EF67 Class 18 Literary Terms, What Happened During the Ice Storm

 

EF67

Good afternoon, everyone.

 

Today’s agenda

·      “Literary Terms”- conflict

·      Continue “What Happened During the Ice Storm”

·      Begin complex sentences- noun clauses

 

Friday

·      Orange Shirt Day “Day of Truth and Reconciliation”

·      Lecture on First Nations

·      Continue complex sentences- noun clauses

 

Monday- no school

“National Day for Truth and Reconciliation”

 

Tuesday

·      Test#2 – paragraph about “Ice Storm”

 

 

opportunity to challenge your skills and grow your abilities

 

 

 

 

 

POEM AND SHORT STORY

 

 “Trees in Ice” and “What happened During the Ice Storm- related

 

hail- small pieces of ice falling like rain

freezing rain- cold winter weather, not usual in Vancouver

common in other parts of Canada-

 

l  Begin with poem “trees in ice”

Teach from “How to Read a Poem”

 

poem, poetry

Did you study poetry in your home country?

-memorize poems

 

 

free verse, early 20^th Century style

 

Canadian Modernist nature poetry

 

Show “GroupSeven” paintings

The Group of Seven paintings- National Gallery, Ottawa

 

 

trees boughs weighed down by heavy snow

silver thaw- trees boughs weighed by ice

freezing rain- superchilled rain that freezes on impact

everything gets covered with layer of frozen rain, ice

silver thaw- trees, cars, people covered with a thing layer of ice

 

Show “Silver Thaw 1,2,3,4” pictures

Walk throughpoem

Visual representation of theme

 

ice storm- weather occurence in Canada

 

 

 

 

l  “What Happened During the Ice Storm”

Read aloud.

Think about setting, plot, conflictm character.

Also new vocabulary

-pheasant- wild bird, game bird,

-game, game animal- you can hunt it

contrast

-livestock – domesticated farm animals, keep for $ to use

wild pheasants

 

rabbit snare -

 

hunter- PAL, Hunting Licence, hunting tags

 

-cattle- group of cows

huddle(v,n)- get into a small close group, sports team, hide from the rain or cold

flush- scare wild birds into the open

flush – get a red face

IDIOM flush- rich, lots of money

 

CONTINUE MONDAY

Review “Thought Questions” for Monday

“What Happened During the Ice Storm”

 

Small groups (4-5)

Chat/Discuss Thought Questions, make notes of new ideas

Relaxed, fun talking, sharing ideas, sharing knowledge, collaborating, co-learning

 

New vocab:

crouching(v) crouch(v)

blindfolded(a) blindfold(v)

huddle(v)

pounce(v)

clinging(v) clingy(a)

flake(v)(n)

ditch(n)(v) She ditched her useless idiot husband. dump

barn(n)

 

‘But” – pivot point in the story, change in tone, conflict

-         what follows is a mix of beauty and danger/menace

 

silver thaw- freezing rain

pheasant – wild bird, game bird

 

 

harvest(v,n)- usually crops,

euphemism- harvest kill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

conflict – struggle, strife

vs – versus(prep) against  Teenager sports- versus(v)

 

External conflicts

*person vs person conflict-

*person vs nature conflict-

*person vs society/culture conflict-

*person vs supernatural conflict-

*person vs technology conflict-

 

Internal conflict

*person vs herself/himself conflict- overcoming trauma

 

 

 

Great quotation from a movie: Just because somebody talks with an accent doesn’t mean they think with an accent.

 

sir

ma’am