Today’s
Agenda
- registration
for April term
You can
register for April quarter.
This message from the South Hill
principal:
Thanks for your
patience, we’re now able to resume registration for April Term. You can
let your enquiring students know the following and we will send out an
email through MyEd. Not all details for the term are worked out,
but we will continue to register.
Returning (current)
students may register for their next course in April by emailing an Advisor
- Students with last names beginning with A – L will
email Hollie hwilliams@vsb.bc.ca
- Students with last names beginning with M – Z will
email Dana dalvaro@vsb.bc.a
- International students will email
Joanne jamcleod@vsb.bc.ca
Students will need to
provide
- Their full name – Last Name, First Usual Name, First
Legal Name (if different)
- PEN and/or DOB
- Course(s) they wish to register for April Term
- Period they wish to register in (schedule is
online)
·
Link
to April schedule:
For new students – we
are working out a process for new student registration and information on this
will follow soon.
- final
report cards/ marks
I will
finish all of my marking and grading on Friday. I will email you your final
marks on Friday.
We will have
no class on Friday. I will be waistdeep in marking and emailing you. Tomorrow
will be our final Zoom meeting. If you don’t get an email from me on Friday by 2
o’clock, email and let me know.
-essays
Tomorrow
(Thursday), we will write an essay and you will send it to me by 1pm ( we will
pick a time tomorrow).
- next term
For next
term, your new teacher will get in touch with you.
I will send
an email to my new students next week. I will explain what and when and how we
will have our class.
- error correction
TYPICAL
ERROR
Second reason
that family is most important for me is even, I am not living with them
they still help me financially. XXX
The
second reason that family is most important for me is even though I
am not living with them, they still help me financially.
There
is a second reason that family is most important for me. Even though I
am not living with them, they still help me financially.
complex
sentences – adverb clauses
even
– even though
We
are going to go to the park even though it is raining.
Even
though it is raining, we are going to go to the park.
COMMON
ERRORS
My
family help me to come to Canada by coming to Canada whole my life have
changed.
My
family help me to come to Canada by
coming to Canada whole my life have changed.
My
family help me to come to Canada by
coming to Canada whole my life have changed. XXX RUN-ON SENTENCES
PARTIALLY
FIXED
My
family help me to come to Canada. By coming to Canada whole my life have changed.
My
family help me to come to Canada; by coming to Canada whole my life have changed.
Look
at the subject and the verb. Do they agree?
Look
at the verb tense- present, past, future?
POSSIBLE
FIXES
My family helped me to come
to Canada. By coming to
Canada, my whole life has changed.
My
family helped me to come to Canada; by coming to Canada, my whole life has changed.
You
have to be able to do that for yourself. A teacher won’t fix your sentences for
you.
TYPICAL
ERRORS
One
day I get mad and say something unnecessary they forgive me and they try to understand me.
RUN-ON
SENTENCE
One
day I get mad and say something unnecessary they forgive me and they try to understand me. XXX RUN-ON
SENTENCE
PARTIALLY
FIXED
One
day I get mad and say something unnecessary. They forgive me and they try to understand me.
One
day I get mad and say something unnecessary; they forgive me and they try to understand me.
Sometimes/Some
days I get mad and say something unnecessary rude/impolite/inappropriate.
They
forgive me and try to understand me.
SIMPLE
They
forgive me, and they try to understand me.
This
is the self-editing work that you have to learn how to do.
No
teacher is going to fix and rewrite all of these errors.
That
would be editing work, and it takes hours to do.
LET’S
FIX THIS UP AND MAKE IT BETTER
Listen
to the news become my daily things to do.
The thing that I want to be as usual is keeping my kids stay their routine
like school schedule.
1. How
many sentences should it be?
2. Check
SUBJECT + VERB
3.
Check verb tense and verb form
FIXED
Listening to the news has become
my daily thing to do.
‘listening’
gerund, sungular
POSSIBLE
FIXES
The
thing that I want to keep as usual/normal is my kids’ routine, like their school
schedule.
The
thing that I want – noun clause
The
thing that I most want to keep as normal as possible is my kids’ routine, especially
their school schedule.
I most
want to keep my kids’ routine as normal as possible; this is especially true
for their school schedule.
VERY AUTHENTIC ENGLISH
What
is most important for me is to keep things
as normal as possible; I make my kids stay on their usual everyday routine,
especially their school schedule.
What
is most important for me is a
noun clause.
The
most important thing for me is to keep things my
kids’ routines as normal as possible.
EXAMPLE
I most
want to keep the kids in routine as they are in the school.
FIX
I most
want to keep the kids on a routine just as if they were in
the school.
were-
subjunctive mood, imagine something that is not real
*Self-editing
tip #1: The secret here is to remember the three sentence types: SIMPLE,
COMPOUND, COMPLEX.
Every
sentence that you write has to be one of those types.
Review
SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX
*Self-editing
tip #2: Check your verbs!
verb
tense – Is it past, present or future?
verb
form- Is it an English verb?
I am
be living in Canada. I am live in Canada. vf
I living
in Canada.
Check
every sentence. Check every verb. Make sure it’s as good as you get it.
You
can do this! It takes time and steady work. No teacher can do that for you. You
have to do the work.
Keep
going. You can do this. You will continue to get better.
Sentence
combining exercises are very helpful.
For
tomorrow, we will write an essay in class time. Review the structure and format
of a five-paragraph essay (300 words).
I emailed essay
material to you a few days ago. If you don’t have it, email me and I will send it
to you.
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