English 10

The answers for the package containing the news story ("Lawrence Lemieux Lifesaver") and the story ("Raymond's Run") are as follows:

News story:
D, A, C, A, C, B, C, D, D

Story:
B, B, C, C, B, A, D, D, C

English Lit

People coming to Bard on the Beach, please be at the box office at Vanier Park (by the tents) at 6:45 tomorrow evening.  The address is 1695 Whyte Avenue, Vancouver.

If you are taking transit, take a bus downtown.  Then, take a #2 or #22 bus from downtown that will take you to bus stop # 50101 (Cornwall Avenue and Cypress Street).  Walk north (towards the mountains) on Cypress Street to Whyte Avenue, turn right and walk all the way to the tents where Bard is located.

English Lit

Today, we discussed "The Darkling Thrush" and "My Last Duchess".  Tomorrow, we'll finish discussing "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight".  Also, look over "The Hollow Men".
The themes the class chose for Thursday's fishbowls are HEROISM, RELIGION, and NATURE.  People were put into groups, if you don't have a group, you'll be assigned one tomorrow.

English 10

Tonight, review your vocabulary words and complete the questions on the poem "Boy with His Hair Cut Short".  Finally, come to class with an idea of what to write for your narrative composition.  The prompts (from which you will chose one) are as follows:
1. Certain moments cause us to grow.
2. With independence comes responsibility.
3. A painful/intense moment

English Lit

Today, we finished discussing Ulysses.  Then, students got into groups to read/discuss "Sonnet 43", "Song", "The Darkling Thrush", and "My Last Duchess".  We discussed the first two and will completed the second two after your presentations. 
The sight poem I've been talking about will be given to you on Monday. 
All students should have notes on these 4 poems for study purposes.  If that means write your own question/quote, fine.  If not, jot down notes on today's discussion.

English 10

No specific homework, but you should be reviewing your vocabulary words for next Tuesday's quiz.  The words are as follows:

1. augment (verb):  to make greater or supplement
2. boisterous (adj): rowdy and rough
3. valiant (adj): courageous
4. pernicious (adj): very harmful and destructive
5. portentous (adj): dealing with a sign, omen, or forewarning
6. posterity (noun): future generations
7. profane (adj): showing contempt toward sacred things
8. choler (noun): anger or irritability
9. virtuous (adj): having excellent morals; righteous
10. prodigious (adj): extraordinary; marvelous
11. gape (n or v): a wide opening; to be or become wide open
12. feign (v): to pretend
13. baleful (adj): destructive; deadly
14. wanton (adj): immoral; lewd
15. poultice (n): remedy; a soft, medicated mass of material applied to the body to relieve aches, inflammation, or congestion
16. unwieldy (adj): clumsy; difficult to carry because of bulk or weight
17. sallow (adj): a sickly, yellowish hue
18. peril (n): danger
19. repose (n or v): rest or relaxation; to rest
20. blazon (v): to announce or proclaim
21. ascend (v): to move upward
22. beguile (v): to deceive or mislead
23. calamity (n): a serious event causing misfortune
24. asunder (adverb): into separate parts or pieces
25. jocund (adj): cheerful; merry
26. prostrate (v): to bow or kneel down in humility or adoration
27. abhor (v): to hate or shun
28. effeminate (adj): unmanly; having the (weak) characteristics of a woman
29. adversity (n): a state of hardship or misfortune
30. gallant (adj): heroic; brave; chivalrous

I did give you more words, but you only need to know these for Tuesday's vocab quiz.

English Lit

For Friday, finish the reading on the Victorian Era (pp. 613-619).  Pay special attention to the section on Victorian poetry.  Also, read the following poems:
1. Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" p. 653
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43" p. 669
3. Emily Bronte's "Song" p. 672
4. Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" p. 640

English 10

Tonight, finish the cell phone assignment.  Also read the poems in the package, star the 5 you have the strongest emotional response to, and then write an open-ended question on each of the 5.  You don't have to provide an answer, just come to class with your questions tomorrow.

English Lit

Tonight, do the following:
1. state what is happening in your assigned stanza for "Ode to a Nightingale"
2. pick a quote and literary device from "When I Have Fears"
3. Do question #1 from the "Study and Discussion Questions on "When I Have Fears" on page 560.

Your final exam on June 17 will include the following:

• 3 quotes identify author, title and significance of quote in context to the work as a whole (15) 
• 3 quotes identify the literary technique used and show how it’s unique to either the literary time period or the author (15) 
• A sight-reading passage—a poem you have not encountered from a period we have studied with three 5 mark questions (15) 
• A paragraph on a specific time period (10 marks).  You’ll be asked a question on a time period (you’ll be given 2 questions to choose from) 
• Short essay (3 paragraphs) on one of the themes of the course (we’ll have a fishbowl)…You’ll guess the themes (30) 
• 5 mark question for which you cannot really prepare 

English 10

Tonight, Period 3 should complete the Act III study guide and do the first 7 questions on the blue poetic devices sheet.  Period 2 should do the blue poetic devices sheet.

Both classes will have a quest (quiz/test) on the first three acts of Romeo and Juliet on Wednesday.  Here is the make up of the test:

• 15 fill in the blank questions (character identification)
• 5 multiple choice questions
• 5 quotes where you must identify the speaker and the context of the quote.

Also,

Your final exam on Tuesday, June 18 (Period 2) and Wednesday, June 19 (Period 3) will consist of the following:

• a poem with 10 multiple choice (m/c) questions
• a news article with 10 m/c questions
• a story you've never read and 10 m/c questions
• a multi-paragraph composition (3-5 paragraphs in length).