EF56

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

We will wait a few minutes for people to arrive.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Test#3- paragraph about Rosa Parks or Viola Desmond

·      Discuss midterm recommendations

·      Review causative verbs from homework

·      Review Quiz#3

·      HW   Read “Roses Sing on New Snow” for Thursday

Read over “Literary Terms” for tomorrow

 

 

 

Wednesday

·      Midterm recommendations

·      Begin noun clauses

·      Begin Literary Terms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Causative verbs from homework

 

1.    He makes me do his homework, and I do not get anything in return.

He forces me to do his homework, and I do not get anything in return.

He asks/tells me to do his homework, and I do not get anything in return.

 

2.    John allows me to touch his dog and feed the dog.

John lets me touch his dog and feed the dog.

 

3.    I force my daughter to do the housework.

I tell/ask/get my daughter to do the housework.

 

 

Not causative – sentence practice

4.    Your son forgot the egg he was cooking, so I turned off the stove. COMPOUND

5.    She refused our offer to help although she was already need some assistance.  vf

She refused our offer to help although she already needed some assistance. 

She refused our offer to help although she was already in need of some assistance.

I am in need of some help.

He is in need of a job.  He needs a job.

6.    I honour my parents by showing respect to them; however, my sister doesn’t (do it).

7.    I tried to rob the old man, so that I was in trouble.

 

Confusion:

, so  - compound  -outcome

so that  -complex (adverb clause)  -reason why you do something

I tried to rob the old man, so I was in trouble.

I tried to rob the old man so that I could get his money.

 

We love to swim, so we go to the pool every week.

We go to the pool every week so that we can swim.

 

I love to eat pizza, so I eat some everyday.

 

CONFUSION  , so  &  so that

 

 

 

Midterm Recommendations

 

Registration for the Second Quarter (November to January) begins very soon.

I do not yet know which classes I will teaching in the Second Quarter. As soon as I know, I will tell the class.

 

Tomorrow, I will give out interim recommendations for which class you should register for for Second Quarter.

This interim recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests have done so far this term. Also, there will be a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you do in class.

 

These are the pieces of marked work we have done so far:

Quiz 1,1RW, 2, 2RW, 3

Test 1,2,3

Spoken

 

Quizzes are worth about 25-30% of your mark.

Tests are worth approximately 50-60% of your mark.

Spoken is worth approximately 10-15% of your mark.

 

The minimum average required to receive a recommendation to register early for the next level is 60%. This is to prevent students who are not ready or on the edge from registering in a class that may be too high for them.

The final passmark for classes is 50%.

The South Hill English department strongly recommends that students who are barely passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.

 

You will have an opportunity to replace one of your quiz marks in the next few weeks.

You will have an opportunity to replace one of your test marks in the next few weeks.

 

We have four weeks left in our course. You can change your mark significantly depending on the quizzes and tests yet to come. We have will about 3-4 quizzes and 3-4 tests yet to come in the term.

 

Tomorrow, I will meet with everyone seperately to talk about midterm.