Scottish Play

Eric

Katy, Kendall, Jayne

Scottish Play

Aref, Sepp, Nakeyta, Freddy

A David

Maggie and Patrick

Momo

Scottish Play

Who's that Lady?

More Scottish Play

Alex and Sean

Hillary and Brandon

Sarah, Alana, Cally

Russell and Sardara

Shirina, Nicole and Olga

Scottish Play Pics

Kaitlyn, Andrew, Gurpreet, Eric

InChan and Eric

Katy, Kendall, Jayne

Kendall, Jayne, Lucia, Justin

Eng. 11 - Fri. 4 - Jan. 5

For Friday Dec. 4 - IIiii, iv questions

For Mon. Dec. 7 - IIIi,ii,iii questions scene assignments
For Tues. Dec. 8 - IIIiv,v,vi questions
For Thurs. Dec. 10 - IV i, ii, iii and Vi, ii
For Friday, Dec. 11 - all questions for Acts IV and V

Scene Assignment: Monday, Dec. 14

Mac Test: Thursday, Dec. 17

Fishbowl: Monday, Jan. 4
In Class Essay: Tuesday, Jan. 5

Lit - now until Christmas

Tues. 1 - discuss all of III - scene assignment
Wed. 2 - act out IV and some of V
Thurs. 3 - give soliloquy assignment
Fri. 4 - discuss IV

Mon. 7 - act out the rest of play
Tues. 8 - discuss the rest of play - figure out fishbowl topics
Wed. 9 - SOLILOQUY ASSIGNMENT
Thurs. 10 - FISHBOWL (classes are shortened due to Holiday Classic)
Fri. 11 - SCENES

Mon. 14 - movie
Tues. 15 - movie
Wed. 16 - Quote Test
Thurs. 17 - In-Class Essay
Fri. 18 - treat day

English 11 - for Monday, Nov. 30

both blocks- complete questions for Iiv, v, vi vii.

Lit 12

Prepare IIi and IIii for Thursday's class.

Lit 12 - Nov. 19

Prepare I scenes: i, ii, iii for Friday, Nov. 20

Friday, Nov. 20 - act out the rest of I

Monday, Nov. 21 - I iv, v due; discuss I

English 11 - Fishbowls

A fishbowl is when a group of people come prepared with notes, quotes, thesis ideas and questions about their topic and discuss free-form in a small circle. Your notes should be written as if you will be writing the essay that class. Keep in mind, you're forming ideas - the more quotes and questions you bring, the better your essay will be. Not talking is not an option - everyone in the group needs to talk.

block 2 - group one - fear - Evan, Katy, Shirina, Andrew, Brandon, Vahag, Nicole, Taylor, Pedro
group two - power- Andy, Kendall, Giampaolo, Olga, Lucy, Jen, Laura, Gurpreet,Mo, Eric
group three - hope - Justin, Jayne, Lucia, Russell, Sardara, Kevin, Fiona, Kaitlyn, InChan, James

block 4 - group one - fear - David, Daniel, Mandy, Maggie, Nikeyta, Marthin, Jenny, Sepp

group 2 - power - Aref, Freddy, Hillary, Alana, Cally, Andrea, Dalton, Sean, Patrick

group 3 - society - Nathan, Brandon, Abigail, Sarah, Alex, Ann, Malcolm, Momo, Seo Jeong

Halloween in English

Thriller dance

Lit class

Jesus of Nazereth

English 11 block 4

Test Make-up Day for Eng.11

Those who missed the tests, the make up time is Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 am.

Cuckoo's Nest Due Dates

Monday, November 2 - Ch. 1-6

Wednesday, November 4 - Ch. 7 - 15

Friday, November 6 - Vocab Test

Mon. 9 -Presentation Assignment given
Tues. 10 - Library Day
Thurs. 12 - Ch.16-23

Monday, Nov. 16 - Presentations Due
Tuesday, Nov. 17- Ch. 24- end due

Friday, Nov.20 - Fishbowl
Monday, Nov. 23 - In-class essay

Tuesday, Nov. 24 - Cuckoo's Test

Lit - Grad Retro Day

Eng 11 - Oct. 19

Read "The Blue Bouquet" (last story)

Eng. 11 - Oct. 16

Work on your group presentations!

