Tuesday, 14 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

Animal Farm collect novels

Essay Plan

Five-paragraph essay to pass in

 

Wednesday, April 15

Review

Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

Return essay

RW for 1 point

Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

 

 

**

 

5-paragraph essays typically consist of an introductory paragraph, three supporting body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.

 

Introductory paragraph

 

Body paragraph 1- Reason 1

Body paragraph 2- Reason 2

Body paragraph 3- Reason 3

 

Concluding paragraph

 

 

The introductory paragraph should give a preview of what’s to come without giving it away. Each body paragraph should have supporting information, such as stories, facts, statistics, and more. The concluding paragraph should summarize the key points.

 

This is like following a recipe. I think about writing like cooking. A beginner writer has to follow a recipe very closely. When you get some experience cooking, you don’t need the recipe book anymore.

 

When you get comfortable writing essay after 3-4 tries, then you can follow your own style.

 

The style that I am teaching is very basic and clear. It is simple and ‘easy’ to do. You can get fancier with your essays later.

 

There are lots of different kinds of essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan first!

Then write.

 

1.PREWRITING – planning your essay, making a little plan to organize what you want to say in each paragraph in your essay

 

2.WRITING- actually writing the sentences and paragraphs

 

 

 

 

PLOs- Writing and Representing

C1- “using conventions, forms, and structures of writing”

*simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences-

verb tense, verb form, punctuation, spelling, etc

 

C5- “generate, develop, and organize ideas”

*clearly organized clear plan, on-topic

 

 

P1 EF71011 Class 38

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Animal Farm collect novels

·      Essay Plan

·      Five-paragraph essay to pass in

 

Wednesday, April 15

·      Review

·      Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

**

 

 

5-paragraph essays typically consist of an introductory paragraph, three supporting body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. For example, if someone was writing a 5 paragraph essay on why basketball is the best sport ever, their essay structure might look like this:

 

Introductory paragraph

Body paragraph 1- Reason 1

Body paragraph 2- Reason 2

Body paragraph 3- Reason 3

Concluding paragraph

 

The introductory paragraph should give a preview of what’s to come without giving it away. Each body paragraph should have supporting information, such as stories, facts, statistics, and more. The concluding paragraph should summarize the key points.

 

This is like following a recipe. I think about writing like cooking. A beginner writer has to follow a recipe very closely. When you get some experience cooking, you don’t need the recipe book anymore.

 

When you get comfortable writing essay after 3-4 tries, then you can follow your own style.

 

The style that I am teaching is very basic and clear. It is simple and ‘easy’ to do. You can get fancier with your essays later.

 

There are lots of different kinds of essays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan first!

Then write.

 

1.PREWRITING – planning your essay, making a little plan to organize what you want to say in each paragraph in your essay

 

2.WRITING- actually writing the sentences and paragraphs

 

PLOs- Writing and Representing

C1- “using conventions, forms, and structures of writing”

*simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences-

verb tense, verb form, punctuation, spelling

 

C5- “generate, develop, and organize ideas”

*clearly organized clear plan, on-topic

 

Monday, 13 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 37

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

Collect novels

Watch movie

·      Return Quiz 3

Optional RW for one point

·      Essay work

Five-paragraph essay Tuesday

 

Tuesday, April 14

·      Five-paragraph essay to pass in

Most of the class

 

Wednesday, April 15

·      Review

·      Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

**

l  Chapter 10 Discussion Notes

 

  pre-rebellion life forgotten, all original animals dead except Clover, Benjamin, Moses, some pigs

  No animals have ever retired

  Benjamin more or less the same, more “morose” and “taciturn” after Boxer

VOCAB “morose”- sad   “taciturn”-untalkative, silent

She is taciturn.

He is a motormouth.

 

She talks/laughs/yells in her sleep.

Butter yelps in his sleep.

 

  new horses- stupid, good workers, comrades, accept everything

  farm prosperous- animals not richer, except dogs and pigs

  many dogs and pigs

  FUNNY pigs write reports, immediately burned (87)

useless bureaucracy – useless government work, paperwork, paper-pushers

 

  animals - no memory of the past/ context to compare quality of life

  Benjamin recalls, cynical- not better or worse

  Squealer spins, always lying to the animals

 

  Animals feel hope “sense of

 

 honour and privilege” (87)

  “imperishable pride” “old heroic days” (88)

  patriotic about Animal Farm

 

VOCAB patriotic – love your country and like to show it

He is patriotic. She is a patriot.

 

 

New lyrics: True patriot love in all of us command.

Old lyrics: True patriot love in all thy son’s command.

 

O -old-fashioned poetic device- shows high emotion

 

  “All animals were equal”

  Squealer reeducates sheep:

     “Four legs good, two legs bad!”

“Four legs good, two legs better!”

 

  Pigs on hind legs, Napoleon with whip

 

  Benjamin reads aloud newly-changed single commandment (90)

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

 

  pigs wear clothes, smoke pipe, carry whips

 

 

  Big meeting, final scene of book

  pigs and humans together- all friends, speechifying, toasting

 

SUPERSTITION Toasting with water is bad luck.

 

  model farm “did more work and received less food” (92)

  common “labour problems” “you have your lower animals... we have our lower classes” (92)

  Napoleon not “subversive” or “revolutionary”, just want “normal business relations”

  farm co-op “owned by the pigs jointly” (93)

 

VOCAB co-op housing-

 

  renamed the farm, went back to the old name “Manor Farm”

  big fight, card cheats, indistinguishable- read final paragraphs (94-95)

 

BIG QUESTIONS:

What do you think will happen next on Animal Farm?

