see faces, lose a lot- facial
expressions, lip reading
spray your hands, spray your desk
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Are you vaccinated? If not, get vaccinated. They
are safe and effective.
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EF5, EF6, CW567- These classes are at similar
levels, so it is a good split class.
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We will learn the same material. I will mark the
EF6 students a little harder than the EF5 students.
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2/3 of the students are EF5. This class will
skew a little bit easier.
It will still be plenty challenging!
Morning people
Night owls
INVITATION TO YOU:
Feel free to talk. This is a relaxed class. We will do a lot
of good work, but I try not to be really serious.
Have fun. Laugh a little bit. Learn a lot.
Enjoying what you are doing is very important- essential.
MY ADVICE: You have to find a way to enjoy whatever you are
doing. You’ll feel better, and you will do better work.
Today’s agenda:
Welcome!
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Discuss structure of course/overview of course
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Class procedures
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Quizzes and tests
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ICEBREAKER Spoken work- introductions
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Homework activity
Everyday I will post an ‘agenda’ -the topics to be covered
that day
business meeting, meeting – agenda- list of topics to be
dealt with in the meeting
Tuesday
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Classmate introductions
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Email protocol, emailing tests, attachments
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Goalsetting
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Begin sentence types- simple
Wednesday
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Continue simple sentences
I want everybody to know what is going on. I don’t want you
to feel lost.
**IMPORTANT NOTE:
Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my class blog
afterward.
I will update my blog every day after class.
The blog is here: haleyshec.blogspot.com
Write it down! You need this
URL: haleyshec.blogspot.com
haleyshec.blogspot.com
You can check the blog as much as you like. There is no sign
in, no password. It’s all public and accessible. I have people from all over
the world visit my blog. It’s cool.
Our blog is a tremendous resource that you can use. You can
use it this term. You can keep using it long after you finish this class, until
the end of time.
o Go to the blog now. Make sure you can
open it.
o Let me know if you are having trouble
opening my blog.
o Any trouble getting in? We’ll figure it
out. Let me know.
If yes? Good!
If no? Let me know.
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Overview of course
Course dates: Monday, November 15th
to Friday, January 28th. (Final day).
Monday to Friday, 8:30-10:45am
Regular high school – classes are 50m-1hr
VCC – some lectures are four hours
Nine weeks of class
Holidays –
* Non-Instructional
Day - Friday, November 26
* Christmas
holiday, The Holidays, Winter Break Monday,
Monday, December 20 to Monday,
January 3rd
Back on Tuesday?
* (New!)
Professional Development- Friday, Jan 21
Other days? I don’t think so, but I will let you know.
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Split class EF5, EF6 and EF567 writing
When you are successful in this
class:
English Foundations 5 --- move up
to next level, EF6
English Foundations 6 --- move up
to next level
Not called English 10 anymore.
You go to one of these courses:
1.English Foundations 7
2.Composition 10 and Literary
Studies 10 (used to English 10)
EF7 and Composition 10 &
Literary Studies 10 is the same class at South Hill
English 10 is now called
Composition 10 and Literary Studies 10
EF7/Composition 10, Literary
Studies 10 – taught together, very similar courses
Government rules:
-English Foundations 7 is for Graduated Adults. A Graduated
Adult is a person who had finished high school anywhere in the world.
-Composition and Literary Studies 10 (used to be called
English 10) is for people who have not finished high school anywhere in the
world.
e.g. under 19, students who turned 19 and aged out of
regular high school in Vancouver, left school young for many reasons: family
trouble; health problems- physical, pychological- depression, anxiety, etc; war
in their country; political unrest; got a job to support their family; not
allowed to go or were not able to go to school when they young
Wide range of reasons why people don’t finish school before
they are 19. No matter what the reason, you are welcome here. I am really glad
you’re here.
Composition Writing 567 is an auxiliary (extra) course. You
will still have to take your regular EF5 or EF6 to move up.
Sometimes people take EF6 and Comp/Writing 567 at the same
time.
*auxiliary- extra – on the back of your TV AUX, in your car
AUX, extra input
IF YOU WOULD LIKE EXTRA HELP WITH WRITING
Consider Composition Writing 567 – supplemental course,
extra writing instruction
Check the South Hill schedule: https://www.vsb.bc.ca/Student_Learning/Adult_Education/Documents/November%20schedule_list.pdf
NEW! My Tuesday night tutorials.
NOT PART OF OUR REGULAR CLASS – EXTRA
I do intake for new students on Tuesday nights.
Tuesday nights November 22- January 25 – 8 times/session
4:45-5:45 online teaching, everyone will be welcome
Zoom? Teams?
