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Introducing the ISU

 

Independent Study Unit (Course Summative)

Let’s review the package. Annotate the package as I go through it. It’s in its first iteration, so if there are errors or confusing parts let me know.

Update your planner with the due dates.

 

 

Go to TEAMS and complete the ANTICIPATION GUIDE on the sub-genres of utopia and dystopia.

Finally, share your thinking about this sub-genre. 

Many of you blogged about the popularity of this sub-genre in post 2. For this post, I want you to make connections to the world you live in. Move past generalizations, and speak specifically about one or more distortions you see in our society.

What does the popularity of modern dystopian fiction tell us about the preoccupations of our society? 

Which of the following themes do you see at work in our society? Choose one. Be specific. Provide your thinking on what might go wrong; that is, what an unintended consequence might be of any of the following ideas. What are we being warned about?

  1. The growth of surveillance, government control and industrialization
  2. The downside of human intervention in health and genetics
  3. The perils of misinformation
  4. The lack of choice and individuality 

Pre-mid-Term report Conferences

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Course Summative: Blog Post #4

Evidence of Learning document due: Tuesday, January 16th no later than 11:59:59

The deadline tonight is about stopping the process of adding new tasks to the document. We need to do this for 2 reasons:
 
  1. The course summative will start tomorrow;
  2. There needs to be time for me to review the documents and respond to them so that students can appropriately assess. This means that if by midnight a student as 15 boxes in the document completed, the student can revise any of those 15 based on my feedback. This is t true for the student who as 8 boxes filled. What students cannot do is to continue to add new tasks past the deadline. There simply isn’t the time for me to go into students documents again and again. 
Tomorrow, I will go into the document. I will make suggestions where needed (where it impacts a mark) and I will give the student a new deadline. I will go in after that deadline for the last time to confirm the mark. 

Course summative is a showcase portfolio. Before I introduce the whole project, you need to finish all four blog posts and revise them according to my feedback.

Grade 11 and 12 students are considering the best literary perspective for their novels and blogging on that topic.

Make sure you are using both the conventions of a literary analysis and of a blog post.

Grade 10s will consider the themes of their novels for their last post.