Good
morning, everyone.
We
will get started at 8:30
Al
Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
Class
blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com
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Talk about midterm recommendations
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Continue with noun clauses – your examples from
homework
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Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”
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Begin “Literary Terms” – setting, character,
plot
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“International Women’s Day”
Wednesday
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Quiz#4 noun clauses
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Continue with “Roses Sing on New Snow”
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Thursday
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Test #3 Paragraph about “Roses Sing on New Snow”
Friday
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Review feedback
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Midterm recommendations – one-on-one meetings
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**
Two-week Spring Break- March 14th-25th. We will be
back on the 28th.
**
We will have four more weeks in the term.
**
Midterm recommendations
Reigstration for April term will begin after Spring Break.
I have to give you you midterm recommendation on Friday.
Midterm recommendation – halfway mark, not final mark
Suggestions of where you should register for next term
Two options:
1.
Stay in your level
2.
Move up to the next level
The midterm recommendaiotons will be based on your marks so
far.
Quiz#1 simple x/6
Quiz#2 compound x/6
Quiz#3 adverb cl x/6
Quiz#4 noun cl x/6
(Wednesday)
Test#1 Rosa/Viola x/12 e.g 4/6=8/12
Test#2 RSoNS (Thursday) x/12
Spoken mark – how much talking you do in class x/10
Add up the marks and divide.
Q1 4/6
Q2 3.5/6
Q3 4.5/6
Q4 5/6
T1 1.5/6 = 3/12
T2 3.5/6 = 7/12
Spoken 9/10
36/58= 62%
School rule: The cutoff percentage for early reigistration
is 65%.
We want strong students moving on.
The final pass mark is 50%. The midterm cutoff for early
recommendation is 65%.
** If you are going to miss a quiz or test, let me know before.
We can arrange a makeup in the next day or so.
I can’t go back and replay history.
All you have to do is communicate, and I will be flexible.
Do you want to skip a grade? Go from EF5 to English 10?
Show me 90% and you got it.
We will do the midterm recommendations on Friday.
The meetings will be very short (3-4 minutes). We will chat
about how things are going and what you want to do next. I will have a
recommnedation based on your marks and with your wishes in mind.
**
Some of your examples of sentences with noun
clauses that you sent me for homework:
1.
I can't believe how I'm able to speak English
after I have been studying for two years.
2.
I don't know why you are yelling at me if
I'm beside you.
3.
I realize that learning English can be
pretty difficult.
1.
Emma believes that she will win the game again.
4.
Sarah yelled at the guy in a black jacket when
he was stealing a bike. adverb clause
5.
The crowd started to whisper how the chief
executive will lose his title.
6.
Whatever he is doing matters to me. noun
clause
7.
I realized that I had a few mistakes .
8.
Tom know why Sara blames him .
2.
The government announced that the testing policy for
Covid-19 has been canceled when you are crossing the border to
Canada. noun clause adverb clause
9.
I was wondering if you have a picture for the schedule
for next week?
10.
I think that house has a good price.
11.
The andlord said that your room is the cheapest in
this building, so do not move/leave.
12.
The music reminds me that life is beautiful.
She told me that she wants
to go to Alberta.
She said that she wants to
go to Alberta.
told/ said – bit different usage
The teacher told us that there will
be no school next week.
The teacher said that there will be
no school next week.
13.
I can't believe that a bag of chips is
already gone.
14.
Romeo wonders how he is going to fix his
marriage.
15.
Suzzen doesn't understand why she feels sick today.
she feel she feels subject verb agreement - #1
error
* I check every subject and every
verb for agreement.
16.
I really like how she take cares of elderly
people.
17.
She forgot why she phoned her husband.
18.
my My sister doesn't know how she explains
to my father where she was late. Meaning? RW
19.
He guessed how he will break up his girlfriend. Meaning?
20.
They heard why he ignored his parents. Meaning?
21.
my My small sister wanders what his thoughts are
like at the moment. Meaning?
22.
12) we think how we would help the injured.
