Check out this awesome article in The New York Times about the process of creating a joke. This is the elastic, creative mind at work. What can we each do to get here?
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For Monday, please read through the “Sentence Pattern 2″ section of the grammar book and plan your essay revision. Additionally, study the rest of the persuasion vocabulary for a final quiz next Friday, November 18. We will have a comprehensive test on these vocabulary words on December 9. . . . → Read More: Homework: IB L&L – Three Things for Next Week Compare the feedback on your essay to your own metacognitive analysis – what did you see that I missed, what did I see that you missed, and where did we agree? Plan a revision with one clear, specific goal for revision based on rubric and provide an action plan – what specifically will you do? . . . → Read More: Homework – IB L&L – Revision Plan for Analytic Essay Please follow the directions on the document below to “metacognitively” process your essay. Metacognition is just thinking about our thinking, and that’s what we’re going to do here. This is something we will always do in one form or another with longer works. This should be shared with me in the Unit 2 Shared Inbox . . . → Read More: Homework: IB L&L – Metacognitive Writing Please excuse the less than perfect audio, but this video should prove helpful to those of you braving the podcast project for our Into Thin Air oral activity. Feedback on the video is welcomed.
The notes from our work on writing a specific and powerful definition-style thesis that makes a specific claim are in our Google Docs shared collection for Unit 2 Notes. They may also be found linked below. Writing a Specific, Powerful Thesis Claim with Keywords Unit 2 Eng 10 Summative Oral Activity Introductory Podcast Please listen to the podcast above (just press the play triangle) and read the Google Doc handout in the Handouts collection for directions and a rubric for your final summative assessment for the Nonfiction Unit based on Into Thin Air. We will discuss this in class, as . . . → Read More: Assessment: English 10 G & H – Into Thin Air Nonfiction Unit Final Assessment Please keep working on the revision of your essay – we will have 20 minutes in each of the next two class periods to revise and the essay will be due at the beginning of class on Friday. Additionally, have a look at the first ten words of the Language of Persuasion handout found in . . . → Read More: Homework/Classwork: IB L&L – Vocabulary & Revision Let’s build on your recent, successful paragraphs with a good essay written in class over the next two class periods. Mr. Friesen will be in class with you, and he is a good resource for you on writing and building an analysis from your reading. If you would like additional instruction, please see the three . . . → Read More: Classwork: IB L&L HL – Process Essay on The Psychopath Test Here is a video lecture about organizing an essay response to text and revising a thesis appropriately as ideas evolve. This video is the third of three on essential academic essay skills. Please leave any feedback as a comment.
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