We will get started
at 12:00
It feels like Spring
is just around the corner.
Today’s agenda
·
Begin
“Trees in Ice” “What Happened During the Ice Storm”
· Teach compound sentences-semicolons
· Daily pronunciation
Wednesday
· Continue
“What Happened During the Ice Storm”
Thursday
· Test#2
Friday
· No school
Professional
Day
No school
for you
Monday
· BC Family Day
No school
for us
Tuesday
· Back to the grind.
·
The French people from Nova Scotia are
Acadians.
The French people in Louisians are called
Cajuns.
jambalaya- meat and fish stew
blackened chicken/ blackened catfish
Newfoundland chocolate bars- dried fish
POEM
AND SHORT STORY
“Trees in Ice” related to “What happened During the Ice Storm
-
related thematically
theme-
main underying idea of a peom, story, song, music
“Ice
Storm” -hail- small pieces of ice falling like rain
-freezing
rain- cold winter weather, not usual in Vancouver
common
in other parts of Canada-
-superchilled
rain, falls as rain, liquid- freezes on impact with ground or trees
-Silver
Thaw – everything is covered with ice from freezing rain
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- no regular line length
-no regular rhyme
-no regular rhythm
early
20th Century style
Canadian
Modernist nature poem
Canada
has a lot of wild country.
Show
“GroupSeven” paintings
The
Group of Seven paintings- National Gallery, Ottawa
Emily
Carr paintings – BC, First Nations – Vancouver Art Gallery
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, conflict,
character.
Also new vocabulary
VOCAB
-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 -
There are lots of laws about hunting in Canada
hunter- PAL- Purchase and Acquisition Licence, Hunting
Licence, hunting tags – species tags -individual animals
-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
Birds are well camouflaged to hide in grass.
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