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Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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“Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 7
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Check presentation progress (1pt)
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Sentence combining work
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Animal Farm Chapter 6
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Begin essay work
“The Bare Bones of the Five-Paragraph Essay”
“The Benefits of Cycling”
Friday, April 3
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Statutory holiday
Good Friday
Monday, April 6
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Statutory holiday
Easter Monday
Tuesday, April 7
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Presentations 1
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Animal Farm Chapter
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Essay work
Wednesday, April 8
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Presentations 2
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Animal Farm Chapter
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Essay work
Thursday, April 9
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Presentations 3
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Animal Farm Chapter
Friday, April 10
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Presentations 4
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Animal Farm
Final week- essay, movie
Monday, April 13
Tuesday, April 14
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday, April 16
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Optional replacement quiz and/or test
Friday, April 17- final day
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One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments
Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.
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Sentence Combining
Exercises for “French Fries”
Two ways to look at sentence combining:
1.coordination- compound
, SOBA ; ; TRANS,
2.subordination- complex
adv cl adj cl n cl
4-6
Then they are lowered.
slow
into oil
simple? compound? complex?
compound-complex?
Then they are lowered.
slowly(adv)
into oil
Slowly, then slowly they are slowly lowered
into oil slowly into oil.
7-9
Their bath crackles and foams because is it hot.
Their hot bath crackles and foams.
Their bath is hot and crackling with foam.
Their bath is hot, crackling and foamy. adj, adj, and adj PARALLEL
Fries are deep-fried.
They crackle and foam in the hot bath.
Their bath is hot, and it crackles and foams.
Their hot foamy bath with foam crackles.
10-12
The thinly-sliced potatoes release a puff of steam.
The potatoes which are thinly-sliced release a puff of
steam.
sweet-potato fries
tempura
13-14
They come out crispy brown and streaked with oil.
White Spot has ‘endless fries’.
“Coffee”
1-2 He sips at his coffee cup which is chipped along the
rim.
She nibbled on the cookie.
Did you have dinner yet? I nibbled on something.
Chew your food!
She savoured the delicious
dinner.
He savoured every minute of English class.
SLANG He scarfed down the burger. He wolved it down.
Don’t wolf your food!
You will choke.
3-5
The taste is bitter, acidic, and (also) faintly soapy.
He feels very bitter.
sweet, salty, sour, bitter
Life is bittersweet.
Wasabi goes into your sinuses.
6-8
There is a brown film on the inside of his cup.
The brown film is on the inside of his cup. denser
The film that is on the inside of his cup is brown.
overwritten
9-10
He takes extra care so that he doesn’t spill any on his
clothes.
He takes extra care to not spill any on his clothes.
He takes extra care because he doesn’t want to spill any on
his clothes.
He takes extra care to avoid spilling any on his clothes.
She avoids driving in rush hour.
The coffee will stain his clothes.
There is stained glass in the church.
The dentist will polish the stains off your teeth.
She got a cleaning at the dentist office.
11-12
He is afraid that it might eat holes in the material. – funny
She likes weak milky coffee.
He likes strong dark coffee. He likes espresso.
She prefers decaf.
decaffeinated coffee, half-caf
Coffee upsets my stomach.
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Animal Farm Chapter 5
Crossword
advocate(v) When you go to the doctor, you have to advocate
for yourself.
If your child is not doing well in school, you can advocate
for them.
advocate- lawyer
Sometimes you have to be a little bit pushy.
indifferent(adj)-
IDIOM He couldn’t care less.
crucial(adj)- very important, essential
gazing- looking for a time, relaxed, confortable, staring(negative)
That creep is staring at me.
gawking- staring in a creepy way
The young couple gaze into each other’s eyes.
unintelligible – can’t understand, incomprehensible
vague- not clear, not precise
astonishing(adj)- surprising, often in a negative way, shocking,
unbelievable
flabbergasted(adj)- very surprised, unable to belief
Apple has made many innovations with cell phones.
innovate(v)- create something new
nova - new
The South African doctor innovated a new heart transplant procedure.
procured(v)- acquired, bought
It is difficult for Korean manufacturers to procure chemicals
for the production of plastics.
It is challenging for the The Philippines to procure oil
right now.
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Chapter 6 Notes
“worked like slaves” (40)
Napoleon announces voluntary work on Sunday or “rations reduced by
half”
ration- daily amount of food
misusing words intentionally, confuse the animals who not able to understand
how they are being tricked
windmill, major challenge breaking stones
“desperate slowness” (41), “slow, laborious process” “exhausting
effort”
Boxer powerhouse/horse, get up earlier, tireless
animals naturally better at some tasks (e.g.weeding)
Napoleon opens trade (hay, eggs), employs Mr. Whymper, broker on
commission
animals uneasy, going back on resolutions. Principles
dogs growl, sheep bleat to silence dissenters (43)
Squealer spins, lies, reshapes animals memories
spin(v) – to lie about the truth in order to fool people
rumours Napoleon doing business with Mr. Pilkington or Mr.
Fredericks (45)
pigs move into farmhouse, sleep in beds
Fourth Commandment amended (45)
Squealer spins word 'bed'
raises specter of Mr. Jones
pigs sleeping in (46)
animals proud of windmill, focus of labours, except Benjamin
Napoleon blames destruction of windmill on Snowball
plant evidence- footprints, Napoleon “pronounced them to be
Snowball's” (48)
scapegoat – someone who you can blame, not actually guilty or
responsible
FREE ADVICE #14: If you want to know where the problem is, go look
in the mirror. Only you can fix it.
Don’t blame
anyone else. Don’t rely on anyone else.
Napoleon commits to rebuild windmill
At this point in the novel, the rebellion has been lost. Napoleon
has taken over as a dictator.
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