Tuesday, 13 December 2022

EF67 Class 22 - Interim recs, quotation work, paragraph review

 

EF67

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Explain midterm recommendations

·      Continue quotation work

Go over your examples from homework

·      Review paragraph structure, format, and process

Test4 tomorrow on “I Confess”

·      Listening work

 

Wednesday

·      Test paragraph

·      Begin adjective clause

·      HW

 

Thursday

·      Continue adjective clause

Quiz later

 

Friday

·      Midterm recs

·      Xmas class

 

Two-week Winter Break

 

January

·      Finish adjective clauses

·      Noun clauses

·      Parellelism

 

 


Midterm Recommendations

 

Registration for Quarter 3 courses (February to April) will begin Wednesday, January 4th. You will be able register via the South Hill website as usual.

 

In order to register, you need a recommendation from me. On Friday, I will give you an interim recommendation for which English class you should register for in Quarter 3. I will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for the advisors.

 

Interim- midterm, halfway point in the term

 

The interim recommendation will be based on the quizzes and tests you have done so far this term. Also, I will give you a spoken mark out of 10 based on how much speaking you do in class. Plus there are a few points for submitting HW.

 

REMINDER:

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.

 

OPTIONS- Stay or move up

EF6- EF6 OR Lit10/Comp10/EF7 level

EF7- EF7 OR Eng 11

 

 

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

 

Therefore, the minimum average required to receive a recommendation for early registration for the next level is 60%. This is to allow stronger students first shot at registering. This is also to dissuade students who are not ready from registering in a class that may be too high for them.

 

We want the strongest students to have an opportunity to register first.

If you’re below, you will have wait a while to register for Summer.

 

NOTE: 60% is the reasonable cutoff point for early registration starting tomorrow.

However, the final passmark for courses in BC is 50%. That is your final mark on the last day.

You can move up to the next level with 50%, but I don’t think that is strong enough. You have to get better at your English.

 

IMPORTANT:      The minimum average for a recommendation to register early for the next level starting tomorrow is 60%.

The final passmark is 50%.

 

 

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 about 3 quizzes and 3-4 tests yet to come this term. Also, we will likely have an essay. Plus the in-class spoken mark and the HW pts.

 

You can bring your mark up.

Also, you can bring your mark down.

This is the halfway point.

 

You will have an opportunity to replace one of your quiz marks in the final week of the course. You will have an opportunity to replace one of your test marks in final week of the course.

 

How to figure out your mark so far:

Quiz 1                   x/6

Quiz 2                   x/6

LATER THIS WEEK Quiz 3                x/6

 

Test 1                    x/6 X2 = x/12  e.g. 4/6=8/12

Test 2                    x/12

Test 3                    x/12

TOMORROW Test4      X12

 

Spoken 1*            x/10

*Based on your demonstrated ability to use English in a discursive manner.

 

HW pts 1-2

 

SCENARIO #1

72%

60%+ = OK for the next level

 

SCENARIO #2

55%

60%- = this is good level to work at, stay

 

SCENARIO #3

37%

Suggets some challenges that must be overcome.

 

 

 

 

You can figure out roughly your own average right now, except for spoken.

 

Add up your quizzes and tests. Guess at your spoken mark. Add 1-2 pts if you have been emailing your homework.

 

SCENARIO #1

Q1 3/6

Q2 4/6

Q3 ?

T1 8/12

T2 7/12

T3 9/12

T4 ?

RW 1

SP 7/10

HW

 

38/58 = 65.5%

 

 

These are your examples from homework of sentences that incorporate

quoted text.

 

1.     A boy found some “characters” carved in Wang Wei’s “desktop” and reported it to Mr. Wei. “desktop”- special word?

2.     Even though Mr. Wei is a new teacher without much teaching experience, the school still “ show[s] great faith” in him and asks him to manage the eighth graders.

3.     Mr. Wei used many ways to force Wang Wei to “confess” his mistake, but he failed. Then he thought he had to try different way from “another angle”.

4.     Mr. Wei finally found these “Song-dynasty style” typefaces script were covered carved by himself when he was an eighth grader at this school.

5.     Mr. Wei gained “great faith”(1) from the school because he worked hard.

6.     Mr. Wei “exert[ed] [his] authority”(1) so that the students could know who was “in charge”(1).

7.     Mr. Wei was so ashamed that he was “at a loss”(3) what to say next. 

8.     Wang Wei wanted to explain himself; however, he was"unable to articulate" his thoughts. 

9.     In the end, Mr Wei realized that he made the "carved" letters. As a result, he prepares himself to "confess".

10.Mr Wei "vowed to [himself]" not to let the school down. pride in his class accomplishments and disappointments. 

11.Mr. Wei wanted to “exert [his] authority” to solve all the problems.

 

Mr. Wei “exert[ed] [his] authority”.(1)

Mr. Wei wanted to “exert [his] authority”.

 

12.When Mr. Wei knew it was he who had carved the characters on the desk years ago, he found the “ blood rush to [his] head”.

 

IDIOM The blood rushed to my head.

 

13.Mr. Wei sensed that “terror and guilt” were in Wang Wei’s eyes.

Mr. Wei sensed “terror and guilt” in Wang Wei’s eyes.

 

14.Mr. Wei was a grateful teacher because he “vowed to himself” to work hard for the Linhu High which he studied there where he once studied.

15. Mr. Wei intended to have more investigation investigate more/further when Wang Wei used the word “twisted” to describe the characters. 

16. A memory flashed in Mr. Wei’s mind when he saw the characters of the “Song-dynasty” were written on the other line.

17. Wang Wei’s way of “awkwardly standing” showed how scared he was.

18.Mr.Wei used such a harsh voice to “chastise a student“ for his wrong deeds.

 

scold / get after   I had to get after my son about his room.

 

19.The “puffy-faced “student was taken back to the class for more investigation into the matter.

20.Mr.Wei felt like “blood rush to [his] head” after  seeing his own name carved in the desktop.

21.Mr.Wei was grateful to the school for having great faith in [him].  “”?

 

  “ How many quotations?

Paragraph 150ww – 3-4 is enough

 

 

Good work. A very strong start.

 

 

Review paragraph structure, format, and process

 

*Structure

Grabber- choose one of seven ways

Topic sentence- on topic, topic and controlling idea

Supporting sentences- with “ ”

Concluding sentence

(at least 150 words)

 

*Format

Doublespace

Margins

Pen

Paper

Indent

 

*Process

Prewriting

1.    Read the question.

2.    Brainstorm ideas, vocab, make notes

3.    Put the ideas in order- TIME, SPACE, IMPORTANCE

Writing

4.    Write sentences. Grabber TS SS CS

5.    Proofread, edit

6.    Good copy Submit your legible rough copy

 

 

 

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