Good morning, everyone.
This is the Period 1 (9:15-11:30 am)
class for these courses:
English Foundations 5
English Foundations 6
Composition/Writing 567
We will get started at 9:15.
Teacher: Allan Haley
Email address: ahaley@vsb.bc.ca
You can me by my first name: Al
Today’s agenda:
·
Continue course overview
·
Classmate introductions- spoken
·
Email protocol, attachments
·
HW Please
send me an email by 5PM. This is just a test.
Remember to put your
name and class in the subject line.
I will respond to you.
Thanks. Perfect.
Al
Thursday
·
Finish email attachments
·
Begin Goalsetting module
·
Begin sentence types- simple
·
HOMEWORK Career
module
Friday
·
Continue Goalsetting module
·
Continue simple sentences
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Monday
·
Quiz#1 simple sentences
·
Career module
** THE
THINGS WE WILL BE STUDYING IN THIS CLASS
-FOCUS OF MY CLASS
*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, but you have
to do it.
FOUR SENTENCE TYPES
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX
COMPOUND COMPLEX
The building blocks of all writing in
English. I will teach you these in great detail.
We will do quizzes on sentence types.
PARAGRAPHS- different kinds of
paragraphs
-narrative writing
-literary paragraph -writing about short
stories
PROBABLY- ESSAY – several paragraphs together, five-paragraph
essay
* READING
-short stories
-poems
-news articles, current events
-No novel for this class
*LISTENING AND SPEAKING
-I will be talking a lot. You will be
talking too.
I will speak at a normal pace, slightly
slower than if I were talking with my friends. It helps people to understand if
you speak a bit slower than usual. For expert examples of very good public
speaking, listen to CBC radio: 690 AM. 105.7 FM. Listen to how the announcers
speak. They speak at a nice relaxed pace. News, interviews, interesting
subjects
Commercial radio announcers tend to talk
much more quickly.
My opinion – the quality of the
discussion is very low.
e.g. KISS FM,
Your speaking
Speak as much as you want. Chime in.
Join the conversation. Don’t be shy. Ask as many questions as you want.
Take a chance. Be a bit brave.
“Sorry. I have a question. May I ask a
question?” YES!! You don’t have to ask. 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 Quan.
Be a Talking Tim and a Chatty Cathy.
Speaking out loud – very important,
essential skill
shy, intraverted, reticent- don’t like
to talk, quiet people
Push yourself to speak up. Step out of
your comfort zone.
- being able to communicate, express
yourself, express your ideas clearly
- job, school, career, socially
You have to practice. Jump in.
- mimic, follow, copy
- practice, adapting, making the
language your own
If you are not speaking out loud, you
are sitting in a car with the engine turned off.
IDIOM- a Chatty Cathy – someone who
talks a lot, talkative
She is a Chatty Cathy. She likes to talk
a lot. She is gregarious. She is a very talkative person. She is very social.
He is very quiet. He is very taciturn.
He never opens his mouth.
He is as quiet as a mouse.
Some people are more extraverted. – seek
social interaction
Some people are more introverted –
prefer solitude and deep connections with few people
People fall on the spectrum between
extraverted and introverted.
If you are quiet and shy, no problem.
You still have to talk in order to get better.
Sometimes we have to push ourselves out
of our comfort zones.
shy – afraid of social judgement
If you want to learn to swim, you have
to jump into the pool.
You have to be willing to make mistakes
in order to get better.
You can take the opportunities to use
English in your daily life.
The best way to learn a language is
socially.
Meetup.com groups
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MARKS:
YOUR MARKS WILL COME FROM THESE:
-QUIZZES- 6 points per quiz, worth about
25-28% of your final mark
Quiz1- 6 simple sentences
Quiz2- 6 compound sentences
POSSIBLY Quiz2b- 6 compound sentences
Quiz3- 6 complex sentences with adverb
clauses
Quiz4- 6 complex sentences with noun
clauses
Quiz5- 6 complex sentences with
adjective clauses
Quiz6- 6 compound complex sentences
Vocabulary for the quizzes will come
from the non-fiction and news articles we read together in class. We will
choose the vocabulary for the quizzes together.
