My classes:
P1 EF34
P2 WI567
Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Return Quiz4
Optional RW for bonus point
Pass it in today or first thing tomorrow
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Midterm recommendations one-on-one meetings-
half the class
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Talk about grabbers, hooks for paragraphs and
essays
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Continue Process Analysis Paragraphs
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Preposition exercises
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Vocabulary activities pp7-8, from last Friday
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Continue to talk about verb tenses
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Thursday
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Midterm recommendations one-on-one meetings-
other half of the class
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Practice process paragraph
AFTER XMAS
Test#3- process paragraph
Friday
Not 100% settled- SHEC sing-along – Christmas carols
Period 2, Room 202- Everybody is welcome. People can sing if
they want to. We will have lyric sheets to sing from.
Coming up after Xmas Break/Winter Break!
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Adjective clauses
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Sentence combining
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Phrasal verbs
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Modals/Modal Auxiliairies
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Persuasive paragraphs
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Essays – five-paragraph model
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Essay types -compare/contrast
-persuasive
-literary?
Midterm Recommendations
We are past the halfway point in the term. We have only three
weeks left.
Registration for Quarter 3 (February to April) courses will begin Monday,
January 6th. You will be able to register via the South Hill website as usual.
You will be emailed a link to follow in order to register.
I will show the class how to register. I will demonstrate what to
do.
In order to register, you need a recommendation from your teacher.
The midterm recommendation is a snapshot or picture of how you are
doing at this moment, based on your average so far.
Today and Thursday this week, I will give you a midterm
recommendation for which English class you should register for in Q3. If you
are not going to take a class in Q3, you can use the midterm rec to register
for Q4.
We will have a short chat at my desk. We will talk about how things
are going so far in this course and what your next course should/could be. I
will put your recommendation into a spreadsheet for the advisors.
By ‘so far’, I mean we have finished almost six of nine weeks. “So
far’ means ‘up to now’.
If you want a copy of my comments, you can take a picture of the
comments on your phone.
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 points for rewrites.
The minimum average for early registration is 65%.
The final pass mark at the end of course is 50%.
If you are between 50-64%, we can talk again next week.
New BC Ministry of Education marking categories:
Emerging – first steps, beginning, not ready to move up
Developing- partial understanding, getting better
Proficient- have skills and abilities
Extending- sophisticated understanding and ability
REMINDER:
Tests are worth double what quizzes are worth.
Test X/6 = X/12
Quiz X/6 = X/6
RW Bonus 1 pt each
Spoken1 X/10
Spoken 2 X/10 (last half of the course)
Essays (EF5,6.7)
For the final three weeks, we will keep doing tests and quizzes
until the end of the course. Plus, there will be a second spoken mark for the
final few weeks worth X/15. Also, we will do an essay or two.
You will have lots of opportunity to bring your marks up in the
last three weeks of class.
You will also have lots of opportunity to bring your marks down if
you stop working.
This is halftime in the soccer game.
OPTIONS for registration- Stay at your current level or move up to
the next level
EF5- EF5 or EF6
EF6- EF6 or EF7
E10- E10 or E11
E11- E11-12
E12- E12 retake for a higher mark
Midterm recs
The South Hill English department strongly recommends that
students who are marginally passing (50-60%) not advance to the next level.
People sometimes move up to English classes that they are not
prepared for. This is up to you. The passmark in BC is 50%.
We want to encourage students who are doing well in classes to
register early for the next level. Therefore, the minimum average required to
receive a recommendation from me for early registration (starting January
6) for the next level is 65%. This is to allow stronger students first chance 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 65%, you will have wait a while to register for the
next level.
NOTE: At the end of the quarter,the passmark is 50%. That is your
final mark on the last day.
The 65% is just for early registration.
You can move up to the next level with 50% at the end of the
course, but I don’t think that is strong enough. You have to get better at your
English.
Phones away.
Write a sentence with a noun
clause for each.
Pass in by 12:30.
