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Today’s agenda:

1. Orange Shirt Day

September 30th is Orange Shirt Day.

remember the First Nations students who were forced to go to Residential Schools in Canada, many of whom were treated very badly, and thousands of whom died.

Residential Schools – government program Canada

took children from their parents and homes

put them into these government schools

run by church- Anglican or Catholic

1830 – Canada gov – get rid of First nations peoples

-make children forget language, culture, family, community, society

- trained to be domestic servants, workers

“take the Indian out of the Indian”

10s of thousands of children taken away – age 6,7,8 

kept in school until 18

limited contact with their families

- last Residential School closed in 1996, 24 years ago

- 160 years 

- little kids were forced to speak English or French

- heavily punished if they spoke their own languages

- beating, starving, put out in the cold, locked up, 

- many children suffered great abuse – physical abuse, psychological abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse (grown men raping children)

- many children died, mass graves found

- 150000 children

Orange Shirt Day is a small symbolic reminder of what happened to these people, and what it still happening.  

last school 1996 – after affects are still very present

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools-in-canada-interactive-map

- 160 years of abuse and turmoil – violence against

- First Nations Peoples – high suicide youth suicide

- drug abuse 

- alcoholism

- domestic abuse

- lower life expectancy (10 yrs)

- low high school grad rates

Serious problems – much of which can be traced back to the multi-generational trauma of Residential Schools

lots of racism toward First Nations People

Res Schools – not taught in school up to just a few years ago.

I learned about Res Schools mid 90s

What did they learn about love, caring, self-respect?

160 years of Res School is a bid reason why First Nations Peoples are not doing well.

This has to change. How?

My opinion: Education is a big key.

Education leads to better jobs, sense of self-worth, personal success, financial success, model for others in the community

I’ll do a segment on this in a few weeks.

Lots of hope. It’s not all bad news.

-at least 15000 years, 20000 years

-ok until Europeans shows up in the 1500s, especially from the 1800s

t-shirt, Haida design

Residential schools were paid for by the Canadian government and run by the churches- Anglican, Catholic

“savages” “heathens” – no religion

churches wanted to convert people – all around the world Catholic converted local people (1600s- today)

e.g. The Philippines – mostly Catholic

- tremendous physical, psychological, and sexual abuse that these children suffered

- the churches covered it up for decades

We stand in solidarity with these children and remember them.

Heavy topic. Important -Canada has lots of good, lots of bad, too.

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The VSB wants to know the best ways to advertise Adult Education to new students.

HW Answer the survey and then send me a note saying that you did.

3. Confessions writing- discuss

BBC Confessions – chose one and listened a few times

- funny stories e.g. swimming hotel pool, no bathing suit,

restaurant – people laughing at him, pool glass wall restaurant 

You wrote a short summary of the story. (150-200 words)

Tomorrow: “Dead Man’s Path”

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We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda

1. Orange Shirt Day – remember survivors and victims of Residential Schools in Canada

Government programs from 1880s until 1990s- Aboriginal children taken from their families, taken to state-run schools – make these children forget about their home language, forget their home culture, learn to be more like mainstream Canadians

- thousands of stories of abuse of these children – physical abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, death, starvation, neglect

Aged 6-18

- generational trauma – First Nations Peoples in Canada

reeducation – “take the Indian out of the Indian”

- take away language, culture, history, break their connection with their people

- “it was to erase their identity”

- train these children to be domestic servants – maids, manual workers

Children were beaten and starved when they spoke their own language in the school. They were forced to speak English or French.

- thousands of deaths of these children in these schools, mass graves, found even recently

-sexual abuse

first Residential School opened in 1831?

last Residential Schools closed in 1996, 24 years ago

160 years of Residential Schools

- multiple generations, 8-9 generations of people

- lots of people still around who went to 

Residential Schools

- often have serious problems – emotional, psychological

- dealing with substance abuse – booze, alcohol, drug

- violence, domestic abuse, child abuse

- A child raised with violence is likely to be violent to their own children. 

let out of school at 18 – What have you learned about love, caring, self-respect?

likely learned only violence, self-loathing, anger

This has to change!

First Nations high school graduation rates are very low- 68%

Mainstream Canada – 90%

Education is key!

- life expectancy is much lower – die 10 years earlier

Young First Nations is the largest growing demographic in Canada.

My Opinion: Education is a big key!!

Education leads to good jobs, more self-respect, models for 

the community.

Canada has taken some steps toward admitting their culpability, steps toward reconciliation, steps toward healing

Orange Shirt Day – one very small symbolic acknowledgement of the damage done to First Nations Peoples by Canadian government, representing the people of Canada

2. Adult Education survey

How did you hear about Adult Education?

Then VSB will know the best places to advertise.

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HW Please do this survey and then send me a note telling me 

that you did it.

3. Finish sentence combining

5. The concert ended at 11.

We were hungry.

We left GM Place.

We went to our favourite restaurant.

a. We left GM Place after the concert ended at 11, and we went to our favourite restaurant. NO ‘hungry’

b. The concert ended at 11, so we left the GM place and went to our favourite restaurant. NO ‘hungry’

c. We were hungry because the concert ended at 11pm.

d. We were hungry after the concert ended at 11, so we went to our favourite restaurant. COMPOUND COMPLEX

6. We arrived home.

It was late.

We were tired.

We were happy.

a. When we arrived home late; （we were） tired and happy. RW, not English

b. It was late when we arrived home, and we were tired and happy.

c. Although we were tired but we were happy. XXX

Although we were tired, we were happy.

We were tired, but we were happy.

4. JP Chapter 4, Part 2 “Jung-Sum, second brother”

5. Using quoted material

** I have had a few requests for rewrites. In my usual in-class courses, I offer bonus points for rewrites of tests. (1pt per RW).

I haven’t been doing those since May because of the volume of emails.

Quizes, tests, and essays- average

Last week – one makeup test to replace a low mark

Decide which test or quiz you want to replace the mark for. On the last week, you will have an opportunity to rpelace the mark with the mark from a special test on the last week.

e.g. Quizzes  3/3, 2/3, 1/3, 2.5/3

Tests 5/6, 2/6, 3/6, 6/6, 4.5/6

You decide which one mark you want to replace. Tell me. Then write the special test on the final week.

“I want to replace the test we did on October 4 for which I got 2/6.”

That’s your job to figure that out for yourself.

