Good morning, everybody.
We will get started at 11:00.
Cameras on. Mics muted.
Today’s
agenda:
· Discuss Test#1
· Begin sentence combining
· Begin narrative writing.
Test#2 - Narrative writing paragraph on Wednesday
** REMINDER **
I will be away Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for
meetings about adult education.
Tomorrow, your teacher will be Barbara Rowland.
The zoom link will be the same.
Sad and distressing news over the weekend – mass grave
found at an old Residential School in Kamloops, BC.
213 children’s bodies in a mass grave – First Nations
kids
Residential Schools – government schools, run by the church
First Nations – taken from their families and forced
to go to these schools
100,000 kids who were forced to go- 1840s?- 1996. The
last Residential School closed in 1996.
- not academic school – taught to be workers, maids, physical
work
- not allowed to speak their own languages
- many were mistreated- starved, insufficient clothing,
beaten, psychological abuse, sexual abuse
- many children suffered greatly –
- lots of trauma – hurt, injury
intergenerational trauma- grandparents-parent-child-grandchild
213 children’s bodies found- mass grave
When I went to school, I didn’t learn about Residential
Schools. I learned about them when I was in my 20s.
It was big bad secret.
Now the secret is out and people have to talk about it
and come to terms with it.
It was against the law for a First Nations person to
hire a lawyer until 1951.
Some healing can take place.
disease – cause of sickness and death for First Nations
people
I‘ll be teaching about First Nations people in a few
weeks.
Test#1- paragraph (100-150 words)
60m to write it. That is the deadline.
60 minutes is 60 minutes. It isn’t 65 minutes or 70
minutes.
1-2 minutes late I guess that’s ok.
5 minutes late – I won’t count it for marks.
If you want more flexibility with time, a self-paced
class might be more convenient for you.
I keep some rules in order to make the class run smoothly
for everybody. Deadlines for tests is one of them.
Are there any sentences from your paragraph that would
like to discuss? Put them in Chat.
1.
Whoever lost something, and they can find it in the box.
Whoever lost something could find it in the box. noun clause-subject
If someone lost something, they could find it in the box.
2.
. I have daily
routine punc
I have a daily routine.
3.
I feel I’m very enjoy this time. And then I have more
energy all day
I feel I really enjoy
this time. Then I have more energy all day.
,and – compound sentences Don’t begin a sentence with ‘and’.
It‘s ok for very casual writing, but not for school writing.
4.
It’s wasted more time. Meaning?
It wastes a lot of time.
more than ...
Walking to school takes more time than driving
to school.
MY NOTES: Block of writing Format this into one block
of writing
EF6 paragraph- a block of writing
Everyone should have a magical place
where they can catch their filling of happiness. Where is yours? In my spare
time, I love to run in Stanley Park - there is a bench hidden under a tree;
furthermore, from this spot you can see a remarkable sunset. Each time I
prepare a book and tea in a mug to take it with me. To be honest, it isn't only
stuff that I am taking with me. My secret is that I love ice creame. From time
to time I am driving through Passione Gelato and buying there a scoop of salted
caramel ice cream on the way to the Park. It goes without saying, you can
imagine a picture of my best spare time: me sitting on the bench with a book
and a mug of tea, sometimes with a scoop of salted caramel gelato. Here, I can
say that I caught my happiest moments to be mindful, to be myself and to be in
nature.
Not a block of writing.
Everyone should have a magical place
where they can catch their filling of happiness.
Where is yours? In my spare time, I
love to run in Stanley Park - there is a bench hidden under a tree;
furthermore, from this spot you can see a remarkable sunset.
Each time I prepare a book and tea
in a mug to take it with me. To be honest, it isn't only stuff that I am taking
with me.
My secret is that I love ice creame.
From time to time I am driving through Passione Gelato and buying there a scoop
of salted caramel ice cream on the way to the Park.
It goes without saying, you can
imagine a picture of my best spare time: me sitting on the bench with a book
and a mug of tea, sometimes with a scoop of salted caramel gelato.
Here, I can say that I caught my
happiest moments to be mindful, to be myself and to be in nature.
Paragraphs - narrative writing
Paragraph writing
Types of paragraphs:
narrative writing – telling a story
narrative paragraph – tells a short story (100-150 w)
narrate (v) – narrator (n) (person who tells a story)
narrative writing- often first-person narration “I”
narration tells a story and can illustrate a point
We tell a story to someone in order to make a point, to
teach something, to comment on something.
My friend’s mother tells long boring pointless stories.
Point of View
in Narrative Essays
first-person,
third-person
Talk about sources of great narrative
storytelling
book series - “Chicken Soup for the Soul”
storytelling podcasts- The Moth Podcast
STRUCTURE
Grabber
Topic sentence
Supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
Respond to the topic that is given by the
teacher.
Topic: Write
about a scary experience that happened to you when
you were a child.
Grabber
Did you ever get lost when you were a kid?
Topic Sentence
The time I
got lost when I was a kid was very scary.
Supporting sentences- tell the story in 5-7 sentences
I remember that I was out shopping with my mother. She was
looking at clothes, and I wandered away. I saw her across the store and walked
over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my
mother. It was a stranger. KEEP TELLING
THE STORY TO THE END
Concluding sentence
When my mother finally found me, she looked very relieved.
My fear left me as she took my hand and we left the store together.
ROUGH COPY
Did you
ever get lost when you were a kid? The time I got lost when I was a kid was very scary. I remember that I was out shopping
with my mother. She was looking at clothes, and I wandered away because it was
boring. After a few minutes of walking around, I saw her across the store and walked
over to her. When I got next to her, I realized that this person was not my
mother. It was a stranger. I was scared. I ran around the store yelling for
her. She heard me and came right over. She had been looking for me, too. When
my mother finally found me, she looked very relieved. My fear left me as she
took my hand and we left the store together. That was a scary moment for me.
(140 words)
Grabber
Topic
sentence
Supporting
sentences
Concluding
sentence
The colours will not go onto the blog.
Homework:
Think about a scary thing that happened to you when you were
a kid.
Write a narrative paragraph of about 100-150 words about
that.
We can share them tomorrow. You can either share it with the
class in text, or you may want to read it out loud.
We can go and do our homework now.
I will stay on Zoom.
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