English 12

Block 4:

On Wednesday, your justice paragraphs, your ten vocabulary words, and your personal timelines are due.

Block 7:

On Tuesday, your personal timelines and your ten vocabulary words are due.

A digital copy of the play we are studying can be found here.

Socials 10

Complete the crossword puzzle for Wednesday.  If you missed class today, find me for the sheets.

English 10

Today, we read "The Inheritor" by Frank Roberts.  I assigned questions 1, 2, 3, and 6.  You can access a copy of this story at the following address:

msgerrard.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/7/23677146/the_inheritor.pdf

Block 1 needs to look up The Battle of Lone Pine and Jason and the Golden Fleece.  I'll ask you to explain both briefly next class.

Socials 10

On Tuesday, students will come to class ready to write six paragraphs on the different readings on the Northwest Rebellion from the textbook.  Being prepared means that each student will have prepared six cartoons consisting of a visual which explains each reading.  These cartoons will be brought in on a 11"x14" sheet of paper.  In class, the students will use the cartoons to compose their paragraphs.

The six sections of the textbook are as follows:
1.  Introduction--paragraphs 1,2,3, and 4 from pg. 192-193
2.  Louis Riel Returns --paragraphs 1 and 2 from page 193
3.  Louis Riel Returns --paragraphs 3,4,and 5 from pg. 194- 195
4.  Louis Riel Returns --paragraphs 6 and 7 from pages 194-195
5.  Louis Riel Returns --paragraphs 8 and 9 from page 195
6.  Louis Riel Returns --paragraphs 10, 11, and 12 from pages 195-197

Your cartoons will be displayed, so marks will be given for clarity, fine-lining and colour.
This is a major IB project, and will be marked according to the Communicating and Knowledge and Understanding rubrics.

English 12, Block 7

Your personal response paragraphs on the topic of justice are due on Tuesday, April 25th.

English 12, Block 7

Hello Grade 12s!

As promised, here is the breakdown for the Poetry Stand Alone Text that's due on FRIDAY.

1) Choose a poem or song (or use "Prelude to Jumping in the River").

2) Do a SPITS analysis of your poem/ song.

3) Write a stand alone text with the following purpose: To explain the theme of the poem/ song and how it's presented to the reader through poetic devices/ techniques (eg. imagery, symbolism, tone).

Remember: On your Provincial Exam, they are expecting about 150 words- this is roughly a paragraph. Use textual evidence to support your claims. This assignment is not about discussing theme; it's about analyzing the theme of the poem and how the poetic devices discussed in class/ discovered in your reading of the poem present this theme.

If you need an example, Google Search: "grade 12 provincial exam bc english stand alone text" - they provide you with examples and samples of student responses, along with their mark. But NOTE: I have access to these too- I don't want to see you write a stand alone text on a poem found on a previous Provincial (with the exception of "Prelude to Jumping on the River").

Examples of themes found in poetry: Anger, Revenge, War, Death, Friendship, Family...

- Ms. Lambert

English 12, Block 4

Hello English 12!

Just a reminder that your Sociograms and Chapter Questions for the "Catcher" unit are due (NOTE: if you hand in your Chapter Questions as one large group, the marks will be split amongst you- it is recommended that you complete your work as assigned; on your own). Also, if you haven't finished your Synthesis Essays, you need to come and see me immediately!

Homework for next class (April 9th): Analyze "Prelude to Jumping in the River" using SPITS (Note: We have already done "T" for technique as a class). Start reviewing for your Poetry Analysis Quiz next week (April 13th- MONDAY).

English 12, Block 7

Hello English 12!

Just a reminder that your Poetry Analysis Quiz is this week (Wednesday, April 8th). Brush up on your poetic devices/ techniques, and know how to analyze using SPITS!

Also, if you haven't finished your Synthesis Essays for the "Catcher" unit, please come and find me- I have finished marking most of the class!

English 10

Hello English 10!

Just a reminder that you should be constantly adding to your Sociograms and working on your IB Romeo and Juliet project (the 3 quotes for each Act). Also, remember to come to class prepared to work in your groups on the assigned scenes from Act 3- we will be presenting them in the second half of the class. If you need a good resource, check out "No Fear Shakespeare" for Romeo and Juliet- it modernizes the language for you!

If you haven't handed in chapter questions and novels for Mockingbird, I am still accepting them!

English 10, Blocks 1 and 2

BLOCKs 1&2 (Grade 10):
Hello! Ms. Lambert here! Just wanted to send you a reminder that by Tuesday, you should have 1 quote for the following aspects of Act 1 (along with an explanation of their significance/ why you chose them): Character, Theme, one of your Preference.
Also, if you have yet to hand in chapter questions, visual journals, or your Mockingbird novel, please bring those to class on Tuesday.

English 12, Blocks 4 and 7

BLOCK 4 (Grade 12):
This is just a reminder that your sociograms and chapter questions for The Catcher in the Rye should be handed in by Tuesday. And homework from last class: Using SPITS, analyse one of the 6 poems we looked at in class.

BLOCK 7 (Grade 12):
If you have yet to hand in your sociograms and chapter questions for The Catcher in the Rye unit, they should be handed in by Monday. Homework from Thursday's class: Study (and familiarize yourself with) the poetic devices learned in class for the Poetry Analysis Quiz on Monday.

For my BLOCK 4 and 7 Grade 12 students:
-- If you have not finished your synthesis essays, or written your test for The Catcher in the Rye, please come and speak to me. I will be in C203 most lunches and after school, or in the teacher prep room at the back of the library if you can't find me in C203. These should be completed as soon as possible!

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For those of you who were given the opportunity to refine your Catcher in the Rye quotation assignment for Ms. Lambert, here are the quotations.  Remember to work on the quotation that you originally selected.

Below are three (3) quotes from The Catcher in the Rye. You are to choose one (1) of them, and write a response to the quote answering the following question:

• What is the significance of this quote? (Think about the context of the book and Holden as a character- his beliefs, behaviours, opinions, etc)

You are to use textual evidence to support the argument in your response. Your response should be no shorter than 1 page, and no longer than 2. You are allowed to use first person point of view-- in fact, I would really appreciate your personal connection to the quote, and to the argument about it’s significance in regards to the novel.

This will be marked out of 15 (5 marks for analysis, 5 marks for use of textual evidence, and 5 marks for personal response).

Here is the first set of three quotation (given just 

before Spring Break). 

Choose one of the following quotations:

1. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, except me.  and I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.  What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't' look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.  That's all I'd do all day.  I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.  I know its' cray , but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.  I know its crazy" (p.173).  
     
2. "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.  Nobody'd move.  You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished carching those two fish....Nobody'd be different.  The only thing that would be different would be you.  Not that you'd be so much older this time or anything.  It wouldn't be that, exactly.  You'd just be different, that's all" (p.121).  
                   
3.  "I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.  It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes" (p.62).

 Here is the second set of three quotation (given just after Spring Break):

Choose one (1) of the following three (3) quotes:

1.    “Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them- if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful, reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry,” (p. 189).

2.    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one,” (p. 188)

3.    “I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they’d have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They’d get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I’d be through with having conversations for the rest of my life,” (p. 198)