Comments: “Vague in places” “Broad point” “Vague point”

the writing does not refer specifically enough to the story

e.g. “Wang Bak paid a lot of attention to Jook Liang” VAGUE

“Wang Bak paid a lot of attention to Jook Liang’s tap dancing.”

“They spend a lot of time together.” VAGUE

“They spent a lot of time together going to movies.”

Jook Liang is the narrator of Part 1- we have insight into her inner thoughts, the story is told through her eyes.

Wang Bak – we do not get his first person perspective, don’t get inside his head, instead we read what he says and what he does

Any book has point-of-view (Literary Terms)

1. first-person point of view “I” – special insight into the heart and mind of another person, great beauties of reading

2. third-person point of view “he”, “she”, “they”

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Today’s agenda

1. Share sentence combining from homework

2. Test #3 - Confessions writing

3. HW Read “Dead Man’s Path”. I emailed this to you a few 

minutes ago.

Let’s share some of our sentence combining work from HW:

Combine each group of sentences into one longer sentence.

1. We talked for a long time.

We were talking on the telephone.

Our telephones were cellular.

Our telephones were new.

a. We talked for a long time on our new cellular telephones. SIMPLE

2. We talked about our plans.

The plans were exciting.

The plans were for a concert.

The concert was at GM Place.

a. We talked about our exciting plans for the concert at GM Place. SIMPLE

a. People were finding their seats, and yelling at noisy, and crowded GM Place.

b. GM Place was noisy and crowded because people were finding their seats and yelling at the same time.

c. GM Place was noisy and crowed. People were finding their seats and yelling.

d. GM Place was noisy and crowded, so the yelling people were finding their seats. , so – the reason why

The yelling people were finding their seats, so GM Place was noisy and crowded.

e. GM place was crowded with noisy noise and yelling because people were finding their seats.

f. GM place was noisy and crowded; meanwhile, people were yelling and finding their seats.

g. People were yelling and finding their seats at noisy and crowded GM place. awk

h. GM place was noisy and crowded so that people were yelling to and finding their seats.

People need to become more familiar with English.

4. We looked for our seats.

Our seats were all in one section.

The section was on the floor.

We stayed together in a group.

a. We looked for our seats that were all in one section on the floor, and we stayed together in a group. COMPOUND COMPLEX

b. We stayed together in a group, and we looked for our seats that were all in one section on the floor.

c. We looked for our seats that was were all in one section that was on the floor and stayed together in a group. SV? too far apart

We looked for our seats that was were all in one section that was on the floor, and we stayed together in a group.

d. We looked for our seats which were all in one section on the floor, so we stayed together in a group.

5. The concert ended at 11.

We were hungry.

We left GM Place.

We went to our favourite restaurant.

 

a. The concert ended at 11, and we were hungry: ; therefore, we left GM place and went to our favourite restaurant. semicolon, not a colon

b. We were hungry when the concert ended at 11; as a result, we went to our favourite restaurant when the concert ended at 11. REP

c. We were hungry when we left GM place where the concert ended at 11, so we went to our favourite restaurant.

d. The concert ended at 11; after that, we were so hungry that we went to our favourite restaurant after we left GM place.

e. We were hungry, so we left GM Place to go to our favourite restaurant. NOT ALL INFORMATION INCLUDED

6. We arrived home.

It was late.

We were tired.

We were happy.

a. When we arrived home, although it was late and we were tired, we were happy.COMPLEX

b. We were tired when we arrived home, but we were happy. Missing ‘late’

c. When we arrived home late, we were tired and happy.

d. Even though it was late and we were tired when we arrived home, but we were happy.

e. It was late when we arrived home tiredly, but we were happy.

f. We arrived home late; we were happy even though we were tired.

g. We were tired and happy when we arrived home late.

h. It was late when we arrived at home, and we were tired and happy.

i. We arrived home late, tired and happy. Nice! Very natural sounding.

j. It was late, but we arrived home tired and happy.

Good work!

SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, COMPOUND COMPLEX

She was 18. He was 46. Creepy!

He met her when she was 12. They announced their relationship when she was 18.

Music is very important to me.

1. Family

2. What’s for supper?

3. Music

Sometimes people say they cannot sing. I don’t believe it. I think people sometimes try to sound like someone else. If you sing with your own voice, it will sound just fine. There is no mistaking a true, honest voice singing.

Test #3 – paragraph (150-200w)

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You listened to one of the Confessions stories.

Write a short summary of the story.

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We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda

1. Sentence combining

2. Test #2- Paragraph on JP Ch1-3.

3. HW Read JP Chapter 4 for Wednesday, make notes on the Thought Questions

Part 2 “Jung-Sum, second brother”

Your questions about JP Ch3 the bone shipment

Q: I still don’t know why Wong Bak goes back to China. Does he want to bone shipment? or is he protecting other people’s bone shipment?

A: The families in Chinatown need someone to go with the bone shipment to make sure it goes smoothly. He is going as the facilitator of the bone shipment. Presumably, he will organize the transportation and reburial ceremonies in China.

facilitator – helps organize a meeting, conference, is not directly involved

A: Maybe Wong Bak doesn't have enough money to pay the head tax and other charges. As the novel said,  he received the fifty dollars from Jook's father.

Also, he wanted to go back to his home, doesn’t want to die in Canada, bones must go “where they belong” ~~

“the Head Tax” – 150 years ago, a special tax put on only Chinese immigrants, high cost, designed to keep out Chinese from Canada, part of Canada’s racist past – complicated country, full of contradictions- freedom, racism, equality, inequality

- ambiguity in a complex novel

- as readers, we have to be able to tolerate ambiguity, spice of the November

- clear cut, simple, story with no loose ends would be childish and not thought-provoking

- sometimes our questions cannot be answered

Good unanswerable question: “Will Poh-poh want to be buried in China, her home country, or will she want to be buried in Canada where her family is?

War in China in the 1930s – China and the invading army of Japan

in the 1940s – Second World War

in the 1950&60s – Civil War, major civil upheaval of the Cultural Revolution

-any Chinese person in the 70s and older will remember that

All of our governments lie (not tell the whole truth) through education. Every country has a dark history.

Your example of sentence combining.

Combine each group of sentences into one longer sentence.

1. We talked for a long time.

We were talking on the telephone.

Our telephones were cellular.

Our telephones were new.

We were talking for a long time on our new cellular telephones. SIMPLE

2. We talked about our plans.

The plans were exciting.

The plans were for a concert.