Will the animals rebel again? Will they not?

 

**

 

 

 

Quiz 3

Combine each group of sentences into one sentence.

Write your six sentences on your own paper.

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

 

1.     Everyone had to cook a dish.

The dish was from their culture.

Everyone had to prepare copies of the recipe.

This was done for our neighbourhood party.

 

Everyone had to cook a dish from their culture and prepare copies of the recipe for our neighbourhood party.

 

 

 

2.     We chose to take lentil soup because our family has German heritage.

 

3.     Mom supervised me while I chopped the onions and cut the bacon into small pieces.

 

4.     Then we had to compose the recipe; we really don't have a formal one, but

we couldn't arrive without our stack of recipe cards.

 

5.     That night we were treated to a feast of different food, including a wheat salad from the Middle East.

 

6.     The feast included a potato dish from Switzerland, a lamb dish from Portugal, and a super ice cream from Italy.

 

The feast included a Swiss potato dish, a Portuguese lamb dish, and a super Italian ice cream.

 

Change the word forms for parallelism.

 

Optional RW for a point- pass in today or first thing tomorrow.

 

P1 EF71011 Class 37

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Animal Farm Chapter 10

Collect novels

Watch movie

·      Return Quiz 3

Optional RW for one point

·      Essay work

Five-paragraph essay Tuesday

 

Tuesday, April 14

·      Five-paragraph essay to pass in

Most of the class

 

Wednesday, April 15

·      Review

·      Fun things

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Return essay

RW for 1 point

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

You can decide if you want to do the replacement quiz or test.

This is for the people who haven’t done it yet.

Replacement quiz- six sentence combining

Replacement test- paragraph

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

·      You can just chill. You can hang out and relax.

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

**

l  Chapter 10 Discussion Notes

 

  pre-rebellion life forgotten, all original animals dead except Clover, Benjamin, Moses, some pigs

  No animals have ever retired

  Benjamin more or less the same, more “morose” and “taciturn” after Boxer

VOCAB “morose”- sad   “taciturn”-untalkative, silent

She is taciturn.

He is a motormouth.

 

She talks/laughs/yells in her sleep.

Butter yelps in his sleep.

 

  new horses- stupid, good workers, comrades, accept everything

  farm prosperous- animals not richer, except dogs and pigs

  many dogs and pigs

  FUNNY pigs write reports, immediately burned (87)

useless bureaucracy – useless government work, paperwork, paper-pushers

 

  animals - no memory of the past/ context to compare quality of life

  Benjamin recalls, cynical- not better or worse

  Squealer spins, always lying to the animals

 

  Animals feel hope “sense of

 

 honour and privilege” (87)

  “imperishable pride” “old heroic days” (88)

  patriotic about Animal Farm

 

VOCAB patriotic – love your country and like to show it

He is patriotic. She is a patriot.

 

 

New lyrics: True patriot love in all of us command.

Old lyrics: True patriot love in all thy son’s command.

 

O -old-fashioned poetic device- shows high emotion

 

  “All animals were equal”

  Squealer reeducates sheep:

     “Four legs good, two legs bad!”

“Four legs good, two legs better!”

 

  Pigs on hind legs, Napoleon with whip

 

  Benjamin reads aloud newly-changed single commandment (90)

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

 

  pigs wear clothes, smoke pipe, carry whips

 

 

  Big meeting, final scene of book

  pigs and humans together- all friends, speechifying, toasting

 

SUPERSTITION Toasting with water is bad luck.

 

  model farm “did more work and received less food” (92)

  common “labour problems” “you have your lower animals... we have our lower classes” (92)

  Napoleon not “subversive” or “revolutionary”, just want “normal business relations”

  farm co-op “owned by the pigs jointly” (93)

 

VOCAB co-op housing-

 

  renamed the farm, went back to the old name “Manor Farm”

  big fight, card cheats, indistinguishable- read final paragraphs (94-95)

 

BIG QUESTIONS:

What do you think will happen next on Animal Farm?

Will the animals rebel again? Will they not?

 

**

 

 

 

Quiz 3

Combine each group of sentences into one sentence.

Write your six sentences on your own paper.

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

1.    We had not been looking forward to the move.

It was the smoothest in memory.

COMPOUND

We had not been looking forward to the move, but it was the smoothest in memory.

We had not been looking forward to the move; however, it was the smoothest in memory.

COMPLEX

Even though we had not been looking forward to the move, it was the smoothest in memory.

 

 

 

2.    We picked up the truck.

The truck was rented.

It was eight o'clock.

We drove to the apartment.

SIMPLE

We picked up the rented truck at eight o'clock and drove to the apartment.

 

3.    Our timing was perfect.

No one else was moving.

The elevator was free.

COMPLEX

Our timing was perfect because no one else was moving and/so the elevator was free.

 

4.    Four of us carried the furniture.

Four of us tied the furniture into the truck.

We did this in less than an hour.

SIMPLE

Four of us carried and tied the furniture into the truck in less than an hour.

 

5.    Even the plants did well.

None of them were damaged.

COMPOUND

Even the plants did well, and none of them were damaged.

COMPOUND

Even the plants did well because none of them were damaged.

 

6.    We were at the house.

It was ten o'clock.

The truck was empty.

We did this within two hours.

COMPOUND

We were at the house at ten o'clock, and the truck was empty within two hours.

We were at the house at ten o'clock; therefore, the truck was empty within two hours. LOGIC?