July 3rd, 2023

Welcome to class.

First, I would like you to informally jot some answers to these questions down about what it is you would like out of class by following these questions:

  1. What are my plans for post-secondary? To what end will these plans meet?
  2. What do you expect out of this class this semester? – This is an important question because each grade 12 class I’ve designed is tweaked for each dynamic. No class is fully the same.
  3. What is a memory of school (K-12) I am proud of?

Here is the syllabus for the class. Spend some time looking over it with a partner and pose any questions to me regarding the class. Each pair should come up with one or two questions.

Syllabus-English-12-2024

https://www.signupgenius.com/groups/getting-to-know-you-questions.cfm

  1. Brainstorm with class on questions
  2. Find someone you don’t know
  3. Ask 10 of the questions from the board – answer them – Vice versa
  4. 1st assignment – non-fiction narrative of the person (Pre-assessment / no rubric)
  5. Get ready to present your narrative to the class.

IF WE CAN START:

I would like to introduce you to annotated bibliographies. These are integral for research purposes. I am introducing them earlier on, just because everything we read together will be logged so that you have a bookmark to refer.

Let me introduce what an annotated bibliography is first.

Then we will read a piece by a smart thinker. We will discuss this piece, then you will complete an annotated bibliography on this fella. This will be your first assignment.

Here is the lecture:

Annotated Bibliography 2022

The written piece that we will be discussing is in the following PDF:

Loss of the Creature

You will be answering these questions (written as sentence stems):

Part 1 (Summary)

1.The main idea of this article is…….

2.The topics covered in this article are…….

3.The author’s point of view in this article is……

Part 2 (Rhetoric)

1.The author of this piece is/is not credible because……

2.The author knows a lot about this topic because….

3.From this piece, the author wants you to………….

Part 3 (Reflection)

1.This article supports my ideas because…..

2.This article was helpful to me because….

3.This article added to my knowledge about this topic because….