The concert was at GM Place.

We talked about our exciting plans for a concert at GM Place. SIMPLE

3. GM Place was noisy.

GM Place was crowded.

People were finding their seats.

People were yelling.

a. GM Place was noisy and crowded; also, people were finding their seats and yelling. 

b. GM Place was noisy and crowded, and people were finding their seats and yelling.

c. When we get there, the GM place was noisy. NOT ACCURATE

d. GM Place was noisy and crowded where because people were finding their seats and yelling.

e. GM Place was noisy and crowed, Because people were finding their seats and yelling.

GM Place was noisy and crowed because people were finding their seats and yelling.

4. We looked for our seats.

Our seats were all in one section.

The section was on the floor.

We stayed together in a group.

a. We stayed together in a group while we looked for our seats which were are all in one section on the floor.

b. We looked for our seats were all in one section and the section was on the floor that is why we stayed together in a group punc

We looked for our seats were all in one section on the floor; that is why we stayed together in a group.

c. We looked for our seats where which were all in one section that was on the floor, and we stayed together in a group.

d. We were looking for our seats together in a group because our seats were all in one section and on the floor.

5. The concert ended at 11.

We were hungry.

We left GM Place.

We went to our favourite restaurant. 

6. We arrived home.

It was late.

We were tired.

We were happy.

We will finish these tomorrow.

Test #2 paragraph (150-200w)

Email it to me by 9:50.

Font size, doublespace.

Discuss why Jook Liang’s and Wong Bak’s friendship is so important to them both.

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We’ll get started at 11.

Today’s agenda

1. Share sentence combining from homework

Tomorrow- Confessions writing

Sentences – simple, compound, complex

Sentence combining – useful, practical ways to get better at sentence writing

- taking several short sentences and combining into one longer, more complicated sentence

1. Start with the Kernel

2. Find new information in the following sentences.

3. Choose how you want to combine them. Choose what kind of sentence you want to write.

Goals for sentence combining:

1. Compact sentence

2. Dense sentence -lots of meaning in as few words as possible

3. Avoid repetition

Sentence combining exercises.

The first sentence will be the kernel. Find new information in the other sentences. Add the new information to the 

kernel. Remember that every sentence you write has to be simple, compound, or complex.

AIR SHOW

1. The air show attracts locals. KERNEL – main sentence, everything will be attached to this

The air show attracts tourists. new information

There are thousands of people.

The show grows bigger.

The show grows every year.

The air show attracts locals

tourists

There are thousands of people.

grows bigger

every year

SOLUTION – VERY QUALITY SENTENCES

The air show which attracts thousands of locals and tourists grows bigger every year.

The air show which attracts thousands of people, including locals and tourists, grows bigger every year.

The air show which grows bigger every year attracts thousands of locals and tourists.

The air show attracts thousands of locals and tourists, and it grows bigger every year.

The air show attracts thousands of locals and tourists; in fact, it grows bigger every year.

2. Jets fly overhead.

They are screaming.

They fly low.

They fly in teams.

Their pilots display skills.

YOUR SOLUTIONS (in Chat to share):

1. Jets fly low overhead in teams, and they are screaming; also, their pilots display skills. Combine more fully

Screaming jets fly low overhead in teams; also, their pilots display skills.

2. The pilots display their skills with flying the jets overhead. They are screaming, fly low and in teams. parallelism

They are screaming, fly low and in teams. screaming (v), fly (v) – different form of the verb  prep phrase

They are screaming and flying low in teams. MUCH BETTER - parallel

3. Jets are screaming and flying low, overhead, and in teams; so that their pilots display skills. awk  punc

Jets are screaming and flying low and overhead in teams as their pilots display skills.

4. Jets fly overhead they are screaming and low in teams; their pilots display skills. RO

Jets fly overhead screaming and low in teams; their pilots display skills.

5. Jets fly screaming overhead and low in teams, their pilot display skills.

6. Jets fly overhead they are screaming fly low in teams; however, their pilots display skills.  RW

7. Jets fly overhead in low teams, and their pilots display skills.

8. As the jets are flying overhead, low , and in teams; so, people are screaming for their pilots display skills. punc

As the jets are flying overhead, low, and in teams, people are screaming as the pilots display their skills.

9. When screaming jets fly overhead,  their pilots display skills by flying low and in teams.

MY EXAMPLE

Their pilots display their skills as the teams of screaming jets fly low overhead.

Basic sentence – simple, compound, complex

You have a lot of work to do. Your sentences are not strong yet.

The quality of the sentences must be higher.

3. Adults watch.

They are in awe.

They are cringing.

Some children are crying.

Some children cover their·ears.

They want to see more.

Adults watch.

They are in awe.

They are cringing.

Some children are crying.

Some children cover their·ears.

They want to see more.

Adults watch.

in awe.

cringing.

Some children are crying

cover their·ears

want to see more

MY SOLUTION:

Cringing adults watch in awe, and some children are crying and covering their ears; nevertheless, they all want to see more.

4. Skydivers float to earth.

They are 1000 metres up.

They float gently.

They float down.

They guide their falls.

They land on a cross.

The cross is white.

Try #4 in Chat.

1. Skydivers floats to earth gently and down from 1000 meters up; however, they falls on a white cross.

Skydivers float down to earth gently from 1000 meters up; then they fall on a white cross.

2. The skydivers who float down gently 1000 meters up guide their falls, and land on a white cross.

The skydivers who float down gently from 1000 meters up guide their falls, and they land on a white cross.

3. A thousand meters up skydiver float to earth gently and down to the land whitecross while guiding their falls. translation RW

4. Skydivers float to earth about 1000 meters up gently down their falls to land on a white cross.

Skydivers float gently down to earth from about 1000 meters up and guide their falls to land on a white cross.

5. The 1000 metres up skydivers float gently down to earth, as they guide their falls and land on a white cross. translation

The skydivers who are 1000 metres up…

6. The skydivers gently float 1000 meters up and down to guide their falls, which is the white cross in the earth.

The skydivers gently float 1000 meters down to guide their falls, which is the white cross in the earth.

7. Skydivers float thousand meters down to earth gently; they guide their falls which is the white cross in the earth.

8. Skydivers float gently down to the earth are 1000 metres up, and guide their falls land on a white cross. RW

My opinion: This kind of work is the most valuable for your practice time. Most bang for the buck.

Sentence combining gives the best return on improving your sentence writing.

If this is too hard, don’t combine them all. Combine just a few of them.

