Sentence work coming up: causal
verbs- maybe this week
sentence
combining- after Spring Break
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Talk about sentence quiz Friday, Quiz 1
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“Midterm Self-Assessment Reflection”, getting
ready for midterm recommendation Wednesday and Thursday
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Midterm recommendations- half of the class
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Animal Farm Crossword puzzles, Chapter
1&2
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Animal Farm Finish Chapter 2
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Quoting section- Animal Farm notes
Thursday, March 12
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Midterm recommendations
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Sentence work
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Animal Farm Chapter 3
Friday- final day before Spring Break
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“Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 6
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Quiz 1- sentence quiz (20m at the end of the
class)
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Two-week Spring Break
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Quiz 1- mix of simple, compound and complex sentences, value
6pts (20m)
Sample Quiz 1
6 sentences
Write an appropriate sentence for each.
1.tomorrow walk- simple
2.so party – suggests compound SV, so SV.
3.friend however -suggests compound SV; however, SV.
4.store when -suggests complex- adverb clause SV when SV.
5.after home – suggests simple or complex-adv cl
6.if can – suggest complex sentence SV if SV.
1. Tomorrow
night, we will walk around the park that
is close to our apartment.
2. Mei
wants to go to the party, so she called me.
3. Dora
is my best friend; however, we rarely see each other.
4. Jun
will go to the store when he finishes work.
5. We
will clean our home after dinner. SIMPLE
We will clean our home after we have
dinner. COMPLEX
6. Let’s
go for a hike if you can. COMPLEX
COMPOUND SENTENCE- SV, SOBA SV.
SV;
SV.
SV;
TRANS, SV.
Review the work we have done on sentence types: simple,
compound, and complex.
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Midterm recommendations
Registration for Quarter 4 will begin Monday, March 30th.
You will be emailed a link that morning.
In order to register, you need a “Conditional Recommendation
for early registration.”
It is piece of paper that you keep. Also, the teacher writes
the recommendation in a file for the office.
-Attendance issue- late or absent a lot, chronic- often, all
the time
-Recommendation- stay in current level or go to the next
level based on marks so far
-% percentage- average of marks so far
-Tests
-RWs
-Spoken1
x/10
For early registration, the level is about 60%.
The final pass mark is only 50%.
At SHEC, we want the strongest students to move up.
If you are between 50-60%, you might be not be ready for the
next level.
NOTE: Many people use SHEC as a way of improving English for
life, jobs. etc.
The standards that the teachers follow are the BC Ministry
of Education standards.
We have 2 ½ weeks left.
To come:
Test 1?
Essay 1 or 2?
Quizzes 3-4?
Spoken 2 x/15
Presentation x/10 – hopefully is we have time
You have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up.
Today, this is just the midterm recommendation.
I will show you your marks and midterm average.
I will show you some comments based on the PLOs.
Feel free to take a picture of the comments. In am not able
to email them to you.
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Finish Animal Farm Chapter 2
erase
remnants of Mr. Jones reign
READ
PASSAGE pp13-14
Beginning of the new farm, morning after the rebellion
The animals have just come to control the farm
“But they woke at dawn as usual…”
symbolic – dawn, new day, new beginning
sun represents freedom, hope, new beginning
“speechless admiration” “could hardly believe it was all their own” (14)
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For scene when animals are in field after
rebellion (pp13-14)
“Choked-up feelings of emotion at liberation
are the surest sign that a moment of disillusion and disappointment is at
hand.”
Christopher Hitchens. A Long Short War:ThePostponed Liberation of
Iraq , Penguin: Toronto, 2003
so dark, so cynical
Snowball
and Napoleon equals, working together
Snowball
better writer (15), intellectual, learned- renames farm, paints seven
commandments, allusion to The Ten Commandments, Old Testament
Commandment
– serious rule
-based
on Old Major’s speech
-simple
rules that the animals can understand
missed
smoking, money, trade
accident?
or intentional?
Can the animals trust the pigs?
“the
milk had disappeared” (16)
Napoleon steals the milk- the pigs are corrupt
from the outset
corrupt(adj) corruption(n)- dishonest, stealing, lying politicians
or business people
VOCAB outset- beginning
old movie The Ten Commandments Charleton Heston
Chapter 1&2 Crossword
Clues
Across and Down
3 across mandate - strong rule, commandment