Lit 12 - Oct. 19 - Nov. 18

Monday 19 - finish discussing Ch. 3-13
Tuesday 20 - watch movie #1 - Stephanie's group in charge of treats
Wednesday 21 - I - Ch. 14- 23 due - discuss
Thursday 22 - Go over Sight Reading Test

Friday 23 - Pro D! Meet at Granville Island at 9:00

Monday 26 - Character #1
Tuesday 27 - Go over Content Test
Wednesday 28- II Ch. 1-11 due (also discuss) - watch movie #2 - Caroline's group in charge of treats
Thursday 29 - discuss II Ch. 12-19 Give Project!
Friday 30 - Vocab Festival #2

Monday 2- II Ch.12-19 due - discuss
Tuesday 3 - Movie #3 & 4- Julie's group and Dylan's group in charge of treats
Wednesday 4- finish movie 4, III Ch.1- 10
Thursday 5- Character #2
Friday 6 - Vocab Test , finish Ch. 1-10

Monday 9 - III Ch 11-19 due, discuss
Tuesday 10 - movie #5, 6 - Ali and Kyrsten's groups for treats
Thursday 12 - finish #6 , themes, tie-up
Friday 13 - Fishbowl

Monday 16 - Project Due Date
Tuesday 17 - In-Class Essay
Wednesday 18 - Start Hamlet!

Lit - due for Fri. Oct. 16

Have questions or quotes done for Part I, Chapters 1-13 done. (P&P)

English 11 - Thursday, Oct. 15

1. Read "Sunday in the Park" (Viewpoints)

2. Write a paragraph on each element of short fiction. (setting and atmosphere, conflict, character, irony, symbol, point of view, theme). Use literary language and explain how each elements contributes to the artistic unity of the whole story.

3. Write an evocative question about the story. Answer it.

4. Quote an important sentence or phrase from the story. Explain its importance.

Lit Presentations

Mama Anthony



Brendon is dead.


I only got some group pictures, unfortunately, because my camera ran out of batteries!  Sorry!

Eng. 11 - Important Dates

Essay due: Thurs. Oct. 15
Vocab (40) : Fri. Oct. 16

Group Presentations - Wed. Oct. 21
Thurs. Oct. 22

Go over essays - Mon. Oct. 26

Sight Reading Test - Tues. Oct. 27
Content Test - Wed. Oct. 28

Eng 11 Oct. 9

"Serious Talk" Essay due: Thursday, Oct. 15.

Group Presentations: Wednesday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 22

Have a story picked for Monday.

Eng. 11 (block 2) - Oct. 7

Read "Serious Talk" for Thursday and have a paragraph answer for #2 completed.

English 11 - Oct. 6

Have #7 for "We Have to Sit Opposite" completed in paragraph form.

We will be having an irony contest with an episode of The Simpsons if the class completes the homework.


30 words for Vocab. Friday, October 9

Lit - Upcoming Events -Oct.2 - Oct. 14

Have your questions for “Paul’s Case” finished for Monday, Oct. 5. Question and quote and text questions 32,3,4,5,10.

Presentations will take place Thursday, Oct. 8 and Friday, Oct. 9.

Sight Reading Test – Wednesday, Oct. 14 (bring S&S text)

Content Test – Thursday, Oct. 15 (bring one-sided page of quotes)

Many marks will be earned on these days, so try to be present!

50 Vocab words are due for Vocab Fest#2 on Friday, Oct. 30

Eng. 11 Oct. 2-6

Have your questions for "We Have to Sit Opposite" finished for Tues., Oct. 6.

We will be going over your essays on Monday. Very important!

Eng. 11 Sept. 28

Have your "Hunger Artist" questions fully completed in paragraph form.

Don't forget to add to your vocabulary list.

Lit 12

Read "The Destructors" and do your question and quote and text questions #1,4,5,6, 8

Today I gave out group presentations. They will take place: Thursday, October 8 and Friday October 9.