1. Skydivers float to earth.

They are 1000 metres up.

They float gently.

They float down.

They guide their falls.

They land on a cross.

The cross is white.

Skydivers float to earth.

They float gently.

They float down.

They land on a cross.

The cross is white.

Skydivers float to earth.

gently.

down.

land on a cross.

white

Skydivers float gently down to earth and land on a white cross.

70% of the original – good start if you are finding these tough

5. Biplanes engage in fights.

The planes are imitations of early aircraft.

The fights are typical of WW1.

Biplanes engage in fights.

imitations of early aircraft

typical of WW1

COMPACT, DENSE SOLUTION:

Biplanes which are imitations of early aircraft engage in fights which were typical of WW1.

For homework, I’ll email you a few more exercises.

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We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda

1. The Jade Peony Chapter 3

2. Using quotations

3. HW Read JP Chapter 4 for Wednesday, make notes on the Thought Questions

Part 2 “Jung-Sum, second brother”

4. Tomorrow: Continue with “Literary Terms”

Test #2- Paragraph on JP Ch1-3

JP Ch3 – final chapter of Jook Liang’s story, narrator

resolution, denounement

plot – events of the story in sequence

plotline – 

1. exposition – expose – to show

2. rising action – conflict, story heats up, competing interests

3. climax – on the edge of your seat, maximum tension, maximum emotion

4. falling action – story starts to relax, slide toward the resolution

5. resolution/denouement – end of the story, wrap up

MY LECTURE NOTES

• JP Ch3 – denouement of Part 1

• “The white taffeta dress… faded raspberry stain near the collar.” p43

doesn’t look like Shirley Temple

everything is second-hand, third-hand, tattered, worn

no money for luxuries and “stupid foolish”

dream vs reality

“Beauty and the Beast” p44

CBC.ca “You Can’t Ask That”

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signs of something wrong

“Where is Wong Suk?” “Paper day for Wong Suk” p47

“Walk young for young job; walk old for old job.” p48

“more life years… added to your paper years, the more Honourable one became” p48

“I had witnessed Poh-Poh giving different numbers to different people.” p48

“paper-years… always different from Chinese years” p49

“I stupidly thought, There’s nothing left to tell.” p49

Jook Liang does not know what is going on- she is being kept in the dark

“Tell her.” Wong Suk repeatedly p50

“negotiate with the… the Tong”

“Big Careless Mouth… Too many English words” p51

“whispering… all jostling for survival… each as desperate as Chinese voices” –universal immigrant experience ***

-kids have big mouths sometimes

-the family is very wary of government officials/government

FLASHBACK

“Johnson bess-see Boss Man” p53 “bess-see” best, heavy accent

saved his life in rail camp

Wong Suk only wanted gold

“note… wrapped around a heavy American gold coin” p56

“Head Tax” p57

“Bess-ee” best (Wang Bak’s accent) 

hairy red demon – Johnson was Caucasian (white) – big beard and lots of body hair, redhead, lumberjack

demon – translation from Cantonese – “lo fan” “gwei lo” white demon, white devil, white ghost

why ghost/demon? – rude? not really

My wife is Chinese. She teasingly calls me “No fun lo fan.” because I like to stay home and read a book.

Chinese are very teasing to the people they love – term of endearment “crazy face” “stupid pig”

other cultures – “monkey” – shows love

Wang Bak sensitive man, talks about a girl he liked in “Old China” when he was young

he was very poor, no $ for expensive gift to show his love - “I gave her plum blossoms… Throw back at me all the blossoms” p58 - spit

50+ years ago, still remembers the pain of that

* Do you remember the first time you got your heart broken?

“Lucky Money” why? p60 wedding? journey?

“that was a sign, too, and I did not pay enough attention” p60

What is happening with Wong Suk? rising suspense

“Wong Suk told of being friends with some Siwash natives” p60

mah-jong “Gossip was a way everyone warned everyone else about what was known” p61

“Who did not have a tale to tell?” p63

“hint of mystery… Paper, paper, paper… Tell her… Father could not” pp63-4

-“monkey man and defiant girl, once showed their whip scars to each other” p65

parallel of Wang Bak and Jook Liang now & Wang Bak and Poh-poh 60+ years ago

Wang Bak is a throughline between Poh-poh and Jook Liang

Poh-poh might be a bit jealous?

“when I cried, I cried on my own” p65

“the bones shipment” p66

“I waited for our Chinglish conversation” p66

“I wished everyone would go away and stay away” p68

“I felt the deep warmth of his cloak and moved away” p69

“Farewell, my bandit princess” p71

“I forgot to..urge him Turn around.  Come back.  Come back” pp71-2

Father is very thoughtful toward his daughter’s feelings: “No, not yet, not until Liang wants to leave” p72

“I did not, then, in the days of our royal friendship… never to forget you.” p72

Wang Bak has to go, Canada is not his home

“I never to forget you” “never to forget you” repeated phrase (43,72, other pages-look out for them)

repeated- means important – novel about memory, secrets, what is hidden, what is revealed, funny/sad, melancholic

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2. “Using Quotations”

3. HW Confessions podcast. 

“I Confess” – a person making a public confession about something they did in the past that they were unwilling to reveal

Many people have storied that they are keeping secret.

podcast: Simon Mayo’s Confessions podcast – radio BCC (British Broadcasting Corporation) – listeners would write in and confess something that they has done in the past – funny stories

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Choose one of the episodes. You listen on the webpage or you can download it.

Choose one of the stories in one of the episodes.

Each episode will have 5 or 6 stories.

Choose one of the stories (4-5m). 

Listen to it several times to understand what happened to the person in the story. You may have to listen a few times, depending on your listening skills.

We will write about it on Monday.

This will be a good listening challenge.

Review of sentences-

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

-adverb clauses

-noun clauses

-adjective clauses

The basics that we have to know. Being able to write these sentences and clauses will be a great value to you in your life in Canada.

-read a lot, studied how good writers expressed their ideas

-listened to good speakers who could express their thoughts clearly and beautifully, copy them, speech patterns, vocabulary, expressions

heroes – Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, John McWhorter, 

Being able to speak and write clearly absolutely changed my life.

I did a tremendous amount of work to build those skills.

Being able to write and speak well is a gift to your life.

We are learning these basic but fundamental skills. They are the foundations of all good writing. We can never get away from simple, compound, and complex.

