Wednesday, 8 April 2026

P2 EF710 Class 34

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Presentations 2

·      Continue sentence combining work

Quiz3 Friday

·      Animal Farm Chapter Finish Ch 7, do Ch 8

·      Begin essay work

“The Bare Bones of the Five-Paragraph Essay”

“The Benefits of Cycling”

 

Thursday, April 9

·      Presentations 3

·      Animal Farm Chapter

·      Essay work

 

Friday, April 10

·      Presentations 4

·      Animal Farm Chapter

·      Quiz 3- sentence combining

 

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

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

-         uses all of the skills, structures that we have learned

-         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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