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discussion assessment for novel

Here’s the instructions/rubric for the discussions we’ll do tomorrow and Friday for Catcher.

Here’s the link for adding a video to our playlist. Please add a video from your culture/community – if possible, a holiday video! Just one each please. 

 

Hi class,

A couple notes about final essay submission.

You can submit to me over Google Docs. Make sure at the start of your essay you have included on the document:

Your full name

Your class (English 12, Period __)

The date (November 16, 2018)

An original title

Please make sure you include a bibliography for your synthesis essay in MLA style. THIS LIST IS NOT IN MLA STYLE. You also need to include any additional research sources you used. 

“On the Rainy River” and “The Things They Carried”, The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien, Houghton-Mifflin, New York NY, 1990

Muslim Girl, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Simon and Schuster, New York NY 2016

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Random House NY NY, 2015

“Invierno” – This is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz, Faber and Faber, London, England, 2012

“Theme for English B”, Langston Hughes,Selected Poems (Vintage Books,  New York, NY, 1959)

“How the worst moments on our lives make us who we are” – Andrew Solomon, TED, 2014  https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_how_the_worst_moments_in_our_lives_make_us_who_we_are?language=en

“Plight” – This Accident of Being Lost – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, House of Anansi, Toronto ON, 2017

 

Hi Class, 

Reminder about your quiz:

QUIZ – Next Week! Tuesday November 13

Cultural Orientations – Be able to define these orientations:

• Individualism/Collectivism
• Orientation to Time: Monochronic/Polychronic
• Orientation to Power: High power and low power distance (hierarchy)
• Communication (Direct/Indirect)

Bennett Scale – Be able to define these stages:

Denial, Polarization, Minimization, Acceptance, Adaptation

I will give you SCENARIOS and you will explain them using the culture orientations.

I will give you examples of PEOPLE and you will explain where they are on the Bennett scale. You could suggest things they could do to improve their cultural competency.

Here is a copy of our class powerpoint: The Bennett Scale of Intercultural Development

And here are some examples of people profiles: Intercultural development profiles

Hey Class,

To share your essay with me in Google Docs, click on the blue “Share” button in the top right corner. Then, type my email address into the top field. It is:

alison.atkinson@burnabyschools.ca   

(TIP – Copy-paste from here so that you don’t type it wrong)

Make sure that you use the drop-down menu to select “can comment”.

Then hit Send. 

I couldn’t figure out how to do a screenshot so please enjoy this photo I took of my computer screen:

I will work through the essays in the order I receive them. Early submissions are welcome! I am hoping to get through everything by mid-day Saturday. You’ll receive comments as soon as I make them – your Google Docs may be set up to email you automatically when I add comments, but if not, you can go ahead and check by Saturday.

Final drafts are due on Friday November 16. You can also submit your final essay by Google Docs. I don’t need a paper copy. 

Hi Class,

Here are some materials to help you with your reflection. 

Hofstede’s Country Comparison tool:  https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/

My powerpoint from class: Culture frameworks UPDATED

And the handout itself: Culture Orientation Reflection

Hello English 12,

Unfortunately, I’m not going to be teaching your Monday/Wednesday classes this week (but you will be in good hands). However, I am here and available outside of class time/via email all week. Here’s what will happen in my absence:

Monday – Period 3 will be in the library and Period 4 will be in computer lab B213. Depending on how much work you have already done, you may or may not be ready to start writing. Do NOT start writing without spending lots of time reading and re-reading your texts, taking notes, planning your question and area of focus, and outlining your essay. Ms Miller, your teacher today, is an English teacher and she can help you or check your work. And take advantage of your classmates who are further along in their understanding of the assignment!

Wednesday – You should be writing by now. Period 4 is in the computer lab again. Unfortunately, Period 3, I was not able to get you into the lab/library today. You can bring your own device to write with, draft on paper, or use the day as a study block to do homework for another class (meaning that you will have time to focus on your essay outside of school hours). A study block is NOT a free block – you need to make sure that those around you can work undistracted.

By Wednesday I will post info on how to share your Google Doc with me if that’s not something you know how to do. Remember, your best attempt needs to be in to me by Thursday midnight to get edits. 

Happy writing! 

Hi English 12!

Here are a whole bunch of attachments you may find useful as you plan your synthesis essay. There are PDFs of most of our texts, and the assignment sheet.

There is NOT a PDF of Theme for English B. It is easy to find online. Google it.

The date for Google Doc submission is Thursday November 8, midnight. This is a FIRM deadline. Anything I receive after this date will be marked as your final draft. First drafts do not need to be complete to receive feedback.

The Things They Carried

Plight

On the Rainy River

Muslim Girl

Invierno

Between the world and me

An Ounce of Cure

Understanding Identity synthesis essay – details

Synthesis planning – class handout including outline

Hello English 12! Today we read Alice Munro’s wonderful story “An Ounce of Cure”. Your homework is to expand your writing about a mistake you’ve made, and what you’ve learned – to try out a narrative writing genre, where we express what happened to us and then reflect on what it meant. 

Your homework writing can be a first draft, maybe 0.5 pages-1 page long. We’ll be working more with it later on – it doesn’t need to be complete or perfect, it’s just something down on the page to begin with. 

Hi everyone,

It’s already the end of September (or only the end of September, depending on your perspective). The school year is fully underway – I’ve learned most of your names, seen a few pieces of your work, and am getting to know you all as students. I’m really enjoying the conversations we’ve been having this year – I am lucky to be working with such a thoughtful, well-informed, and kind group of students. Here’s a bit of an update of where we’re at.

English 10 New Media: This class is about to be taken over by Ms. Niemann, who is finishing her teacher training at UBC. Ms Neimann has a wonderful unit planned that will get you to investigate identity, through your own project work and a variety of texts.

English 12: Ms Niemann will also be taking over English 12 Period 2, for a unit that explores narrative and identity through a wide range of texts. She’ll be here until late November.

Period 3 and 4 will keep working with me. We’re going to continue looking at short texts, through the lens of identity. Next week we’ll do a couple of stories from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, one of my all-time favourite books. 

Global and Intercultural Studies is beginning work on the project for the first phase of the class, Understanding Ourselves. The post below has project details. Once that’s done, we’ll Understand Others – easier said than done! 

English 10 First Peoples – We’re continuing to deepen our understanding of the lives and experiences of Indigenous people, and will be applying our knowledge as we read some more texts in the months ahead.