Class Content from ENG4U wiki September 2012 – January 2013
September
4 - introduction to course, wiki, big ideas
5 - Essay Analysis - in-class activity; homework: read short story for tomorrow
6 - Short Story Review: The Shining Houses
7 - Short Story analysis; homework - begin rough work for Discussion paper for The Shining Houses
10 - Teacher away; Work on The Shining Houses - discussion about theme
11 - Work on Discussion Paper
12 - Lit. Theory continues
13 - Library for Great Gatsby research; Shining Houses Discussion Paper clean copy due
14 - Annotated Biblio handout;
17 - teacher away; finish "Outside Edges"; Feminism Handout
18 - Feminism and "Shining Houses"
19 - continued; Marxism
20 - Computer lab for World's Fair; The Great Gatsby page of this wiki is now available
21 - Psycholanalytic analysis; intro Film analysis assignment
Sept
24 - watch 3:10 to Yuma; work time for presentations
25 - World's Fair Handouts due (for printing); 3:10 to Yuma; work check for Psychoanalytic notes
26 - World's Fair
27 - Handout and work on embedding quotations; continue movie; class time to work on Film Analysis
Presentations
28 - Finish movie; work on film analysis notes; Film Analysis work time
Oct 1 - Film Analysis Presentation work time; reading time for Gatsby
2 - Film Analysis work time; reading for Gatsby; sign up for Blog and for Turnitin
3 - Quiz on GG presentation handouts; Film presentations; finish signups
4 - GG time; work time for discussion papers; time to go over answers for "The Plague of Plagiarists"
5 - PD day
9 – GG quiz 1
10 11 – discussion paper due - to Turnitin - extension to Sunday midnight so that the blog posts get done; First blog
post due
12 – class GG discussions - teacher home sick - moved to Monday
15 – SEEP work; GG work time
16 - quiz 2; SEEP work
17 - SEEP sight passage test
18 – GG blog post due; work time; article on the American Dream; Jane McGonigal's Ted Talk re Gaming
19 - class discussions; work on personal responses - students to do one in response to the Ted Talk posted above
22 – work on personal responses - students to do one in response to the Ted Talk posted above;
Start work on personal response. Due date will be
assigned on Wednesday. You should have rough notes/brainstorming for Wednesday
23 - quiz 3
24 - notes/brainstorming for personal response due
25 – Essay prep information; essay prompts given (see Gatsby page of wiki); article about Nick as narrator (see
Gatsby page); handout on unity and transitions; Personal Response: See SEEP Preparation page
26 - class discussions; work time for essays
Oct 29 - In-class essay
30 – In-class essay; give out The Namesake
31 – Hand in personal response; In-class essay (for those away on the 30th
only); Reading time for The Namesake; Summative Novel Discussion
Nov 1 - Lesson 1 for The Namesake - naming conventions and discussion; lead
into blogs
2 - computer lab - blogging research
5 – hmwk: chpt 2; BYOD day – to work on blog prep & analysis; give back
G.G. essays
6 – hmwk: chpt 3; quotations about the novel; symbols - train
7 – Computer Lab (room 211) hmwk: chpt 4;
8 – quiz chpts 1-4; hmwk: blog post; immigration, essay "Wanderers by
Choice"; marks for report card; reading and note-taking time;
Please go to The Namesake page, open link for "Blog Name & Address",
complete form
9 – hmwk: chpt 5 & 6; BYOD class; chose essay prompts; "The Overcoat" synopsis; class discussions
12 – hmwk: chpt 7; work time for notes and discussion in small groups; Break
down the prompts together
13 – hmwk: chpt 8;
14 – quiz; chpts 5-8; hmwk: chpt 9; discussion and work time
15 – BYOD class; hmwk: blog post; Inspirational Ted Talk We watched this
and connected the ideas to blogging
16 – PD Day; hmwk: chpt 10 & 11;
19 – Summative Novels; BYOD class; hmwk: chapter 12
20 – quiz chpt 9-12; class discussion; final blog posts tonight
21 – class time for essay; Quiz
22 – time for essay; essay work time
23 - essay work time