Focus on higher level sentence writing- EF56- Eng 12 level
MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!
STAYED TUNED!
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After EF7/CompLit10 – English 11 – English 12
English 11 – just one class, everyone together
English 12- just one class, every together
English 12 is the highest level English class for high
school.
Colleges and universities require English 12, for the most
part.
You can apply for post-secondary (college, university) with
English 12.
post-secondary – college, university
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All post-secondary programs will have their own
entry requirements.
Do you have some ideas what you
want to do after high school?
You can start to research what
prerequisites your postsec requires.
Go to the college website. Look up the program, Check
“ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS”
We have academic advisors at South Hill Education Centre
(SHEC) who can help you figure out post-secondary options, what programs are
available, and what the prereqs are.
Sylvia Blessin – advisor for this class
FREE ADVICE: Start to
make a plan now. Don’t wait.
Make a plan.
Follow your plan.
If you don’t have a plan yet, do
some deep thinking about it.
What is it you
want to do?
What do you want
to spend every working day doing?
Do you have a plan?
You can do it! Have confidence. Believe in yourself. When
you look in the mirror, say something encouraging to yourself.
** THE THINGS WE
WILL BE STUDYING IN THIS CLASS
FOCUS OF MY CLASS
*WRITING
- very
important, most important for school, high school, college, university, job,
life
· Being able to write
well is a wonderful gift that you can give to yourself. I can help. I will
teach you, but you have to do it.
FOUR SENTENCE TYPES
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND COMPLEX
I will teach you these in great detail.
We will do quizzes on sentence types.
PARAGRAPHS- different kinds of paragraphs
narrative writing
literary paragraph -writing about
short stories
MAYBE - ESSAY – several paragraphs together,
five-paragraph essay
* READING
short stories
poems
news articles, current events
No novel for this class
*LISTENING AND SPEAKING
-I will be talking a lot. You will be talking too.
I will speak at a normal pace, slightly slower than if I
were talking with my friends. It helps people to understand if you speak a bit
slower than usual. For expert examples of very good public speaking, listen to
CBC radio. 690 am. Listen to how the announcers speak. They speak at a
nice relaxed pace. News, interviews, interesting subjects
Commercial radio announcers tend to talk much more quickly.
My opinion – the quality of the discussion is very low.
e.g.
KISS FM,
· Speak as much as you
want. Chime in. Join the conversation. Don’t be shy. Ask as many questions as
you want.
· “Sorry. I have a
question. May I ask a question?” YES!! You don’t have to ask. Don’t be shy.
· I will be paying
attention to who talks and who is silent.
· Don’t be a Silent Sam
or a Quiet Quan.
· Be a Talking Tim and a
Chatty Cathy.
She is a Chatty Cathy. She likes to talk a lot. She is
gregarious. She is a very talkative person. She is very social.
He is very quiet. He is very taciturn. He never opens his
mouth.
He is as quiet as a mouse.
Some people are more extraverted. – seek social interaction
Some people are more introverted – prefer solitude and deep
connections with few people
People fall on the spectrum between extraverted and
introverted.
If you are quiet and shy, no problem. You still have to talk
in order to get better.
Sometimes we have to push ourselves out of our comfort
zones.
shy – afraid of social judgement
If you want to learn to swim, you have to jump into the
pool.
You can take the opportunities to use English in your daily
life.
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YOUR MARKS WILL COME FROM THESE:
-QUIZZES- worth about 27-28% of your mark
Quiz1- 6 simple sentences
Quiz2- 6 compound sentences
POSSIBLY Quiz2b- 6 compound sentences
Quiz3- 6 complex sentences with adverb clauses
Quiz4- 6 complex sentences with noun clauses
Quiz5- 6 complex sentences with adjective clauses
Quiz6- 6 compound complex sentences
Vocabulary for the quizzes will come from the non-fiction
and news articles we read together in class. We will choose the vocabulary for
the quiz together.
After we have finished all of the quizzes, there is a
POTENTIAL opportunity for a replacement quiz, with which you may replace one of
your quiz marks. The replacement quiz will cover all of the sentence types, not
just the topic of the quiz you are replacing. You will have to sign up for this
replacement quiz. I will talk more about that in a few weeks.
· TESTS- worth about 56-58%
of your mark
Test1,2,3,4,5?- 150-200 word paragraphs on the topic we are
covering at the time.
After we have finished all of the tests, there is a
POTENTIAL opportunity for a replacement test, with which you may replace one of
your test marks. The replacement test will cover a new topic, not the topic of
the test you are replacing.
You will have to sign up for this replacement test.
-CONTINUE TOMORROW-
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