Sentence combining: the best way to practice sentence writing, practical, useful

Goal: to put all of the short sentences together into one big sentence

1. Students have gathered. KERNEL centre of our sentence

Look for new information in the other sentences:

Coaches have gathered. ‘coaches’ is new  ‘have gathered’ is not new

Parents have gathered.

They have gathered for the provincial final.

The final is in senior girls’ basketball.

Students have gathered.

coaches 

parents 

for the provincial final

is in senior girls’ basketball

Students, coaches, and parents have gathered for the provincial final which is in senior girls’ basketball. COMPLEX

Students, coaches, and parents have gathered for the provincial final in senior girls’ basketball. SIMPLE

These are top-quality sentences that would be good for any university or professional writing.

With practice, the sentence combining will become faster and more efficient. For now, we are going slowly and carefully.

2. The players enter the floor area. KERNEL

They enter from the dressing rooms.

They begin to warm up.

They receive a standing ovation.

The ovation is from their supporters.

The players enter the floor area

from the dressing rooms

begin to warm up

receive a standing ovation.

is from their supporters

1. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and begin to warm up; they receive a standing ovation from their

supporters. COMPOUND

2. When the players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and begin to warm up, they receive a standing ovation

from their supporters. COMPLEX 

3. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, and as they begin to warm up, they receive a standing ovation from their supporters. COMPOUND COMPLEX

4. The players receive a standing ovation from their supporters after they enter the floor area from the dressing rooms and

begin to warm up. COMPLEX

5. The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, and they begin to warm up; meanwhile, they receive a standing ovation from their supporters. COMPOUND COMPLEX

6. SIMPLE? The players enter the floor area from the dressing rooms, begin to warm up, and receive a standing ovation from their supporters.

Lots of choice! You can keep it basic or get fancy, depending on your wishes and your skill level in writing.

I will email an exercise to you. Try a few for homework. We can share some on Monday.

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Monday- paragraph to pass in Test #2 Chapter 1-3 JP

HW Go home and tell your family members that you love them. See what happens.

The Jade Peony Ch 2

MY LECTURE NOTES (cont.)

decorative knots – learned by Poh-poh while child servant

“Teach me, my heart said” p31

PohPoh abused as child, nearly slaps Jook Liang

“ No, no, no… No more teach!” p31

Poh-Poh has a lot of unresolved trauma

“Mo yung girl” p33

mo – not

yung – useful, good

mo yung – useless

Jook Liang “I’m not mo yung, PohPoh… even though I am a girl!”

JL defends herself, stands up for herself

Wong Bak “bandit-prince in disguise” p35

READ PARAGRAPH “I was happy...” p36

PohPoh’s childhood “Too ugly” p38

JL talking about PP “She was always saying something discouraging.” p39

stigma – a negative cultural shame

“When would her mo yung granddaughter learn not to tempt the gods.” P40

PP “We know world.  No one spoil us.” p40

Jook Liang thought “I’m not ugly… I’m not useless.” p41, confident, strong

“I looked… seeking Shirley Temple… Something cold clutched at my stomach…” p41

Read all p41

Poh-Poh is always so negative, opposite, very complicated woman

“How are you?” “Die soon.”

Good advice to have a happier life: positive affirmations, showing gratitude, writing down good things in our lives , omitting negative people in your life, not complaining, being grateful

Poh-Poh would never be able to do these things. She likes to remember the sadness of the past and stew in the bad emotions. -not been loved as a child, hard to express love easily

Jook Liang and Wang Suk both needed that friendship, both needed the mutual caring and support of each other

-like a family relationship, grandfather and granddaughter

song by Paul Simon “Something So Right”

Some people never say the words

I love you

It's not their style

To be so bold

Some people never say those words

I love you

But like a child they're longing

To be told

can tell the dog but their child

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We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda

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2. The Jade Peony Chapter 2

3. Continue with “Literary Terms”

4. HW Read JP Chapter 3 (28p) for Monday

If you go to college or university, you will be expected to read hundreds of pages a week.

The reading load can be overwhelming.

FREE ADVICE #10: Create a reading schedule- # of pages per day.

new book – X # of pages, Y # of days- schedule

e.g. 300 pages, want to finish it 12 days 300/12= 25 pages a day

Set aside time every day to get that 25 pages read, defend that time, no phone, no Youtube, No Snapchat

Do the reading, make notes in that time

Don’t wait until you have freetime. You have to defend time for your schoolwork.

e.g The Jade Peony Chapter 2, 28 pages – 7 pages per day for the next three days?

-14 pages per day for the next two days?

Quiz #2 – short paragraph (50-80w)

Email to me by 9:45am

Why was father worried about Wong Bak’s visit?

The work has to be in on time. If you can’t get it in on time, talk to me before.

A few people hadn’t read the chapter.

- any bookstore

- free online, links on blog

- borrow it from me

Topic sentence – addresses the topic directly

For a short answer answer like this, get right to the point.

no room for introductory comments: grabber, hook

- detailed, specific supporting sentences

e.g 1. Poh-poh’s close friend, not “lose face”

2. Wang Bak respected, elder, high esteem , Chinese culture

3. twisted face and body- children might stare, be afraid

1.

- Avoid plot summary. Don’t retell the story.

- Avoid first person “I”- You are not in the novel.

** Make sure each sentence is a real sentence: simple, compound, complex

Common sentence errors:

1. sentence fragments

2. run-on sentences

3. verb usage – verb form, verb tense!!

My internet at school is unstable today. The connection might be wonky.

Questions? Grammar? Sentences? Put in Chat:

1. What does it mean by RW AwK?

RW – rewrite  This sentence that you wrote isn’t working well. Your idea is not coming across clearly. Try to express the idea in a different way.

awk – awkward, doesn’t really sound like natural English, sounds like a translation from your first language

**I am not trying to sound judgmental of your English skills. I just want to show you where you can improve.

2. Should we always use the past tense to answer the question?

Past tense is a good tense to use for answering questions about a novel- normally novels are written in past tense.

For my class, use past tense. For other classes, other teachers may want present tense.

3. “He was anixous that his family's members might show direspect by their behavior.”

“He was anxious that his family's members might show disrespect by their behavior.” noun clause

behaviors – XXX usually uncountable, behavior 

disrespect (n) (v)  disrespectful (a)

The teenager showed disrespect to his mother. noun

The teenager disrespected his mother. verb

The teenager was disrespectful to his mother.

