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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

English 12
Provincial Prep
1. Mark multiple choice for Synthesis Text Assignment #2.
2. Write Synthesis mini-essay (due tomorrow morning at 830am).
- ensure you bring back the provincial text handouts unmarked, tomorrow.
- return overdue novels
3. Original Composition practice - January 21st-30th.
4. Review literary devices.
*Reminder: Grad Transitions are due January 23rd.*
*Your Provincial Exam is Monday, February 2nd (AM).
*Comm 12 Exam is Tuesday, February 3rd (AM).

English 11(2)
Macbeth
1. Literary Device and review quiz.
2. Outline for WAQ (topic: Who is responsible for the evil that takes place in Macbeth?).
*Writing WAQ in-class tomorrow, Wednesday, January 21st.* (Should be handed in at the end of Wednesday's class).
*Must include 5-8 quotations, theme and thesis statements*
*Your final exam is Monday, February 2nd (AM).
- return overdue novels

English 11(4)
The Crucible
1. Review quiz.
2. Finish film adaptation.
3.WAQ outline (topic: What aspects of Puritan society in 1692 allowed the witch hunts to take place? What are modern-day equivalent witch-hunts?) *Theme, thesis, quotations, transitions*
- Find 5-8 quotations for some/all of the following points:
A. Puritan lifestyles and principles
B. Emphasis on punishment, Hell, damnation
C. Disapproved of joy/celebration
D. Conformity only acceptable way of life
E. Political allegory for McCarthyism/fear of Communism in the 1950s.
E. Other modern examples?
*Writing WAQ in-class tomorrow, Wednesday Jan 21st.* (Should be handed in at the beginning of Thursday's class.)
*Your final exam is Monday, February 2nd (AM).
- return overdue novels