Thursday, 2 April 2026

P1 EF7/10/11 Class 32

 

- Medical Office Assistant program

- Newcomer Welcome Centre- free desktop computers available

 

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 7

·      Sentence combining work

·      Animal Farm Chapter 6

·      Check presentation progress (1pt)

·      Begin essay work

“The Bare Bones of the Five-Paragraph Essay”

“The Benefits of Cycling”

 

Friday, April 3

·      Statutory holiday

Good Friday

 

Monday, April 6

·      Statutory holiday

Easter Monday

 

Tuesday, April 7

·      Presentations 1

·      Animal Farm Chapter

·      Essay work

 

Wednesday, April 8

·      Presentations 2

·      Animal Farm Chapter

·      Essay work

 

Thursday, April 9

·      Presentations 3

·      Animal Farm Chapter

 

Friday, April 10

·      Presentations 4

·      Animal Farm

 

Final week- essay, movie

Monday, April 13

Tuesday, April 14

Wednesday, April 15

 

Thursday, April 16

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test

 

Friday, April 17- final day

·      One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments

 

Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.

 

 

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Sentence Combining

Exercises for “French Fries”

 

Two ways to look at sentence combining:

1.coordination- compound  , SOBA   ;   ; TRANS,

2.subordination- complex   adv cl   adj cl   n cl

 

 

 

 

 

4. Then they are lowered. kernel

Look for new information- avoid repetition

5. The lowering is slow.

6. The lowering is into oil.

 

We decide how we want to combine these:

Then they are lowered.

slow

into oil

simple? compound? complex?

 

Then slowly they are slowly lowered slowly into oil slowly.

 

789 Their hot bath crackles and foams.

Their bath, which is hot, crackles with foam.

 

CREATIVE: Their hot bath makes it crackle and foam.

 

The potatoes release a puff.

thinly-sliced

steam

The thinly-sliced potatoes release a puff of steam.

 

They come out crispy brown and streaked with oil.

 

 

Coffee

1.    He sips at his coffee cup which is chipped along the rim.

He sips at his coffee cup with a chip along the rim.

She nibbled on the cookie.

 

 

2.    The taste is bitter, acidic, and faintly soapy.

acidic- tastes like acid

adj, adj, and adj.   PARALLEL

She washed and rinsed the dishes.

He didn’t rinse all of the conditioner out of his hair.

My hair got damp in the rain.

6-8There is a brown film on the inside of his cup.

There is a brown film inside his cup.

His teeth were stained from smoking. His fingers were stained from cigarettes. His shirt was stained with red wine.

Coffee leeched into out teeth.

 

9-10 He takes extra care so that he doesn’t spill any on his clothes.

He takes extra care so that he doesn’t to not spill any on his clothes.

He takes extra care to not spill any on his clothes.

He takes extra care to avoid spilling any on his clothes.

 

11-12 He is afraid that it might eat holes in the material. funny

joke- the coffee is bad coffee- it might burn a hole in his clothes

 

material- the fabric of clothing: cotton, silk, wool, fur, polyester, nylon, fleece, leather,

 

 

“Sentence Combining Sheet 1”

1.    The object looks long. kernel

The object looks thin.

The object measures about eight inches in length.

simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

 

COMPOUND       The object looks long and thin, and it measures about eight inches in length.

 

SIMPLE The object looks thin and about eight inches in length.

The long object looks thin and about eight inches in length. like?

 

The object looks long, thin, and measures about eight inches in length. XXX

NOT PARALLEL long(adj) thin(adj) measures(v)

 

COMPLEX The object which/that looks long and thin measures about eight inches in length. adj cl

The object which/that measures about eight inches in length looks long and thin. adj cl

 

Try some for homework. We will go over them on Tuesday.

 

 

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Animal Farm Chapter 6

Crossword

admiration(n) admire(v)

commercial(adj)- business- buying and selling

compensate(v)- pay money that a person is owed

compensation(n)-salary, an amount of money that you are owed

ICBC compensation

sufficient- insufficient

 

Jack Ma lives an extravagant lifestyle.

My life is not extravagant.

 

invention- a new creation

 

invest(v) investment(n)- put money into a company or stocks to realize a profit

He invests $100 a month into RRSPs and TFSAs.

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l  Chapter 6 Notes

 

  “worked like slaves” (40)

  Napoleon announces voluntary work on Sunday or “rations reduced by half”

misusing words intentionally, confuse the animals who not able to understand how they are being tricked

  windmill, major challenge breaking stones

  “desperate slowness” (41), “slow, laborious process” “exhausting effort”

  Boxer powerhouse/horse, get up earlier, tireless

  animals naturally better at some tasks (e.g.weeding)

 

  Napoleon opens trade (hay, eggs), employs Mr. Whymper, broker on commission

animals uneasy, going back on resolutions. Principles

  dogs growl, sheep bleat to silence dissenters (43)

  Squealer spins, lies, reshapes animals memories

  rumours Napoleon doing business with Mr. Pilkington or Mr. Fredericks (45)

 

  pigs move into farmhouse, sleep in beds

  Fourth Commandment amended (45)

  Squealer spins word 'bed'

  raises specter of Mr. Jones

  pigs sleeping in (46)

 

  animals proud of windmill, focus of labours, except Benjamin

  Napoleon blames destruction of windmill on Snowball

  plant evidence- footprints, Napoleon “pronounced them to be Snowball's” (48)

scapegoat – someone who you can blame, not actually guilty or responsible

 

FREE ADVICE #14: If you want to know where the problem is, go look

                  in the mirror. Only you can fix it. Don’t blame

                  anyone else. Don’t rely on anyone else.

 

  Napoleon commits to rebuild windmill

  At this point in the novel, the rebellion has been lost. Napoleon has taken over as a dictator.

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