After we have finished all of the
quizzes, there will be an opportunity for a replacement quiz, with which you
may replace one of your quiz marks. The replacement quiz will cover all of the
sentence types, not just the topic of the quiz you are replacing. You will have
to sign up for this replacement quiz. I will talk more about that in a few
weeks.
-TESTS-
12 points per test- worth about 52-58% of your final mark
Test1,2,3,4,5?- 150-200 word paragraphs
on the topic we are covering at the time.
After we have finished all of the tests,
there will be an opportunity for a replacement test, with which you may replace
one of your test marks. The replacement test will cover a new topic, not the
topic of the test you are replacing.
-PRESENTATIONS
Short presentations 12 pts, same as a
test
-ESSAY- worth about 10% of your mark
300+ word multiparagraph essay on a
general topic
There will be NO opportunity for a
replacement essay, as your essay will be written on the second to last day.
-EXTRAS,
BONUS – 2-5%
Little things, HW, extra task
-SPOKEN WORK, PARTICIPATION, BEING
ACTIVE IN CLASS- 10 points- worth usually around 10-12%.
-6 Quizzes 6pts each- about 25%
-5 Paragraphs- about 50%
-2 Presentation Tests 12pts each- about
10%
-Essay 10%
-Spoken 10pts- about 10%
-Extra 1pt each- about 2-3%
NOTE: The pass mark in BC is 50%.
WRITING QUIZZES AND TESTS
You can write your quizzes, tests, and
essay on paper or on a word processor (on computer). If you use a computer, you
must turn spellcheck and grammar check off. If I see you are using spell check
or grammar check , you will not be allowed to submit quiizes and tests by
computer anymore.
Choice- paper or computer.
You will have to bring your own computer
(laptop).
You will have 20 minutes for a quiz, 55
minutes for a paragraph test, and 2 hours for the essay.
I don’t take late work, so you must
pass-in or email your work to me by the deadline, which will be during class
time.
All of the quizzes and tests will be
during class time at school. I do not do take-home tests, etc. If you need
take-home tests, you can take a self-paced class.
If you need a lot of flexibility with
your quizzes, tests, and essay, you can take a self-paced class.
This is a chockful class and we get
through a lot of material. If you miss class time, I can’t go back and reteach
things. You can find the material on the blog. haleyshec.blogspot.com
chockful- very busy Mei had a chockful day yesterday. She was
running around all day.
If you miss a quiz or test, you can use
the replacement quiz or test to make it up.
If you know you are going to miss a quiz
or test, let me know a couple of days before. We can arrange another time for
you to take the quiz or test.
** You must keep up the work. If you
miss classes, are late, or miss quizzes and tests, you will fall behind.
**
EMAIL PROTOCOL:
In the Subject line of your email,
please put your name, class.
For example: Joe Chen, EF6
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.
PAPER FORMAT
Please use lined 8 1/2 X 11 inch paper.
Put your name, class and date in the top
righthand corner above the line.
Title line -Name of test, quiz
Write between the margins (red lines).
Write in black or blue pen. NOTE: Black
ink gets higher marks on Provincial Exams
Please double space.
Please orient your paper rightside up.
It’s easy to forget these details when
you are focussed on writing.
focused focussed
American spelling and Canadian spelling
differ sometimes.
meter metre
center centre
neighbor neighbour
color colour
airplane(Can) aeroplane(UK)
Canadian spelling is closer to British
spelling.
You can choose what you want- try to be
consistent.
neighbor colour – inconsistent
neighbour colour- consistent
Style choice.
spellcheck – see errors, not errors
Any questions or
concerns, let me know. Don’t be shy.
***
TALKING WORK:
Small groups of 3-4 people.
A. Interview your partners.
1.
Name
2.
Home
3.
Family
4.
Job
5.
Travel
6.
Hobbies
7.
Future plans
B. Make notes.
C. Introduce one of your partners to the
class.
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