Song that Changed Your Life Topic

Here is the link to the actual contest: http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2013/01/call-for-submissions-the-songs-that-changed-your-life.html

In other words, write a 300-400 word narrative composition about a song that has had a huge impact on your life. It can be serious (maybe a song reminds you of a person, or a time in your life) or funny or anything in between.

Here is the marking composition guide used for the provincial exam: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade10/en/07_rubric.pdf (scroll down to the second page)

Suess and Rhyme, What a fun time!

CBC Books Dr. Suesstivas Challenge
See the tweets here: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23canadawrites&src=hash
See the rules here: http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/12/the-seusstivus-holiday-twitter-challenge-is-now-open.html

Find a Poem at Poetry in Voice
http://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems

Rock? Island? Ice?

1) Discuss: "I am a Rock" 

• Who is the speaker? What is he like? What does he believe? What is he scared of? Who is he speaking to?
• Where is he? How do you know?
• What is the tone of the lyric? Where do you get this from

Theme? Big Idea? Is he right?

Meditation xvii --- Simon was talking to Donne. The island!

2) Terms Review - slideshow. 

3) Connotation vs. Denotation - "Fire and Ice" p.121 

Poetry Beginnings

I'm so sad that I cannot be at school today. I'm sick getting sicker at the moment.

Anyway, I'm a complete geek when it comes to poetry. I love the stuff. I've been writing it since I was a little kid. I still write poetry. Some of it's pretty good. Most of it is mindbarf. It feels good to get it out but I'd never make anyone look at it. So, today while I am away I am going to give you a number of tasks to complete and send the results to me. I will be waiting at home for the results! (Told you I am a geek!)

Task #1 - In a group of 1-4 people, draw a mindmap/brainstorm in answer to this question:
                                                     What is Poetry? 
You can google stuff, draw stuff, list stuff, quote stuff - then put your answers down on paper, or on the chalkboard, take out your smart phones (or borrow an ipod from the back) and take a photo of it and email it to tara.colborne@sd71.bc.ca. Seriously. And, your "answer" should be detailed. Today. Get this done.

Task #2 - Watch these videos and based on what you see decide what your teacher thinks poetry is. Be prepared to discuss this tomorrow.










Task #3 - Finish up your Freedom Writer's Poem write it up or type it up on a separate piece of paper. Don't worry about right or wrong. Worry about heart and truth and beauty and language.

Vocabulary Quiz

Pick TEN of the following words and write a well-developed, engaging and grammatically correct sentence.

2 marks each - 1 for correct use of the word. 1 for the quality of the sentence (if it sounds/looks like a grade five student wrote it, it will score a zero...)

• predicament
• emphatic 
• apprehensively 
• sophisticated 
• admonitions
• incredulous 
• dissent  
• malicious 
• aggravated 
• undignified 
• unconscionable
• remorse 
• dissuade
• impasse
• disowned
• dilemma 

Rubrics for Utopia Project

- A map/drawing/series of images of your utopia is required - this must be made by students... not just an image of the internet. 20 marks https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2_H3hKK6a0zMFF0eGZVaG1HUlk 
- A 5 minute slideshow presentation - that presents the name, ideals and goals of your utopia. In class, we will focus in one certain questions everyday. Your answers to these questions must be directly or indirectly put forward in your slideshow. All members of the group must speak. (I will introduce you to slideshow platforms). 36 marks https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2_H3hKK6a0zanE5TzRIS3k1aEE 
- A one page summary/manifesto. If you put this up beside your map, anyone to reading it will understand the mission of your utopia. 24 marks (6 point scale times 4) http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/specs/grade10/en/07_rubric.pdf

Chapter 10 - Love, Marriage, Murder, Suicide

1) Quiz - your homework was to read Chapter 10 of The Chrysalids. Here is a wee closed book quiz to make sure you did.

• The marriage of Anne to a "norm" is the central theme of this chapter. What arguments to the members of the group use to try and stop Anne from marrying Alan? Do you think they are valid? Why or why not?  (4 marks)
• What does uncle Axel suggest as a solution to the problem of Anne and Alan? Why can't David go along with it?  (2 marks)

2) Discussion Questions - The Group - discuss in pairs and then share ideas in whole class discussion.

"The Group" is extremely important for its members and when one of them breaks away it is a traumatic 

event. 

•  What is the group and what does it do?  

•  How do the members take care of each other?  

•  What responsibilities do the members have?  

•  What makes this group special?  

•  Is there any rivalry?  

•  Where does David fit in?  

3) Read Aloud - Chapter 11

4) Vocabulary - this book is filled with crazy-making, vocabulary-expanding words. 

Find the most obvious and suitable definition for the following words. You can BYOD (bring your own device) and use your smart phone to use a dictionary app or an online dictionary, like dictionary.com. I also have the ipods (ask Mr. Kochanuk for them - they are currently locked in his cupboard).

Be prepared to discuss the words tomorrow.

germinate -  valiantly -  predicament - 

emphatic -  apprehensively -  conventions -  affirmation 

perturbed  tediously - unrelieved 

- virtue - credible - creditable - sophisticated -

timorously admonitions -  meticulousness - implacable

incredulous - placid - dissent - 

malicious -  aggravated -  undignified -  unconscionable

omnipotent - echelon ambitious -  to flounder -  gravitated -  

lugubriously -  to ponder - expiated -  remorse - abnegations - dissuade - impasse -  disowned -  dilemma -  emphatically 

5) If time, Utopia work, Chapter Questions...