Thursday, 16 December 2021

EF56 22 class- noun cl, Literary Terms, conflict question

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

NOTE: Midterm recommendations

          Registration for Quarter 3 (Feb-Apr) will begin early in January.

          I will give midterm recommendations on Tuesday, January 4.

Midterm recommendations are a suggestion of how you are doing in the course.

The mark will be an average of the quizzes, tests, and spoken.

Quizzes are worth 6 pts each. 4/6 3/6

Tests are worth 12 points each. 3.5/6 DOUBLED 7/12

4/6 recorded as 8/12

 

Spoken is worth 10 pts. – dynamic, changes through the term

Your spoken mark will be based on how much I hear you using English in class, speaking out loud.

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Review Quiz#4 – noun clauses

·      Continue with “The Hockey Sweater”

Literary Terms-

Prep for Test tomorrow- focus on conflict

·      IF TIME Begin adjective clauses

 

 

Friday

·      Test#3 – paragraph about “The Hockey Sweater”

·      Xmas stuff

Bring snacks?

Have fun

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz #4 Noun clauses

Write a sentence that has a noun clause for each.

1.    think                     unfair

unfair(adj) unfairly(adv)

I think that the rule is unfair. ‘unfair’ describing ‘rule’ (adj)

I think that he was punished unfairly. ‘unfairly’ describing ‘punished’ (adv)

Sarah looks happy. (adj) ‘happy’ – ‘Sarah’

Sarah laughed happily. (adv) ‘happily – ‘laughed’

 

It is worth getting more adverbs into your writing.

‘ly’ slow(a) slowly(adv)

It is fortunate that you had an extra pair of boots. ‘fortunate’ (adj)

Fortunately, you had an extra pair of boots. ‘fortunately’ (adv)

 

near- close

nearly – almost did it

Jun almost won the race.

When I was little kid, I nearly drowned when I was swimming with my friends in a lake.

Nasrin nearly immigrated to Britain, but in the end, she chose Canada to be her new home.

Janet nearly married Fred, but ultimately she wound up staying single.

I was going to go to a party last Friday night. I wound up staying home.

wound up gerund – what you decided to do in the end, what happened finally

 

Sahara wanted to go to UBC. She wound up going to Langara.

I wanted to go snowboarding with my brother. Unfortunately, his wife wouldn’t let him go needed him to drive her to her yoga class, so I wound up going by myself.

 

 

2.    think                     winter

I think that there is not much snow this winter.

 

3.    know                     uniform

Chi forgot that he left his uniform in the car.

Jenny loves a man in uniform.

jersey- sports

 

4.    understand         famous

I don’t understand why Kanye West is so famous.

 

5.    say                         hockey

Mark told me that he used to play hockey in Australia.

 

6.    understand         childhood

Parents understand that early childhood is a very important time for a child’s development.

 

 

 

“Literary Terms”

 

Point of View – narrator’s position in the story

*first-person narration “I” “my” “me”

narrator is in the story, part of the story

very limited understanding

*third-person narration

not in the story, talking about the story, explaining

 

 

sarcasm – meant to hurt/make fun of somebody

 

-verbal irony – understand that you mean the opposite of what you say, not really funny

-dramatic irony-

-situational irony– you get the opposite result from what you intended

 

 

 

Paragraph tomorrow – focus on conflict

EXTERNAL CONFLICTS

person vs person

person vs society

person vs nature

person vs technology

person vs supernatural

INTERNAL CONFLICT

person vs herself/himself

 

“The Hockey Sweater” What are some of the conflicts?

EXTERNAL CONFLICTS

-person vs person- boy vs mother, boy vs friends, boy vs vicar, bot vs referee

-person vs society- boy vs his culture: sweater wrong team, French vs English Canadians,

-person vs nature-

-person vs technology- mom vs catalogue, got wrong sweater

-person vs supernatural

INTERNAL CONFLICT

person vs herself/himself – boy vs himself:

 

 

“The Hockey Sweater” What are some of the conflicts?

EXTERNAL CONFLICTS

-person vs person- boy vs mother, boy vs friends, boy vs vicar, bot vs referee

-person vs society- boy vs his culture: sweater wrong team, French vs English Canadians,

-person vs technology- mom vs catalogue, got wrong sweater

INTERNAL CONFLICT

person vs herself/himself – boy vs himself:

 

Tomorrow, I will ask you to write a short paragraph about one kind of conflict, e.g. person vs person.

Describe one person vs person conflict in “The Hockey Sweater”?

 

-choose one, focus on one

-talk about the one

-DO NOT GIVE ME A PLOT SUMMARY

-Focus in on the one conflict and write only about that. You can discuss the parts of the plot that have to do with the conflict. Please don’t tell me the overall story.

Zoom in on the one conflict.

 

Don’t talk about yourself. You are not in the story. This is not a first-person story about your life. Just talk about the story.

 

 

 

PLAN

Titanic

TS person vs herself, Rose against herself

1.    beginning Rose unhappy with life, fiancee, mother

2.    no confidence, no ability to stand up for herself, doesn’t know how to be assertive, powerless

3.    develops her inner strength, becomes assertive with fiancee and mother

4.    devlelops independence, strong character,

5.    person vs herself conflict resolved, gone

 

After the PLAN, then we write a nice paragraph

 

e.g. What is the person vs herself conflict in Titanic?

Grabber

Topic sentence:

          The person vs herself conflict in Titanic is the internal struggle that Rose has with herself as she learns to be independent from her mother and her fiancee.

 

A person vs person conflict in “The Hockey Sweater” is between the boy and his mother regarding the wrong hockey jersey that she incorrectly orders from the catalogue.

 

You can have the story out to consult. Don’t copy from the story.

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