Good morning, everyone.
We will get started at 8:30.
Today’s agenda
1. Review Quiz#7
2. “Roses Sing on New Snow”
3. Test#5 tomorrow – paragraph
This week Quiz#7, Test#5
Next week Test#6, Test#7 (probably)
Quiz#7
Cameras on.
Combine each in two different ways. Use a variety of sentence styles.
Email to me by 9:45.
1. Pete landed a job. KERNEL
Find new information:
His friends landed a job.
The job was painting a house.
The house belonged to Mr. Langois.
The job was for one month.
Pete landed a job
his friends
was painting a house
belonged to Mr. Langois
for one month
Pete and his friends landed a job for one month that was painting a house that belonged to Mr. Langois. complex – adj cl
Pete landed a job with his friends painting a house for one month; the house belonged to Mr. Langois. compound semicolon
2. The house was large.
It would take days to clean.
It would take days to scrape.
It would take days to paint.
3. Pete hoped for something. ‘something’ placeholder word, refers to a noun: ‘job’ or ‘business’
This job would lead to others.
This job would lead to a business.
The business would be painting houses.
He would do this every summer.
Share some of yours that want to discuss:
a) It would take days to clean, scrape and paint, because the house was large. pron punc
The house would take days to clean, scrape and paint because it was large.
b) Pete hoped for something that the business would be painting houses as soon as he would do this every summer; also, this job would lead to other businesses. not English
Pete hoped that this job would lead to other business painting houses that he would do every summer. Authentic English
I think that many people in the class have not digested the grammar that we studied. They are still thinking about English as a grammar system, not as a real living language.
c) The house was large; therefore, it would take days after to clean, to scrape, and then to paint.
parallelism – They have to clean, to scrape, and to paint.
- They have to clean, scrape, and paint.
‘have to’ modal auxilairy, type of verb
MODALS – can, could, may, might, should, would
d) Pete hoped that this job would lead to others; then, to the painting houses business that he would do every summer.
SV
Pete hoped that this job would lead to others; then, he could have a painting houses business that he would do every summer.
painting houses business – translation from Chinese, not English
business painting houses – English
AUTHENTIC ENGLISH:
Pete hoped that this job would lead to others; then, he could have a business painting houses that he would do every summer.
You need to become familiar with authentic English. Studying grammar is a very small part of knowing a language.
e) Pete hoped for business that would lead to other, like painting houses every summer.
Pete hoped for other business painting houses every summer.
f) Because the house was large, it would take days to clean, to scrape and then to paint.
“Roses Sing on New Snow”
Discussion Questions
1. What is the setting of the story?
-Time- past, Chinese Emperor – over 100 years ago
about 100 years ago
-Place- Chinatown- Canada? “New World” North America
infer – good guess Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco
Paul Yee – Vancouver
setting- Vancouver Chinatown about 100 years ago
-Culture - History of Chinese in Vancouver? History of Chinese immigrants
- railroad workers
2. Characters
dynamic? Which characters change in this story?
antagonist changes – ML taught him a lesson
3. Why does Maylin cook in her father’s restaurant?
We discussed two reasons.
4. Is Maylin a weak or strong person?
HOMEWORK
5. What are some possible reasons Maylin named her dish “Roses Sing on New Snow”? Why did she choose those words?
6. What does Maylin mean when she says her dish is a product of the new world?
7. What are some reasons the governor couldn’t cook “Roses Sing on New Snow” the same as Maylin did?
FREE ADVICE:
Reading a story-
1. Turn off distractions- phone, computer.
Give your full mind to the task of reading.
multitasking – a lie. We cannot multitask effectively for anything but the simplest tasks.
You owe it yourself to give your mental work your full mind, not half your attention.
2. Read the story at least twice.
Once in an armchair. -basic tenets of the story- setting, character, conflict, plot
Second time at a desk. -deeper ideas- symbols, repeated vocabulary, theme, deeper meaning
Trust the writer. There is a lot going on in the story for you to think about and discover.
3. Second reading - Make notes on what you are reading. Jot down ideas as they occur to you. Underline important words and phrases.
You will be prepared for class.
Not being prepared is not a happy feeling.
No comments:
Post a Comment