Today’s Agenda
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Attendance
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Presentations 2
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Continue sentence combining work
Quiz3 Friday
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Animal Farm Chapter Finish Ch 7, do Ch 8
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Begin essay work
“The Bare Bones of the Five-Paragraph
Essay”
“The Benefits of Cycling”
Thursday, April 9
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Presentations 3
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Animal Farm Chapter
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Essay work
Friday, April 10
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Presentations 4
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Animal Farm Chapter
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Quiz 3- sentence combining
Final week- essay, movie
Monday, April 13
Tuesday, April 14
Wednesday, April 15
Thursday, April 16
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Optional replacement quiz and/or test
Friday, April 17- final day
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One-on-one meetings, final marks and comments
Quarter 4 begins on Thursday, April 23rd.
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Sentence Combining
Sheet 1
Two approaches: coordination and/or
subordination
Essential skills
Sentence types: SIMPLE
COMPOUND COMPLEX COMPOUND-COMPLEX
Willian Strong- professor- sentence combining
#1 way to improve sentence writing
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uses all of the skills, structures that we have
learned
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gives you choice in your sentence writing
2. The object has many flat sides.
The object appears rounded. KERNEL
The object has a diameter.
The diameter measure about 1/8 inch.
1/8 one over eight one eighth
1/5 one fifth
3/5 three fifths
1/3 one third
¼ one quarter one
fourth
The object appears rounded, but it has many flat sides; the
object has a diameter that measures about 1/8 inch.
The object with a diameter that measures about 1/8 inch has
many flat sides but appears rounded.
The object with a diameter of about 1/8 inch which has many
flat sides appears rounded.
The object with a diameter of about 1/8 inch has many flat
sides but appears rounded.
The object has many flat sides, but it appears rounded
with about 1/8 inch diameter.
The object that has a diameter of about 1/8 inch has many
flat sides but appears rounded.
3. It comes in many colours outside and inside, but usually the
outside is yellow while the inside is greyish black.
It comes in many colours outside and inside, usually yellow and
greyish black, respectively.
She has a boy and a girl, three and five, respectively.
4. There is usually writing and a number such as a 2 or a
3 along the outside of the object.
5. The top of the object is made of rubber with an aluminum
band around it, and the bottom comes to a sharp point.
6.The body of the object appears to be made of wood, but the
inside is actually made of lead.
lead- Pb
graphite – pencil lead
7.The longer you use the object, the shorter and duller it
gets.
dull(adj)- not sharp, boring, not bright
8. The object is often used by students, artists, and office
workers.
The object is often used by students, artists and office
workers.
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Essay section
Essay work (EF5 level and above)
sentences—paragraphs—essays
– papers (college, university: 5, 10, 20 pages) – thesis/graduating essay-
graduating from degree (80-120 pages) – book (300-600 pages)- non-fiction,
fiction
apply to postsec-
essay
** sentences-
sentence types:
simple, compound,
complex, compound-complex
** GOOD SENTENCE
WRITING IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL WRITING
Building vocab,
word form, verb tense, verb form, preposition, phrasal verbs, punctuation, etc.
Developing
authentic(natural) phrasing
You picked a hard
road to walk down. You are brave and strong! We have to be.
Have hope and
vision and a target.
IDIOM Never say
never. Have resolve!
Do your homework.
IDIOM The sky is
the limit.
Work hard.
** paragraphs –
structure Grabber
Topic sentence
Supporting sentences,
Concluding
sentence
(150-200
words)
- format -
font size, doublespace, indent, paper orientation, name and class
** essay -multi-paragraph
writing, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 paragraphs on a topic
ENGLISH 12 EXAM Writing
prompt: “in essay form” “in paragraphs” “multi-paragraph” – means write an essay
“at least 300 words” the sweetspot, the Goldilocks zone (300-400ww)
“Goldilocks and the
Three Bears”- fairy tale, children tale
paragraph - at
least 150 words
essay – at least 300
words*
*You don’t have to
write a book. You just have to 3-5 short paragraphs.
We will focus on
the five-paragraph essay – basic model
-academic essay- good
for school
-3X5 essay
“essay”- French “to try” , try to explain something in full,
an attempt to describe a subject completely, an endeavour to explicate an idea
essay – an attempt to write a longer piece of writing that
covers a topic well
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Animal Farm Chapter 8 Discussion Notes
6th Commandment changed
“none cared to mention it” (61)
push to finish windmill
Squealer's quota reports, overinflated, lies
animals losing perspective on pre-revolutionary life
Napoleon increasingly withdrawn, elitist (62)
appears with dogs and rooster
formal grandiose titles (62)
Napoleon credited with every success
Napoleon song (63)
propaganda Snowball plot to murder Napoleon- guard dogs, taster
N. Korean TV anchor, Ri Chun Hee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7J2Nnl7Ano&app=desktop
N. Korean mourners, Kim Jong Il:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccsNr9UJeVY
Mr. Frederick vilified
more Snowball propaganda, gander false confession, suicide
MORE FALSE CONFESSIONS
Snowball not received “Animal Hero, First Class”
censured for cowardice
Squealer remakes animals' memories (65)
windmill finished, Napoleon Mill, foreshadowing “explosives would
lay them low this time” (66)
180 switch from Frederick to Pilkington- wood sold
all confusion blamed on Snowball (67)
wood “carted away at high speed”
counterfeit cash from wood to buy machinery for windmill-
animals prepare for attack from Frederick
guns, animals fall back, Pilkington message “Serves you right”
(69)
Benjamin sees men to blast windmill, destroyed
animals counter-attack, bloody melee, Napoleon in rear
Squealer (absent during fight) spins defeat (71)
Boxer wounded, weary
Napoleon awards to self “Order of Green Banner” (72)
whiskey, pigs drunk, hungover
sow field of barley (73)
Squealer caught changing Fifth Commandment
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