Eng 12 HW

1. Book deposits for tomorrow
2. Read "The Road Not Taken" for tomorrow
3. Read "The Dumka"
http://disruptivejuxtaposition.blogspot.com/2006/09/rj-dumka-by-bh-fairchild.html

4. Read "Regret" for Thursday. Make notes for the Group Questions

Eng 12 Themes

Themes:

1. Regret

2. Flying and Freedom

3. Women and Work

4. Solitude and Loneliness

5. Leaving Home

6. Revenge

7. Love

8. Myth and Magic

Eng12 First day notes

Hi!

EF3/4 First day greetings!

Sentences - good quality sentences in English

How confident are you in your writing in English?

3 Sentence types:
SIMPLE

COMPOUND

COMPLEX

Foundation of all writing in English - simple, compound, complex

Paragraph writing- short story, poem, news articles

Reading everyday- newspaper (The Province, The Courier, 24 Hours, Metro), novel, kids books, young adult (teenager), signs, documents, magazines (cooking, sports, hiking, cycling, fashion, swimming, car, music, guns, health, fitness, bodybuilding)

Read for enjoyment.

VPL - Vancouver Public Library
Get a card!



Some people are readers.


ice-breaker- social situation, party
- business conference, meeting

feeling? nervous, awkward, bored, depressed, 

a way to lighten the mood, express yourself, meet people

EF3/4 Last day review

SENTENCES!! Most important skill - write good sentences

SIMPLE
S+V
SS+V
S+VV
Questions? interrogative sentences
Imperative - command sentence

COMPOUND
S+V ,SOBA S+V     , FANBOYS

S+V ; S+V
S+V ; however, S+V
S+V ; therefore, S+V
S+V ; also, S+V


COMPLEX
adverb clauses
because, if, when, although, since, after, before, while

adjective clauses
who, that, which, whose, whom

noun clauses
that
She thinks that he is an honest man.
He believes that going to mosque is very important.


SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX !!



VERBS/ VERB FORMS

want to go

like to go/ like going love hate prefer



modals - can, could, should, have to

causative verbs - I make you clean your room.

active and passive voice


PARAGRAPHS
narrative
process
descriptive
persuasive

SENTENCE COMBINING

SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

RUN-ON SENTENCES

E10 Business letters

Reasons to write Business letters:

(Even emails can benefit from using the more formal style of a business letter –sets a professional tone)

- interdepartmental letters (within a company)

- cover letter for a resume (special style)

- application letters to colleges and universities

- letter to a government agency, Canadian government or another country (e.g. CRA, immigration, pension, City Hall)

- employer (e.g. promotion, transfer, raise, personal leave, quit)

- business person

- court (e.g. jury duty)

- lawyer

- report to a supervisor

-incident report (e.g to police or an authority)

FORMAL, not casual like a personal letter

Formal – organized (structure), official, appropriate tone, appropriate language, unemotional

·       Distribute “BUSINESS LETTERS” (pp140-141)

666 Your Street

Vancouver, BC

V5P2B6

November 1, 2018

Joe Chan

Director, Shaw Communications

123 Cordova Street

Vancouver, BC

V5K2D2

Re: Reference # 4722859   (Re- regarding)

Robin Smith

Hui Yu Chen Mr? Mrs?

Dear Grandma,

Sarah Chen

Dear Mr. Chen:

Dear Mrs. Smith:

Dear Ms. Smith:

Dear Miss Smith:

Dear Mme Benoit:

To Mr. Chan: sounds cold

To Sarah Chen:

Dear Sarah:   colon is formal, first name is casual

NOT AS GOOD- impersonal

Dear Sir or Madam,

To whom it may concern, (reference letter)

To my dear former and current patients,

Dear Sir,

Dear Sir Chan

Dear Madam Smith,

Dear Teacher Haley,

Dear Teacher,

My Dear Teacher,

too submissive

Dear Professor Mahed,

honorific, title – Mr, Mrs, Professor, Doctor, teacher, President, Prime Minister, Vice-President, Chancellor, Father, Captain, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Officer, manager, Sheriff, Mayor, MP, MLA, Principal, Senator, Queen, King, Prince, Princess

NO INDENT

Thank for meeting with me yesterday to discuss…kjjh wlkefkwnfn wkejfnwjwen wlfjh fkjkwefnli fowief welfwe wefhw fkjehf wfhwjf wefhjw wefkjwhkwkjweh fkwhfkw wkfkwjehf wekjhwefkw efkwjehfkjwe wefkjwehkw wekfjwhfw fekwjehfw fwkjfhkw wekjhwef wkwjhfkjw wkejfhwekfh wefkjwhf wkefjhwek wkfjwhef wefkwefn.

SKIP A LINE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS

Ghhd dhdhdh dhddj d jdjdjd  djdjdjd  djdjdjd djdjdj.

Yours truly,

Yours,

Sincerely,

Yours sincerely,

Best regards,

Regards,

Respectfully, (talking to someone higher in the business than you)

Kind regards,

Thank you,

PERSONAL

Sincerely yours,

Yours sincerely,

Faithfully,

SCENARIO:

Write a short business letter to Robin Smith at Shaw Communications, thanking her for interviewing you yesterday for the position of installer/ manager/ technician/ CEO/ sales associate.

associate = salesperson

·       Show pics “Business letters1,2,3”

·       “Writing Letters of Complaint”

Yelp review

speak directly to business, seeking resolution

·       “Writing Advocacy Letters”

-advocate- to speak up for some cause that you believe in

EF3/4 Academic paragraph

"Roses Sing on New Snow"

"Why did Maylin argue with the governor?"

PROCESS
Prewriting
1. Analyze the question
What is the question asking us to do?
2. Generate ideas
a. 
b. 
c. 

3. Put them in order

Writing
4. Rough copy

Grabber- 
Topic sentence- address the question

Q: "Why did Maylin argue with the governor?"

TS: Maylin argued with the governor for three/two reasons.
TS: Maylin argued with the governor because she knew he couldn't take the recipe back to China.
TS: Maylin had an argument with the governor because he didn't understand about food.
TS: Maylin argued with the governor because he threatened her family.


Make sure that you are on-topic. Address the question that is asked. Don't write a plot summary; don't retell the story.

academic writing - school writing

analyzing - thinking deeply about something, finding reasons, making connections, making arguments (persuading)


TS: Maylin argued with the governor because he was asking her to do something that was impossible- to teach him to cook the food the same as her.
1. ML cooked every day, governor didn't have the skill
2. Maylin cooked with her heart, emotion- governor didn't have the same emotion about cooking
3. ML is a woman from the New World- governor us from the old world- different culture, different food
4. ingredients are a little different, water different


"I" think