Don't forget to work on your vocab - 25 for Friday, October 2.

Eng 11 Sept. 25

Your essay on the theme of "A Lady's Beaded Bag" is due on Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Please hand it in on time.

Read "A Hunger Artist" for Monday. You will have time to work on questions in class.

For those of you who did not complete their vocab - make sure 20 are done for next Friday. People who were not here need to copy the words from today.

Eng. 11 - Sept. 21-25

Monday21 - discuss "A Lady's Beaded Bag" receive essay assignment due: Monday Sept. 28

Tuesday 22 - receive conflict notes, read "Beggaring Our Better Selves" - HW - questions to go with article.

Wednesday 23 - discuss conflict and recieve point of view notes - discuss "Beggaring"




Friday 24 - Vocab due (10 words)

Monday 28 - Essay Due

Lit 12 - Sept. 21-23

Monday 21- Write in-class Essay People who missed (Charnpreet, Maddy, Jess, Kyrsten) write Thursday at 8:00 am
Tuesday 22- Watch video of "The Lottery" - HW - read "Just Lather, That's All" : QQ and text questions # 1, 2, 4, 7, 8

Wednesday 23 - Debate!


You will find out about your group presentations on Thursday or Friday.

Lit 12 - Sept. 16

Read and prepare "The Lottery" p. 227 of Story and Structure. Do your question and quote and answer questions 1,2,3,6,7.

Eng. 11 Sept. 16

Read and answer questions for "A Lady's Beaded Bag." Also, fill out the "debate sheet" on both sides. Answer the question: "Is the trashpicker sane"?


If you have been away, you will find the story by googling the title - author: Tennessee Williams.

The questions can be found on another post.

Yesterday we took notes on "Theme" and wrote paragraphs on theme.


Be prepared for a debate on Sept. 17. Don't forget to do your vocab!

Lit 12 - Sept. 14

Read and analyze (the order) "The Dead Men's Path" for Tuesday.

English 11 - Sept. 10

Read and answer questions for "Hills Like White Elephants."

paragraph answers.

Lit 12 - Sept. 10

1. Finish Question and Quote for "Japanese Quince"

2. Read "How to Analyze a Short Story" p. 1082 in Lit text

3. Agree or disagree with the analysis on p. 1085


4. Take notes on "Guidelines for Reading a Short Story" on p. 1086

"A Lady's Beaded Bag"

Questions for "A Lady's Beaded Bag."

The story of "A Lady's Beaded Bag"

Journalism Class

Poverty

Omeed is a walrus

Brendon as Puff

Dominik is a baby


Brendon is frolicking

Chloe, Kevin, Chelsea and Mason as clouds and the sun

Vote on Fishbowl topics

Lit kids: vote on the following topics - you may choose 3.


1. Frustration/disappointment
2. Sonnet form/ emotions
3. Issues in need of reform
4. significant change is central to...
5. Admirable human qualites (hero)
6. Contrast between nature and society
7. Moral judgment
8. Powerlessness
9. Theme is developed by inclusion of a creature of nature
10. Complexities of human relationships
11. Comfort is derived from different sources
12. Natural world reflects emotion state
13. Difficulties with love relationships
14. Different kinds of love
15. Unfulfilled longing
16. Honour that which is enduring and timeless
17. Death

Last two weeks of English 11

M J. 1 - start poetry
T J.2 - T. J4 - poetry package
F. J5 - last day for book talks

M J.8 - go over Mac essays
T J. 9 - go over Mac tests, more poetry For homework: Write a paragraph on what the snake symbolizes in the poem "Snake" p. 181 of Inside Poetry - make sure you have references.

W. J.10 - discussing "Snake"
T. J. 11 - Poetry Presentations
F. J. 12 - good-bye / year book signing

Last two weeks of Lit 12

M. J1 - learn everything about the test to come, "The Darkling Thrush" and "Do Not Go Gentle"
T. J2 - Go over Romantic Essays, discuss "Pretty" and "Disembarking at Quebec"
W. J3 - Review 3 Modern poems and one Victorian poem (from 1st semester)
T. J4 - watch first half of Mel Gibson's Hamlet
F. J5 - test on Victorian and Modern Eras  Bard on the Beach - be at Vanier Park at 7:15


Prepare "Pretty" and "Disembarking" for Tuesday.