SLANG – ‘dis’ disrespect (V) “That guy dissed me on Chatsnap.

Your example: The dude disrespectfully talked to the lady.

The dude talked disrespectfully to the lady. MORE NATURAL

verb + adverb

The little kid talked quietly. MORE NATURAL

The little kid quietly talked.

My JP Ch2 Lecture Notes

I read the chapter and highlight quotations that I think are important. If I was a student in English 11, I would use these as my study notes.

• -chapter 2 is about relationship between Poh-Poh and Jook Liang

complicated

“Sekky”, sickly baby brother, Sek Lung, afraid of TB- tuberculosis- disease of the lungs

Sek Lung – sick lung, a little inside joke by Wayson Choy

Poh-Poh dotes on Sekky, focussed on him – sick, a boy- cultural preference for boys

- lots of cultures values boys much higher than girls

Poh-poh has very sexist ideas, old-fashioned ideas, her culture

Poh-Poh grew up in a very tough childhood, passing some of that trauma to her granddaughter

“A girl-child is mo yung - useless” p28

tension between Poh-Poh and granddaughter

Wong Suk’s, Wang Bak “bandit princess” p30

understands her, fast friends

Poh-Poh very critical of Jook Liang

“lack of humility” “How can one China girl be Shir-lee Tem-po-lah?” p30

Jook Liang wants to be Shirley Temple, learn to dance, dress like her, models herself after her

“You China!”

Jook Liang is caught in the middle of two cultures

“Teach me, my heart said” p31

PohPoh abused as child, nearly slaps Jook Liang

“ No, no, no… No more teach!” p31

Poh-Poh has a lot of unresolved trauma

“Mo yung girl” p33

Wong Bak “bandit-prince in disguise” p35

PohPoh’s childhood “Too ugly” p38

“She was always saying something discouraging.” p39

stigma – a negative cultural shame

“When would her mo yung granddaughter learn not to tempt the gods.” P40

“We know world.  No one spoil us.” p40

READ PARAGRAPH “I was happy...” p36

Jook Liang thought “I’m not ugly… I’m not useless.” p41, confident, strong

“I looked… seeking Shirley Temple… Something cold clutched at my stomach…” p41

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sky/skies – The sky is cloudy. The skies are cloudy.

 

 

 

Adjective clauses:

 

that

who

which

 

Write some of your examples in the chat to share:

1.   Hebi is a person who I met last month.

2.   Who is that guy in the park sitting on the bench ? SIMPLE – not adj cl

3.   The people who live next door are good neigbours.       

4.   The man who owns the dog wears red boots.

5.   I don't know who is coming to the meeting today. noun clause

6.   I had saved my documents that I need to hand in before the computer crashed.

7.   The girl who wears a ponytail is talking to me. who wears her hair in a ponytail

8.   I lost my 24k gold necklace which I like the most.

9.   I wanted to know which school it was you went to. noun clause adj cl

10.                     Sarah is my good friend who lives in Philippines.

11.                     The cake that she bought was delicious.

12.                     The jacket that I bought last year is very warm.

13.                     The person who wrote the book is my mother.

14.                     Students who study before the test will get good grades.

15.                     She is beautiful same as me. Not adj cl

16.                     I miss my friend who always supports me in everything that I do. 2 adj cl

17.                     She grew up in the small country which is Burundi.

18.                     The story that I read happened in China.

19.                     Katelyn is the first student who won the first prize for football game. playing football

20.                     I like the guy with the red shirt. SIMPLE

I like the guy who is wearing the red shirt.

21.                     Stanley Park, which is the most beautiful place to visit when you come to Canada.  fragment

Stanley Park, which is the most beautiful place to visit when you come to Canada is in Vancouver.

Stanley Park is the most beautiful place to visit when you come to Canada. adv cl

22.                     I was playing games with Emily who just movesd to Vancouver. vt

 

 

 

‘whom’ – object pronoun

The person with whom I was speaking is my teacher. very formal, unusually formal, nobody talks like that

The person with whom who I was speaking with  is my teacher. very natural sounding, polite, but not excessively formal

‘whom’ is not a high-frequency word, you don’t need it

 

To whom did you give your dogs? too formal

Who did you give your dogs to? much more natural

 

exception:

To whom it may concern,

 

The weather is giving everyone the blues- feel low-energy.

 

‘liquid sunshine’ - rain

 

 

“I Confess”

 

1.    What is the status of a teacher in your culture?

 

2.    How much power does a teacher have over a student in your culture?

 

3.    What are five words that describe a good teacher?

- fair, friendly, patient, responsible, thoughtful, flexible, kind, organized, interesting, empathetic, strict?, knowledgeable

 

4.    What are five words to describe a bad teacher?

- strict, uncaring, bad-tempered, unfair, inflexible, inconsistent, distant, aloof, arrogant, nasty, aggressive, mean

 

5.    Do you think the students will respect Mr. Wei after his confession?  Why or why not?

 

Do you admit when you are wrong?

 

Quiz #1 Short answer (50-80w)

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Do you think the students will respect Mr. Wei after his confession?  Why or why not?

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• MY LECTURE

divided into three Parts- three narrators: 

Part One: Jook Liang, Only sister

Part Two: Jung Sum, Second Brother

Part Three: Sek-Lung, Third Brother

Establish setting, major characters, milieu – overall feeling in the text, emotional centre of the novel – drama, comedy, complex- lots of elements

complex – just like your life

Verisimilitude of Vancouver, city history

verisimilitude – setting, details of the setting, little details that make the story seem real

Introduce morays of Chinese culture – Cantonese speakers

Chinese population in Vancouver has changed in the past 20 years

20 years – no/very few Mandarin speakers, all Cantonese

China – hundreds of dialects and languages- main language -Mandarin, official language

South China – Canton Guangdong - Cantonese

I hope you read some background on this – the links I sent you

Chapter 1 Talking Notes

“Poh-Poh” – Cantonese for “grandmother” 

English – Grandma, Grandmother, Nanny,

Spanish – Abuela

Persian - Mamajoon

Philippines - Lola

Russian - Babushka

Mandarin: Lao Lao or Wai Poh

‘Poh-Poh’ has power, matriarch, eldest, decision-maker

matri – mother

cultural – veneration of the elderly, respect for the elderly

matriarch – the highest status woman in a family, the boss

matrimony – marriage (n) the father “gives her away” to the groom

dowry – money that is given along with the woman

“took pleasure in her status” “arbitrator of the old ways” (6)

her position in the family

paradox – internal contradiction -

patra – father

DISCUSSION QUESTION: “Do you keep your traditions from your home country alive in Canada?”

