Good morning, everyone.
This is English Foundations 6 and Writing567 at 8:30.
Are you in the right place.
We will get started at 8:30.
Please keep you mic muted when you are not talking.
Teacher: Al Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
First name is fine- Al
I will call you by your first name if you don’t mind.
Today’s agenda:
agenda – the things we will do
1. Zoom class
2. Class procedures
3. Overview of course
4. Quizzes and tests
5. Email protocols
6. Homework activity
1. Zoom classes-
Covid-
All of the classes will be on Zoom.
Classes have been online since last April.
You can join the class early.
We will start at 8:30 sharp.
I will be getting emails from students for the day or so who are trying to figure out Zoom.
2. Class procedures
I will teach about one hour every day- 8:30 to about 9:30.
Then I will give you some homework.
Everything I put on this screen will be posted to my blog afterward.
I will update my blog every day.
Blog – web + log
log- written record
Blog- online record of somebody’s writing
My class blog is here: haleyshec.blogspot.com
You can check the blog as much as you like.
My blog is a tremendous resource that you can use.
Go to the blog now. Make sure you can open it.
Let me know if you are having trouble opening my blog.
You are welcome to talk much as you like. When you are not talking, keep your mic muted. This cuts down on noise.
3. Overview of course
Course dates:
February 8 – April 23 (final day)
Holidays? – tell you tomorrow
When you are successful in this class:
English Foundations 6- English Foundations 7/Composition and Literary Studies 10
English 10 is now called Composition and Literary Studies 10
EF7/Composition and Literary Studies 10 – taught together, very similar courses
English Foundations 7 is for Graduated Adults. A Graduated Adult is a person who had finished high school anywhere in the world.
Composition and Literary Studies 10 is for people who have not finished high school anywhere in the world.
e.g. under 19, aged out of regular high school in Vancouver, left school young for many reasons: family trouble, health trouble, war in their country, got a job to support their family, not allowed to go or were not able to go to school when they young
In Vancouver Adult Education, everyone is welcome.
After EF7/CompLit10 – English 11 – English 12
English 12 is the highest level English class for high school.
Colleges and universities require English 12, for the most part.
e.g.
EF6 Feb-Apr
EF7/10 Apr-Jun
Eng11 Summer
Eng12 Sept
Plus, you will need other courses- Math?, Science?
All post-secondary programs will have their own entry requirements.
Choose your program and school. Go on to the school website and find the entry requirements.
We have academic advisors at South Hill Education Centre (SHEC) who can help you when it come time to figure post-secondary options.
Academic courses – English 12, Biology 12 -are good for a few years.
Composition and Writing 567 – supplemental course, extra writing instruction
** THE THINGS WE WILL BE STUDYING IN THIS CLASS
a. writing
- very important, most important for school, high school, college, university, job, life
Being able to write well is a wonderful gift that you can give to yourself. I can help. I will teach you.
THREE SENTENCE TYPES
-SIMPLE
-COMPOUND
-COMPLEX
I will teach you these in great detail.
PARAGRAPHS- different kinds of paragraphs
- descriptive writing
- narrative writing
- persuasive writing
- process/expository writing
ESSAY – several paragraphs together
b. reading
- short stories
- poems
- news articles
- non-fiction
- No novel for this class
c. listening and speaking
Every class will be one hour of me talking.
I will speak at a normal pace, slightly slower than if I were talking with my friends.
The online class feeling is different. I like to have people in a room, talking with each other, looking at each other.
-speaking- You talk as much as you want. Chime in. Join the conversation. Don’t be shy. Ask as many questions as you want.
“Sorry. I have a question. May I ask a question?” YES!! Don’t be shy.
I will be paying attention to who talks and who is silent.
Don’t be a Silent Sam or a Quiet Quon.
On Zoom, we are missing visual cues, subtle body language
We will do our best.
Usually we have a lot of fun in class.
4. Quizzes and tests
Marks for this course
- Quizzes: worth about 30%, around 7 or 8 quizzes
sentence work based on grammar we have been learning, six sentences
- Tests: worth about 60%, around 7 or 8 tests
paragraph writing about a story, article, topic of discussion
(150-200 words)
- Essay: worth about 10%, probably just one essay at the end of the course
longer writing , several paragraphs, (300-350+ words)
-Extras 5%
Pass mark in BC is 50%.
All quizzes, tests, essays
- timed, deadline will be posted
e.g. “Email me the test by 10:30am.”
I will not accept late work.
If you need a lot of flexibility with time, self-paced courses may be a better choice for you.
- test or quiz must be in an attachment
readable by Microsoft Word
Files like this: .doc .txt .rtf
Do you know what this means?
If you have Microsoft Word, use that.
If you don’t have MSWord, you can use WordPad on PC.
For Apple computers, I don’t know.
Googledocs can be made to work- save the file on your computer and attach it to your email to me.
Attach the file to your email.
In the Subject line of your email, you must put your name, class, time and quiz or test number.
For example: Joe Chen, EF6, 8:30, Test1
If you do not put this information in the Subject line of your email, I will not know who you are or what class you are in.
I will not be able to mark your work or record a mark for you.
Also, you should title your quiz or test with the same information. Then I have a record of your quiz or test if we ever have to go back to review it.
Name the file:
Name, Class, Time, Quiz or Test #
e.g. “SarahChenEF58:30Quiz1”
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