1. believe student
2. think advice
3. remember computer
4. understand problem
5. say magazine
6. feel meeting
Structure of a Paragraph:
Grabber/Hook
Topic sentence –
topic, controlling idea
Supporting
sentences
Concluding sentence
Grabber- hook
OPTIONAL – HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED
MY ADVICE: When you
are writing a paragraph or essay, begin your paragraph or essay with a grabber/hook.
Grabbers/Hooks-
used in advertising
Grabber
-usually first
sentence, before the Topic Sentence
-grabs the reader’s
attention, hooks your reader attention
-makes them pay
attention, makes them want to read your writing
-effective attention-getting
device for writing, highly recommended
MY ADVICE: Use a
grabber. It will make your writing way more interesting.
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE
Grabber
Topic sentence
Supporting
sentences
Concluding sentence
Good for paragraphs,
for essays, for speeches, e.g. TED Talks https://www.ted.com/
TEDVancouver- downtown VPL
**
Seven different kinds of grabbers/hooks to
choose from:
1.
- a funnel, general to specific statement
-say something big and general, then narrow
it down to you specific topic funnel
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PROCESS
How to eat a taco.
GRABBER-FUNNEL
Some food is eaten with knife and fork;
some food is eaten with chopsticks. Howver, tacos are eaten by hand. It cna be
a mess! TS
2.
-write a short anecdote- short personal story to
illustrate a point, very short (1-2 short sentences)
VOCAB anecdotes- short personal stories that
illustrate a point
personalizes your writing, establishes a
connection to your reader,
establishes empathy- same feeling
sympathy – feel sorry about someone’s situation
anecdote is told first-person point-of-view
“I”
first person is very personal,
friendly-sounding, close
I eat a lot of tacos because my mother used to make them for me. They can
be messy, but I will teach how to eat them.
3.
-historical reference- knowledge about history
Tacos are a traditional food from Mexico.
However, that have spread all of over the world. However, if you don’t know how
to eat it, it will spread all over your shirt.
4.
-fact or statistic- numbers
80%,
four out of five, 2/3 of ..., 37,000,000 people...
Millions
of tacos are eaten every day; also, billions of napkins are wasted wiping food
off tables.
5. -ask
a question (answered by the topic sentence or thesis statement) PROBABLY THE
EASIEST WAY
Are
you a messy eater? Have you ever made a big mess eating taco? Have you ever
embarassed yourself eating a taco?
If
so, I can tell you how to do it right.
6. -relevant
quotation by a famous/important person
Jmes
Beard said, "Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” Another
universal experience is dropping taco all over yourself.
***PRO TIP: Books of quotations.- Have some
quotations in your memory. It is very helpful to reference when you are
writing.
Look
up quotations organized by theme.
Debating
teams- technique to begin with a relevant quotation
7. -relevant idiom from any
language, proverb, saying
-don’t translate well, have
a lot of meaning
-these can be really fun
and colourful
Gold
para
In
Mandarin, we say “If you are gold, you will shine eventually.”
In
English, we say, “Cream rises to the top.”
In
French, they say, “La creme de la creme.” The best of the best.
We
say, “All that glitters is not gold.”
In
Ukranian we say “A little gold is expensive, too.”
In
Korean, we say, “Time is golden.”
In
Chinese, we say that a good government job is a ‘golden rice bowl.’
In
Farsi, we say that a person who is making good money at a job has their “bread
in the oil.”
There
is a saying in Japanese: ‘Even monkeys fall from trees.’ It means everyone
makes mistakes. It’s important to keep going after you did something wrong.
IDIOM The apple doesn’t fall far from the
tree. (English)
Christmas cake. (Japanese)
Playing piano/violin
(music) to a cow. (Chinese)
Pearls before swine.
(English) -showing beautiful pearls to a
pig
In
one ear and out the other. – a person won’t listen to you
REVIEW of ways to do grabbers/hooks:
1.
funnel
2.
anecdote
3.
history
4.
fact/statistic
5.
question EASIEST
6.
quotation
7.
idiom/saying
