unit 4

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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Final Literature Circle on your CanadaReads novel is Friday. Tomorrow you will have time to create your questions and complete your Reader’s Journals.

Reader’s Journal Reminders:

  1. Include detail. Your journal should demonstrate your understanding of the text. If you leave out key details, I don’t know that you read or understood it.
  2. Comment on more than characterization. Have a look at your handout for more ideas to focus on, but look at word choice, imagery, symbolism, etc.
  3. If something strikes you as odd or somehow disconnected, make note of it. Ask questions. Think through why it seems odd or out of place. It’s not just filler.
  4. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. I’m not looking for “the right answer” here. I’m looking for your thought process. I mean it.
  5. Make connections. What does this remind you of? What is it different than? (that’s a connection too)
  6. When you make an observation, discuss the possible significance of that observation. Draw conclusions.
  7. Have a look at the marking scheme before submitting and make sure you’ve met the expectations.

 

Today, we will take up the questions for “April Fools on Polar Circus”, and you will work on your narrative outline.

Submit it and the essay analysis via the assignment submission page.

 

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Monday, May 16, 2016

Learning Goals
By the end of this activity you will be able to:
Demonstrate that you have begun learning the ways the essay reveals perspectives, ideas, experiences, and beliefs of a writer.

Success Criteria
I know I am successful when:
I can identify the features of a narrative essay;
I can identify audience and purpose of a narrative essay;
I can create an essay outline for a narrative essay;
I can read for the purpose of analysing the features of a text
I can identify the perspectives, ideas, experiences, and beliefs in a text.

We’re going to be looking at the Narrative Essay today.

First, I’ve got a handout for you outlining how to analyze an essay. Then I have a note for you to take down on the Narrative Essay.

Next, I’d like you to consider the following statements. What are the pros and cons of using these as “words to live by”?

1) Learning to accept fear, to take it in without letting it take over, is one of life’s challenges.

2) Learn to welcome fear and the edge it brings, the whispered warnings and the adrenaline.

Next, you will read the narrative essay “April Fools on Polar Circus”. You’ll complete an analysis of the essay and have a few questions to answer.

Remember: Your homework is to read your novel and work on your reader’s journals. You will be conducting a second and final, literature circle meeting on your novel on Wednesday.

Notes/handouts for today:

April Fools on Polar Circus essay

The Personal Narrative Essay

April Fools on Polar Circus questions

How to Analyse an Essay