23.
13) My son is wandering why he was deceived in
the test.
24.
15) we think that he hid the truth from her.
25.
She thinks that the situation is a bit difficult
to deal with.
26.
I realized that my sister’s played football at
school before coming home.
27.
I was wondering why I can’t ride a bike. vt – ok
I was thinking about how hard math is.
28.
She is wondering why her sister moved to Quebec.
29.
She doesn’t know why she misses her country
after she watches a movie.
30.
My classmate thinks that we will have exam
tomorrow.
31.
I wonder why my neighbor has a party every
weekend.
32.
Mr. John doesn’t know why his son doesn’t like
karate.
33.
Mary realized why her husband wanted to get
divorced with her.
34.
I can’t understand why he get went broke.
lose your money – go broke, went broke
35.
I don’t think that this is a good time to
travel.
36.
Tom found out from his mother that his father
is coming back home tonight.
Tom found out that his father is
coming back home tonight.
I found out from you about how I can
get a rebate on my phone.
37.
Do you know why the restaurant manager
asked the staff to return home?
38.
It was whispered that he was fired because of
his laziness.
39.
The lawyer stated that Alice is innocent.
40.
Maylin did not know why the governor could not
cook just a simple meal.
41.
John doesn’t know how to change the oil on his
car.
know + infinitive “to ABC” “to go to eat
to sleep
I don’t know how to speak French.
42.
Paul doesn’t understand how politics works.
43.
Maria has never mentioned how badly her father
treated her.
Maris has never told us how hard her
childhood was.
Joan always tells her kids how
much she loves them.
He didn’t know how beautiful she really
was.
I know how much she paid for her
car.
I know how hard this has been for
you. I went though it too a few years ago.
Janice’s mother knows how much
she wants to go to the party. Janice wants to go to the party very much.
Janice very much wants to go to
the party. British-style
44.
I can tell how much you love your son.
45.
I don’t understand why he likes to wear rainboots
everyday to school.
46.
He forgot what she asked him to buy at the grocery
store.
Excellent sentences. First rate!
Quiz#4 tomorrow
Verbs
1. say
2. think
3. believe
4. know
5. realize
6. wonder
Vocab
1. restaurant
2. chef – person cooking in a high end, fancy $$ restaurant
cooker cook – person, no fancy restaurant
3. invite
4. taste(v)(n) – sense of style, sensitivity to beautiful
things
5. spicy(adj)
6. prepare
7. imagination(n)- use your imagination
8. impatient(adj)- short tempered, short fuse
9. happily
10. finished
wages – hourly earnings, minimum wage in BC $15/hr
salary – annual income
cultural difference –
China, Japan, Iran -monthly earnings
Canada- annual earnings
piece work – paid by your productivity
arms -guns
armed(adj) -have a gun
In the US, many people go around armed.
open-carry states-
There was an outbreak of the flu in an old folks home in
Langley.
We can talk about “International
Women’s Day” tomorrow
“Roses Sing on New Snow”
Reading a story twice
First time- armchair reading- relax, enjoy the story, give
the general idea
1.setting- time, place, culture, milieu
2.characters- major, minor
3.plotline
Second reading- deeper, deeper meaning
1.symbols- meanings
2.repeated words
3.character – dynamic- Who is changing?
4.look for quotable words and phrases
The questions in a higher-level class will be deeper questions.
“Roses
Sing on New Snow” Discussion Questions
1. What
is the setting of the story?
-Chinatown, probably Vancouver
-immigration of men from China “their families and wives waited
in China”
-seems to link to building the Canadian railway
- very late 19th Century, very early 20th Century
2. Why
does Maylin cook in her father’s restaurant?
3. Is
Maylin a weak or strong person?
4. What
are some possible reasons Maylin named her dish “Roses Sing on New Snow”?
5. What
does Maylin mean when she says her dish is a product of the new world?
6. What
are some reasons the governor couldn’t cook “Roses Sing on New Snow” the same
as Maylin did?
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