Remedial English 9
Monday July 12th: Creative Writing - Creative Writing Topics
Big Idea: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Curricular Competency: Comprehend and Connect: •Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning requires exploration of one’s identity
Tuesday July 13th: Creative Writing: Descriptive Language
Big Idea: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Curricular Competency: Create and Communicate: •Transform ideas and information to create original texts
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive,reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place)
Big Idea: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Curricular Competency: Create and Communicate: •Transform ideas and information to create original texts
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place)
Wednesday July 14th: Creative Writing - Understanding Ourselves
Big Idea: Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose,and message
-Comprehend and Connect: •Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
-Comprehend and Connect: •Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking
Content: Story/text:•forms, functions,and genres of text•text features•elements of visual/graphic texts
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning requires exploration of one’s identity
Thursday July 15th: Text Types - Connections to Others
Big Idea: Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
-Create and Communicate: •Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
-Comprehend and Connect: •Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Content:
-Strategies and processes:•oral language strategies
-Language features, structures, and conventions: •presentation techniques
-Language features, structures, and conventions:•features of oral language
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors
Friday July 16th: Text Types - Connections to the World
Big Idea: Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
-Create and Communicate: •Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
-Comprehend and Connect: •Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Content: Story/text:•elements of visual/graphic texts Strategies and processes:•oral language strategies
-Language features, structures, and conventions:•features of oral language
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors
Monday July 19th: Analytical Essays - Theme
Tuesday July 20th: Analytical Essays
Big Idea: Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Express an opinion and support it with credible evidence
-Comprehend and Connect: •Explain how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
Content: Story/text:•literary devices
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning involves patience and time
This is a brief tutorial expplaining the overview of an analytical essay. If you have ever felt 'stuck', and confused as to how to write an essay, then this is a good place to start. If you watch it, and then you are still confused, please come and see me, and we can figure out which parts are the trickiest, and then focus on those parts. I have the word document here with the script which I read, in case you wanted to slow things down and READ what was said... :)
Wednesday July 21st: Analytical Essays - the template
Big Idea: Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Curricular Competency: Comprehend and Connect: •Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Content: Story/text:•literary elements
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning involves patience and time
Thursday July 22nd: Analytical Essays- the real deal!
Big Idea: Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Curricular Competency: Comprehend and Connect: •Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance,accuracy, and reliability
Content: Language features, structures, and conventions:•multi-paragraphing
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning involves patience and time
Friday July 23rd: Text Improvement: 10 sentences
Big Idea: Texts are socially,culturally, and historically constructed.
Curricular Competency: Create and Communicate: •Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
Content: Strategies and processes:•writing processes
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive,reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place)
Monday July 26th: Text Improvement: Audience and Message
Big Idea: Texts are socially,culturally, and historically constructed.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose,audience, and message
-Create and Communicate: •Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaning full literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
-Comprehend and Connect: •Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
Content: Language features, structures, and conventions:•usage•syntax and sentence fluency•conventions
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place)
Tuesday July 27th: Text Improvement - Grammar and Punctuation
Big Idea: Texts are socially, culturally, and historically constructed.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
-Create and Communicate: •Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaning full literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Content: Language features, structures, and conventions:•language change•elements of style
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning involves patience and time
Wednesday July 28th: Critical Literary Theory: Psychoanalytic Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Marxist-Feminist Criticism, Gender and Queer Studies
Big Idea: People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
Curricular Competency:
-Create and Communicate: •Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
-Create and Communicate: •Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaning full literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Content: Language features, structures, and conventions:•language change•elements of style
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning requires exploration of one’s identity
Thursday July 29th: Critical Literary Theory: New Criticism, Formalism, Moral Criticism
Big Idea: People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
Curricular Competency:
Comprehend and Connect: • Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
Comprehend and Connect: • Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
Content:
-Language features, structures, and conventions: • connotation and denotation
-Strategies and processes: •reading strategies
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one’s actions
Friday July 30th: Critical Literary Theory: Critical Race Theory, Post-Colonial Criticism
Big Idea: People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
Curricular Competency:
Comprehend and Connect: • Recognize the influence of place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts
Comprehend and Connect: • Develop an awareness of the diversity within and across First Peoples societies represented in texts
Content:
Language features, structures, and conventions: •rhetorical devices
Story/text: •elements of visual/graphic texts
First Peoples Principle of Learning: Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story