“false immigration stories to hide, secrets to be kept” p6

- lots of hidden things in this novel, concealing and revealing

Jook Liang – unreliable narrator, just a kid, lots that does not understand, including dialects

Poh-Poh “Too much bad memory” p7

“Old One” Poh-Poh – respect, aged, elderly, high status

“Go to Gold Mountain” p9 Gum San

Gold Rush – California, BC, Alaska

“law against begging for food… no law… against starving to death” p10

“pea pod China men” p11

Wong Bak “an elder…so every respect must be paid to him” p11

-childhood friend of Poh-Poh

“Grandmother must not lose face” p11

-Wong Bok has been injured/twisted severely through hard work

Wong Sin-saang’s face

“Is it a demon or spirit?” p15

funny- Popo waiting, forgotten in kitchen

“the Monkey King” p18, magical, powerful

Monkey King – very well-known children’s story from China

Journey to the West

“Monkey talk” p20

Monkey King as Cheetah, cultural elusion

tried to pull his face off “A for-real Monkey Man” p24

Jook Liang bonded with Wong Suk

“This child not afraid of me.” p25

- he is used to people being afraid of him because of his twisted face and body

Tomorrow- Continue with “Literary Terms”

 

I know it is challenging to read a chapter a day, but this is a reasonable expectation for English 11.

 

Quiz #2 – short paragraph (50-80w)

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Why was father worried about Wong Bak’s visit?

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2. “Literary Terms”

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Personal response:

1. What is the status of a teacher in your culture?

2. How much power does a teacher have over a student in your culture?

3. What are five words that describe a good teacher?

4. What are five words to describe a bad teacher?

Focused on the story:

5. Do you think the students will respect Mr. Wei afterward his confession?  Why or why not?

questions about stories, novel, text – thought questions- help you stay on track, help with comprehension

Good practice for students - make notes about what you are reading, keep the notes

  - memory aid, notes jog memory

questions – makes notes, key words, not sentences

expectation – you will read the texts

- easy to fake it – read summary online of a story, novel

- anyone can fake it

challenge yourself – do the reading, do the work, sometimes hard work

-*** hold yourself to a high standard

- your work, tests, marks will be better

- you’ll be proud of your effort and results, head held high

- You know in your heart if you’ve done your best. If you are a thoughtful feeling person, that will have value to you.

- most people want to do well, feel proud of their work

ADVICE: Reading a story.

Read the story twice.

1. first time – comfortable chair, cup of tea, read story – basic elements – setting, characters, conflicts, plot. Surface level reading

2. second time – desk, pencil and paper- make notes -deeper reading- symbols, metaphors, language (words and terms), theme

a good story will reveal new things with each reading

depth in a good story – a good student/reader will swim and dive into those depths to 

learn new things

- a poor student will look at the story briefly, understand the 

surface of the story and not go deeper

vocabulary – new vocab - - read OR look up words in a dictionary, can’t do both

Don’t look up words while you are reading a story. That ruins the reading experience.

You should be able to understand the story well even if you don’t know every word.

If there are a lot of words that you don’t know, and you cannot understand the story because of your limited vocabulary, that means your English isn’t good enough yet.

for me- find a word I don’t know – make a note and look it up afterward

If you want to be a good musician- Listen carefully to great musicians!! Practice!!

If you want to be a writer- Read great writers!! Study their styles. Eventually you will find your own style. 

- genre - autobiography of immigrant women in Canada/US

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Sentence types:

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

- adverb clauses

- noun clauses

- adjective clauses –

Adjective- describe a noun

colour – emerald green, sky blue, baby blue, fire engine red

size – huge, tiny, humungous, three-pound

shape – round, square, ovoid, six-sided

age – young, elderly, ancient, ten-years-old 

adjective clause – SV

that – things, animals

Dora’s sister has eyes that are dark brown like chocolate. describes ‘eyes’

I have a dog that likes to sleep on my son’s bed. describes ‘dog’

I like the headphones that wrap around your head.

who- people

Maria’ s sister is the girl who saved the people when their house caught on fire. adj cl adv cl

Jun was talking to Hiroko who lives in Tokyo now.

which – special things, unique things

- special things

The water bottle that I bought at Costco is pretty good.

The ring which my grandfather left for me is very special to me.

You decide if it is special.

I put the picture that/which my three-year-old son drew on the fridge.

- unique things – only one

The Great Wall of China, which is over 21 000 km long, is a wonder of the world.

British Columbia, which is the westernmost province in Canada, is a beautiful place.

Tomorrow – ‘whom’- not used often, not important

who, that, which

Try some examples of your own to share for tomorrow.

sky/skies

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4. HW Read The Jade Peony Chapter 1. Make notes on the Chapter 1 Thought Questions.

Sentences types:

SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

- adverb clause

- noun clause

- adjective clause

adjective clauses- 

that- things

Maria had a cake that was made with dark chocolate.

who – people, person

The little girl who lives next door loves to play with our puppy.

which- special things, unique things

The Great Wall of China, which is over 21 000 km long, is a wonder of the world.

The Great Wall of China – only one, unique

whom – rarely used, vewry formal, not commonly used

ADVICE # 9: Forget it! Nobody uses it.

whom – people, object

My neighbor who is from Hong Kong is retired. ‘who’ is a subject pronoun

My neighbor who we rarely see outside is retired. ‘who’ is an object pronoun

when you have an object pronoun, you have choice: 1. who 2. OMIT 3. whom

1. The girl who I was talking to is my sister.

2. The girl I was talking to is my sister.

3. The girl whom I was talking to is my sister. too formal, nobody talks like that

One exception- we have to use ‘whom’

To whom it may concern,

The key words for adjectice clauses are ‘that’, ‘who’, and ‘which’.

‘Whom’ is very low-frequency, don’t bother with it, it’s not important

okie dokie – OK, casual

The Simpsons – Ned Flanders “Okily Dokily, Neighborinos!”

Do you have some examples to share?

1. The door which Pepe and I fixed was tore torn down for a second time.

2. Vancouver, which is a famous city, is too expensive.

3. My friend, John, was born and raised in Toronto which is the biggest and most famous city in Canada.

My friend, John, is a bank robber.

Sarah, my sister’s best friend, just got a puppy.

