Greetings...

Hello Grads! Well, your final year of writing essays, poems, short stories, articles, representing and presenting, adapting and gathering and gleaning for your patient teachers!! Well, it is your final year if you decide not to go further in the Humanities, which I could not fathom...however, so it goes.

Week One: We started with writing a sample provincial exam to see how you sit right now in your interpretation of text and creative writing. I must say, not bad for the day after summer is over! We will be continuing to work on the provincial practice, and you have the choice of sitting the November exam. If you do well, you can keep that mark, and if you do not like the results, you have a choice to do it over again in January.

This week and next, be prepared to study several short stories. This should give you lots of practice in how to deconstruct text to help construe meaning. You become involved in the process of making meaning simply by bringing your own previous knowledge to the text, discussing it with others, who will bring their experiences to the text, and before you know it, you have discovered perhaps not THE answer, but an answer to the meaning of the story, getting you closer to answering the great questions of life.