TGIF- Thank god it’s
Friday!
Three local
mountains for skiing and snowboarding-
Mount Seymour- smallest
and least expensive
Grouse Mountain-
bigger and more $, gondola, parking is terrible
Cypress Mountain-
biggest and most expensive, best local mountain
day pass or season pass
– individual or family
Whistler-Blackcomb –
amazing but $$$
Big White- $600 per
day?
lantern festival in
China
Korean markets on
Loughheed Highway in Coquitlam
Today’s agenda
· Continue “I Confess”
Small
group discussion /colearning “Thought Questions”
Report out
to the class
· Teach compound sentences-semicolons-
transitional terms
· “Literary Terms”
· Listening exercise
· Picture Differences 1
· Daily pronunciation
Monday
· Causative verbs-
She helps
her sister fix the car.
You make
my week go smoothly.
·
Begin “Dead Man’s Path”
·
Begin work of quoting text “ “
·
HW Read “Dead Man’s Path”. Make notes about the
“Thought Questions
Tuesday
·
Continue “I Confess” and “Dead Man’s Path
·
Discuss compare/contrast writing
Tuesday
·
Test#3 – paragraph about both stories, comparing
Module “I
Confess”
Author-
Wei Wenjuan
Important
to separate the writer and the story.
The
authorial voice in not necessarily the narrative voice.
The
narrator is a character that the author/writer created.
Separate
the author and the first-person narrator “I”
‘article’ a newspaper article, a magazine article,
short piece of non-fiction, reported speech
‘short
story’ – fiction, ‘in the text’ ‘in the story’ ‘in the article’
Read aloud
VOCAB
-“the boy
who monitored discipline”
class
leader, ‘class prefect’ - British vocab
a student
who has authority over the other students
IDIOM “the
teacher’s pet” teacher’s helper, favourite student
watching
the other kids
has power
-a rat
“Kai ratted his sister out.” – tell on another person,
IDIOM “a
tattletale”
My little
brother is a tattletale.
EXAMPLE OF
OVERHEATED LANGUAGE, too strong, overreaction, dramatic
“nonsense”
“severe
damage”
“great
faith”
“drawn on
all my reserves of strength”
“vowed to
myself”
“set
myself strict standards”
Possible
translation from Chinese, reflect the culture and setting of the story, OR the
writer is showing Mr. Wei’s personality
“red flag
of citation” – reward for a class doing well, competitive, encourage students
and teachers
#1 in
grade get red flag, interclass competition
SETTING-
China, Taiwan, 60s and 70s, maybe now
dedicated
teacher-
incident-
something that happens that is negative, conflict
accident-
someone gets hurt
IDIOM by
accident – not planned I met him by accident.
IDIOM run
into- meet without planning
How nice
to run into you.
extra
girlfriend
ex-girlfriend
“roared
fiercely” – like a wild animal, angry, aggressive
“harsh
voice”- seems suprised at his own reaction, maybe not experienced dealing with
student problems
“chastise”
– criticize, talk to harshl
IDIOM
“tear a strip of skin off somebody”
“give
someone a tongue-lashing”
Mr.Wei’s justification
for his own actions - “exert one’s authority”
exert(verb)
– to do an action with a lot of energy
She exerted
herself in the spin class.
“let the
naughtier children know who was in charge”
new
teacher – feeling pressure put on himself, uncertain about being a teacher,
inexperienced
IDIOM out
of the blue- suddenly, without expectation
“Mei’s
sister called her out of the blue after two years.”
IDIOM get
carried away- let your emotions take over, go too far in your actions, lost
perspective
articulate(v)-
speak clearly and precisely
articulate(adj)-
the characteristic of being able to speak and precisely
She articulated
(v) what she wanted clearly.
She is
very articulate (adj) child.
seal(n)- a
stamp that people use instead of their signature
used for official
documents
“inscribed”
“carving”
font-
style of letter
What font
do you use? Times New
Roman
What font
do you use? Arial
What font
do you use? Calibri
What font
do you use? Bernard
What font
do you use? Comic sans
register(verb)-
understand
I didn’t
register/understand what you said.
settle(verb)-
calm down, cover
rather(adj)
quite
It is
rather cold today.
I find it
rather cold.
-similar
themes between “I Confess” and “Ice Storm”
-theme-
underlying meaning, deep message about human nature
The stories
in this class have been about power/authority/position and how people use
power.
On Monday,
let’s continue with “Dead Man’s Path”.
·
Small group (4-5) discussion questions
“I
Confess” Thought Questions
Foreshadowing
– hint about something that going to happen in the story
Discuss
power, status and how Mr Wei uses his power and status
Relate story to real life- kids, etc.
“‘I Confess’
Though Questions”
conflict-
struggle, fight
vs – versus-
compete, against
Vancouver Canucks
vs Calgary Flames
Types of
conflict:
EXTERNAL
CONFLICTS
-person vs
person-
-person vs
society/culture-
-person vs
nature-
-person vs
technology-
-person vs
supernatural-
INTERNAL
CONFLICT
-person vs
herself/himself-
3. person
vs ?
TS person
vs himself- Mr Wei vs himself, internal conflict
1.
emotions- returning to school- former student,
happy but lack of self-confidence
happiness
about banner- due to insecurity as a new teacher
2.
realizes he carved the characters-
confronting, facing the student that he was, confronting his past
3.
frustration created by “incident” – everything
was going well until this
TS person
vs person- Mr.Wei and Wang Wei
1.Mr Wei
very aggressive toward the student
2.didn’t
listen to the student, prejudged
3.wouldn’t
let student explain, cut him off, shuts him down
4.forcing him
to admit something that he didn’t do
TS person
vs society Mr. Wei vs other teachers
1.worried
about what other teachers would think
2 feels a
need to prove himself
3etc
Listening Questions
1.
Are most people under two meters (six feet)
tall or over two meters (six feet) tall?
2.
Does the moon revolve around the earth?
3.
What do you mix with black to get the colour
grey? US color gray
4.
Which continent lies directly west of Asia?
5.
How many grams are in a kilogram?
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