Wednesday, 18 February 2026

P2 EF710 Class 11

 

 UPCOMING SENTENCE WORK:

Parallelism

Using quotations marks to incorporate borrowed text.

Sentence combining

 

Today’s Agenda

·         Attendance

·      Quarter 4-

Q1 Sept-Nov

Q2 Nov-Jan

Q3 Feb-Apr

Q4 Apr-Jun

Summer- 5 weeks, not guaranteed but likely

 

Registration for Q4 will begin next month.

I do not know what I will be teaching in Q4 yet.

I will find out hopefully in a few weeks.

WI567- Writing Improvement 567- excellent course for writing

You are welcome to join if I am teaching it, if you want to.

I rarely teach Eng 11 or Eng 12.

When I find out what I am teaching, I’ll tell the class.

 

Socials 11 & 12 – not offered in-class every quarter, option to do it self-paced (SP)

SP- on-line, do the work anywhere, ask students to come to school at least once a week to work in Room 203,

-tests are done in Room 203

-BC statistics- self-paced course- 90+% of students do not finish

Are you one of the golden 10%?

 

Analogy- January is the busiest month for gyms.

 

 

Consistency is the key of success. Daily practice.

consistent(adj) consistently(adv)

consistency- doing it every day whether you want to do or not

regular schedule

Mei was consistent in her study habits. She did a little bit each day.

 

·      Visual representations of Canadian nature- medium of paintings

*Emily Carr paintings

lodge pole pine

cedar trees- cedar does not rot when it gets wet

https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/visit/                                                                                      

 

*Group of Seven paintings

 

Sugar maple tree sap is boiled down into syrup.

 

·      Continue sentence work- “Complex Sentences”

·      Begin “I Confess”

 

Thursday

·      Continue sentence work

·      Continue “I Confess”

 

Return Test 2

Go over

Emphasis C1 & C5

Optional RW for one point.

·      Teach using quotation marks in academic writing “  ”

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 3

·      Prepare for Test 3 on “I Confess” probably Monday

 

Monday

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Begin “I Confess”

Chat groups of 4-5 people

Work on “Thought Questions”

Module “I Confess”

 

Author- Wei Wenjuan – not famous as far as I know

 

-same name Wei

-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

 

‘short story’ – fiction, ‘in the text’ ‘in the story’ ‘in the article’

text- the words of the story or novel

 

fiction- not real events- short story, novel,

non-fiction- news, documentary, history, biography, science

 

essay- French ‘to try’ a written attempt to explicate/explain/ describe/explore a topic in full

 

journal- French jour-day -diary, personal written record

 

English 10

Haley SHEC


 


Characteristics of short stories

 

These are some general characteristics of short stories.  They may not apply to every short story you read, but they will to most.

 

1)   A short story is short enough to read in one sitting.  In fact, it is designed to be read in one go.  You should strive to sit down and read it in one period of time. Usually a short story will be well under 10000 words, sometimes as little as a few hundred words.  I am surprised when a short story is longer than ten or twelve pages.

When you read a short story in one go, you get experience ‘unity of effect’. The story will exist in your mind as one entity. You want to avoid fragmenting the story by breaking it into pieces. It‘s not a good or satisfying way to read. It ruins the experience.

MY ADVICE: Defend time to do your reading.

 

My way for personal reading:  I give a book 100 pages.

-a page-turner

 

2)   A short story normally has one physical setting.  That is, all of the events of the story happen in one place.

 

3)   The time frame of a short story is normally very short.  Sometimes a story may take place over the course of a few hours or even a few minutes.  Rarely a short story will be segmented into events that take place over several days.  Usually, however, a short story will take place over one fairly abbreviated span of time.

 

 

 

4)   A short story deals with one plotline and does not diverge far from the main story.  There are rarely subplots or secondary plots (threads). Everything that happens in the story focuses on one incident.

 

TV – episodes

 

NOTE: Plot is the sequence of related events or actions in a story.  A plot can usually be broken down into a traditional five-part plot structure.  These parts are as follows:

1.    exposition - an introduction to the main characters, settings, and situations of the plot

2.    rising action - the events and complications that lead to an important and dramatic point in the plot

3.    climax - the point of greatest interest and emotional involvement in the plot

4.    falling action - the events that develop from the climax and lead to the conclusion

5.    resolution or denouement - the final outcome which ties up any loose ends left in the story

 

This structure can be depicted as a lopsided pyramid, with two base lines.

 

 

Next time you watch a movie, pay attention to how the plotline is delivered.

 

5)   A short story has very few characters, sometimes just one or two.  Normally a short story has only one or two main characters.

 

6)   A short story often addresses a moral issue or central theme.  The issue or theme is often ambiguous and designed to provoke thought and debate.

 

7)   A short story ends abruptly.

 

 

Read aloud

 

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