ENGLISH 12 PROVINCIAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17TH AT 1:00 P.M. BE THERE EARLY. DON'T FORGET TO HAND IN YOUR RESEARCH PAPER!

Hello English 12!! Is anyone out there? I feel like I am typing into a vaccuum...
Anyway, here we go into Poetry, Short Stories, and essay formats. How's that for mix-and-match? We are also working on some Greek mythology. You have to be able to pick out those classical allusions in your reading of the future.
Project for next week: Find a short story and a complementary poem and present them to the class. Don't forget to check out all your poetic terms. There are lots to play with!
Hope you have fun with this!

Report cards out next Friday...all assignments in by now!
Short stories and poetry to follow...you will be teaching it to each other!
Two months to Grad, people! You should be studying terms, types of essays, synthesizing, comparing and contrasting, narrative essay writing.
Check out the Ministry website: www.bced.gov.bc.ca for practice exams.

Coming to an end of our study of The Crucible...make sure your essay is done for Friday. Be prepared to start Provincial exam study on Monday--essay writing, reading, responding.

The Crucible Creative projects: TBA
We will be writing a literary essay on this topic.
Documentary film for Thursday on witches, wicca, witchcraft.

1984

Keep reading 1984! Final test March 27th
Project work next week. Decide what you would like to work on, and talk to me about ideas for you to create your own project.

Students who missed quiz--see me.

Get your short stories in!! 360 words maximum for short story contest entries.

1984 on Monday! Make sure your newspapers are done, so that we can see what would be censored in a totalitarian society! Probably everything that you have written!

NEW CLASS February 2009 Media Literacy

Welcome to English 12, one and all! We are starting our search for enlightement and enrichment with a look at ancient literature--Beowulf, read in Old English by Yours Truly; Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, read in Middle English by Y.T.; and finally, the first paragraph of Melville's Moby Dick, read also by Y.T. A quick scan of how the English language evolved, and we're on to What Makes the News! We looked at what is in the newspaper, what types of articles catch our interest, and what the author's purpose is.

Your homework is to create a mini newspaper or magazine with your own slant or bias! What is important to you? What is your purpose? To inform, persuade, satirize, etc. We will be looking at
another medium very soon--television and film. That will take us into the wild world of Orwell and totalitarian control through the use of language and mass media.

See you Monday!

Two weeks left and counting...
Don't forget, Monday Poetry quiz. This will be practice for the Provincial...

Block A, please read Act II of Hamlet on your own, so we can whiz through it on Tuesday...since we lost a day last week, you need to do it on your own.

Also, don't forget to fill in your TERMS AND DEVICES sheet--very important for exam.

See you tomorrow...

Happy New Year, Everybody!!

Three weeks left until the Provincial exam. You can access old exams on the provincial website. You can also access writing samples for each of the sections of the exam. We will be working on the preparation for the exam during the next three weeks.

Poetry quiz on Monday--know your terms!!

Mock Provincial test--not optional! This will help you time yourself for the 3-hour exam.

We will be reading Hamlet as well. Hopefully, you will learn something about the human condition from the melancholy Dane himself.

Happy reading and writing!!