Vancouver, my home town, is a beautiful city.

appositive AAA, BBB, is CCC.

4. I have a friend who has always argued with her husband.

5. The roommate who is next door likes to make a lot of weird noises.

6. mMy daughter who is 14 years old studies at Lord Byng school.

7. He visit his friend in Mcdonold wich is in 49th avenue.

He visits his friend at the McDonalds’ which is on 49th Avenue.

8. My brother who is a basketball player is very friendly.

9. The man who stole the bike has been caught by the police.

10. My mother has given me a tray which belonged to my grandmother.

11. The school that my son is attending is going to close.

The school is going to close. active voice

The school is going to be closed. passive voice

12. My fired friend who is a basketball champion. frag

My friend is a basketball champion. SIMPLE

My friend who is a basketball champion is 6’7”. COMPLEX – adjective clause

I am 5’9”. You are 6’1”. She is 5’2”. My mother-in-law is 4’9”.

13. Sushi, which a lot of people love the most a lot, is not healthy. It is full of sodium.

14. I enrolled in a gym which was so very close to my place.

The gym is so close to my house that I can walk there in 5 minutes. adverb clause

very close – next to, right beside, adjacent to, kitty corner to

kitty corner – across the street diagonally

15. Mr. Lee is the teacher who helped me with my physics problem.

16. That cup which was won at a amusement is my best love.

That cup which I won at an amusement park is my favourite thing that I own.

17. That is the guy who I bumped into at Superstore.

bump into- encounter

ran into – hit with your car, meet unexpectedly

I tripped over the stupid cat and fell down the stairs headfirst onto the concrete floor. Luckily, I was wearing my motorcycle helmet.

18. The car my son crashed is my husband’s favourite one.

19. The Louvre is a museum that/where you can visit the work of art of see/enjoy/take in works of art from many countries.

PHRASAL VERB take in – to see a movie, play, concert, museum

We took in a movie yesterday.

Literary Terms:

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1. Review paragraph on “What Happened During the Ice Storm”

2. Share your examples of noun clauses

3. HW Review “Literary Terms”. I emailed this to you yesterday.

Read the short story “I Confess” for Wednesday

Tomorrow – adjective clauses

Why did the boys save the pheasants?

In the short story “What Happened During the Ice Storm” by Jim Heynen, the boys saved the pheasants because of human nature  their natural humanity/ they were empathic to the suffering of the birds. First of all, the kind-hearted human nature is the main reason for children to save the pheasants. The freezing rain kept coming so that farmers can could hunt the pheasants, which can could only be hurdled  in the roadside ditches. The farm boys had learned from their adults to get the pheasants and obviously had an intention to kill those pheasants. When the boys found the pheasants, who were “blindfolded with ice and didn’t flush.”  they had no idea how to deal with this situation; in addition, the pheasants “looked like unborn birds glazed in egg white.” How could you kill those babies? Therefore, the boys changed their minds and took off their warm, dry coats to cover those innocent freezing pheasants.

1. Topic sentence – clear- expressing our ideas with specific, accurate vocabulary

- on-topic – addresses the question directly

- balance between recognizable and formulaic, same pattern

- no first person, “I”

The rain was freezing and everything was covered in ice. OFF-TOPIC, plot summary

The boys saved the pheasants because of several reasons. basic Topic Sentence

Why did you move to Canada?

I moved to Cnada for several reason.

Why did Mr Wei confess to the class?

Mr Wei confessed to the class for several reason.

TS can become formulaic, same thing over and over. Students learn something that works, and they stick to it and don’t anything up.

I just read a story. I really liked it. I will not talk about why the boys decided not to kill the pheasants.

I no first person narrative, you’re not in the story, the question is not about you, it’s about the story

What is the scariest or funniest thing that ever happened to you? – “I’ first person, appropriate, personal story

When you are writing about fiction, avoid first person “I”. You are not in the story. Were you one of the boys? Were you one of the pheasants?

“In my opinion, tThe boys save the pheasants because the pheasants look pitiful in that tough weather.” 

MY ADVICE #8: Leave it out. Everybody knows it is your opinion. Your name is on the test.

2. Supporting sentences - supporting the TS

- not plot summary

- verb tense – students switch between past and present – very confusing

- mostly good ideas – CHALLENGE: trouble expressing your ideas clearly 

BIG SECRET #2- Writing is hard for everyone.

BIG SECRET #1 – FANBOYS is bad advice, SOBA is good advice

3. Concluding sentence- if appropriate

We will do another paragraph in a few days.

Noun clauses: 

Please write a few examples of your sentences that include noun clauses from homework in the Chat to share:

1. Can you believe what he said?

2. Kevin wants to know how many languages you can speak. 

3. Benson asked me where his car keys was were.

4. I believe that everything happens for a reason.

5. I understand everything that happened to you. adj cl

6. I know that you are my good best friend. awk good friend OR best friend

7. The story showed how people changed their thoughts and behaviors in a challenging situation.

8. I remember how hard working you were in the office.

9. I don't remember that how much it cost.

10. I saw how the accident happened.

11. cCould you tell me who your teacher was last year? cap punc

12. I know that the students studied their assignment.

13. Tom knows knew that he gets would get in trouble if he could not come back home on time. vt

14. She thinks that her mother will come home late.

15. I will play basketball whenever I have free time. adv cl – describes when you will play

16. She wants to know who is coming to the meeting.  

17. hHome is where I want to be now.

Writing a sentence with no capital letter is like walking around with two different styles of shoes on.

18. Mary is not responsible for what Billy did.

19. I understood that our instructor explained paragraph writing.

20. w Whoever cleaned the house deserves a thank you.

21. My friend told me that she will sleep all day and night because she broke up with her boyfriend. noun clause adverb clause

Your friend will tell you, “There are plenty of fish in the sea.”

IDIOM: “plenty of fish in the sea”

- there are a lot of boys

- many choices of boys

7 billion people in the world – lots to choose from

“soul mate” – the one person in the world who is perfect for you.

BAD ADVICE!!! There are tens of thousands of people who are right for you.

22. I wonder whether you like tennis.

23. He said that people need keeping continue to need their jobs during the pandemic. vf

24. My classmates wants to learn how to get English better better English.

FREE ADVICE #9: No one can make you happy. Only you can make yourself happy. If you can’t do it, no one else can. You have to learn to help yourself. The more you can help yourself, the better you will be as a partner.

The skies are much clearer today. The rain cleared up the smoke.