Monday Class

1. Get with a partner. One of you needs to read aloud the creative response to the other. Pause at each period. Check and fix any sentences that don't make sense!
2. Finish blog posts from Friday.
3. Work on ISU reading and tracking sheet.

Blogging Class Outline (Friday)

Class Outline

1. ISU reading
2. Blog post on characterization or plot structure (see the earlier post for options and details)
3. Finish blog post on an area of interest
4. Work on your creative response

Blogging: Characters and Plot

Blog Post Options

Please choose one of the following three options and write a blog post on it. Every blog post should include:

• a picture
• a title
• full sentences
• labels
• spell checked and proof read text

Blog Post Options (Choose 1 of the 3)

1. Profile one of you favourite characters from TV, literature, or videogames. Describe their character traits (personality) referencing at least one form of indirect characterization and saying how it is developed.
Example: 
Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice is a girl who is very intelligent, as often mentioned by her father. Unfortunately  Elizabeth is a very judgmental girl. She makes decisions and assumes to understand people based on first impressions. Jane Austin develops Lizzy's judgmental character through Lizzy's behaviour when she  decides early on the Mr. Darcy is her enemy and Mr. Wickham is completely agreeable. When Mr. Darcy proposes to her, Lizzy cruelly rejects him.  In fact, Mr. Darcy turns out to be a caring person and Mr. Wickham is a scoundrel. 

2. Read a short story online (or recall a story you have read or viewed and enjoyed). Summarize the plot by saying what was the exposition, a few points from the rising action, what was the climax, and what was the falling action and/or denouement.
Example:
In the book the The Cat in the Hat the story starts with the exposition where the kids are home alone on a rainy day in the cat arrives. The rising action is when the cat plays games that cause a mess like “UP-UP-UP with a fish” and “FUN-IN-A-BOX.”  Fish says cat is causing a mess and says to him, “You should not be here / When our mother is not.” Then, Thing One and Thing Two fly kites in the house and  the Fish warns, “Your mother is on her way home!” The climax happens when the narrator catches Thing One and Thing Two with a net and says to the 
cat, “Now you pack up those Things / And you take them away!” The falling action is when the cat packs up Thing One and Thing Two then leaves. The cat returns and cleans up the mess saying, “I always pick up all my playthings.” The resolution is when the mother returns from shopping and asks the children, “Did you have any fun?” (from Read, Write, Think)

3. Write a narrative paragraph where you create a character. Describe your character using direct and indirect characterization. At the end, show where you had the direct and indirect characterization.

Example
"She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times around her waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips."

Direct: bold-looking girl, athletic movements

Indirect: "emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times around her waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips" this is irony. It shows that she seems to be following the rules but she is a rebel. 

(This example is from  George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four 12 please write your own character).

Media Lesson 10 and 11

Lesson 10 Class Outline (Monday):
This is a shortened block due to the assembly.

1. Silent Reading
2. Go to Lab 2103
3. Blogging:
1. Ensure you have a working blog and have added Beth as an author to it.
2. Copy and paste our finalized Blogging and Internet Safety Guidelines onto your blog as a page. Pages are different from post because they never change position on your blog.
1. You can find the guidelines as a page on Beth's blog (at the top).
2. Create a page by clicking out your Blog's name from your Blogger login screen.
3. Click on "Pages" on the dashboard that is on the left hand side of your screen.
4. Click on "New Page" in the centre of your screen, and choose "Blank Page."
5. Insert the class created guidelines and save your page. 
6. By creating this page with the guidelines, you are agreeing to follow them
3. Work on your ISU 1/3 tracking sheet.
4. If you are worried about forgetting your email address, please email me at mwilcox@sd57.bc.ca so I will have a record of it.

Lesson 11 Class Outline (Tuesday):

1. Silent reading for ISU (1/3 tracking sheet due TOMORROW)
2. Go to computer lab with:
•  your silent reading book, 
• media analysis, and 
• tracking sheet. 
3. Media Analysis:
1. Type your Media Analysis assignment as a blog post. 
2. Add labels on the right hand side. Labels are categories that organize your blog posts. Some labels for this post might be "Class Assignments, Media Analysis, Rip! A Remix Manifesto, Bias." By adding labels your readers can read your blog by subject area and you can find things easier. 
3. Check your spelling from the menu underneath the post title. 
4. Write your name on Beth's list to say you are done adding your media analysis. I will mark your typed version. 
4. Post of Interest:
1. Create a post on 1 thing that you are interested in. You must include:
1. A descriptive title
2. Full sentences
3. At least 2 labels
4. An image
5. A URL link. Bonus: try to get your link to open in a new tab or window. 
5. ISU tracking sheet

Final English 11 Blog Rules and Internet Safety

English 11 Blog Rules and Internet Safety

1.       Ask permission before using other people’s personal information/photos

2.       No inappropriate content (nudity, drug/alcohol references, cursing, racist content, discriminatory content, offensive terms, threats, violence, sexual content)

3.       Don’t give out personal information (credit card info, revealing photos, contact info, address, phone number)

4.       Never agree to meet strangers

5.       Make sure you set security information to level where you and your parents are comfortable

6.       No plagiarism. List where you got your info from

7.       Be respectful to other blogs

8.       Have an open mind