Reread "Because," "Hollow Men," "Second Coming," and "Dulce et Decorum Est" for Thursday and bring your notes from first semester!

You may have noticed I switched Wed. and Thursday's classes due to an unforeseen cold bug.


M. J 8 - watch part 2 of Hamlet
T. J9 - MC student, provincials and go over test, decide on fishbowls/groups
W. J10 - Fishbowl on three topics
T. J11 - Games/Relays
F. J12 - Good-bye / sign yearbooks

Lady Laurence

Scottish Play Scenes

Earthquake Drill

Lit 12: May 25-29

Mon - "Ulysses"
Tues - Victorian Notes/ "My Last Duchess"
Wed - Romantic Essay Due / "Song"/ "Sonnet 43"
Thurs - "Dover Beach"/"Darkling Thrush"
Fri - "Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night"

We will work on "Ulysses" in class, but have the Victorian Notes prepared for Tuesday.

Finish up "Ulysses" for Tuesday

For Thursday: Prepare "Dover Beach" and "Darkling Thrush" (questions, quotes, text, author notes, literary devices

For Friday: "Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night"

Important Dates for Eng. 11 (May 25-29)

Mon/Tues - watch movie
Wed - Fishbowl
Thurs - In-class Essay
Fri - Scottish Play Test

For Wednesday, May 27 - prepare topics for discussion!

Eng 11 May 19 - May 22

Tues. May 19 - Go over Vi,ii,iii - Finish acting Viv, v, vi, vii, viii

Wed. May 20 - Time to work on scenes

Thurs. May 21 - Go over Viv, v, vi, vii, viii - brainstorm fishbowl themes

Fri. May 22 - Scene Day!

For Thursday - finish all the questions for V

Lit 12 May 19-23

Tues. May 19 - Go over "Ode to the West Wind"
Wed. May 20 - "Ode to a Nightingale"
Thurs. May 21 - "Nightingale" / "When I Have Fears that I may Cease to Be"/ Review
Fri. May 22 - Restoration/Romantic Test (Pepys - Keats) - 20 MC, 5 quotes - author, title, devices, themes - mini essay question, paragraph answer 70 marks

For Thursday: prepare "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"








Special Reminder: Romantic Essay due: Wednesday, May 27

Lit 12

Mon - Finish going over "World" and "Heart" - read aloud "Rime" HW - QQx2, text, devices
Tues - Groups for "Rime" presentation QQx3, text questions, devices due - give essay topics
Wed - "Rime" discussion and presentation
Thurs - "Apostrophe to the Ocean" Give out Romantic Essay topics (due Wednesday, May 27)
Fri - "Ocean"/"Wind"

For Tuesday - 3xQQ, text questions - notes on atmosphere, colours, symbolism, theme, images, supernatural.

For Wednesday - consider the symbolism of the sun, moon, watersnakes, ice and the deeper symbolism of the albatross

For Thursday - "Apostrophe to the Ocean" QQ, text, literary devices

For Tuesday - May 19 - "Ode to the West Wind" QQ, text

English 11 May 11-15

Mon - Finish going over II, start acting III
Tues - Finish acting III, go over questions
Wed - Give out scenes
Thurs - Act out IV
Fri - Go over IV and booktalks

For Tuesday: Answer questions for III i, ii, iii

For Wednesday: Answer questions for III v, vi

For Friday: Answer questions for IVi,ii,iii

Next Wedneday, May 20 - time to work on scenes!

For Tuesday (May 19) - Answer questions for Vi,ii,iii - think about themes of The Scottish Play

Next Friday - May 22 - Scenes

Eng. 11 May 6-May10

Mon. - Go over Ii,ii,iii Go over OFOCN Test (block 2)

Tues. - Act out rest of I time for questions - rest of I questions due

Wed. - Go over I questions, act out II - questions due for homework

Thurs. - block 2 - Go over Essay

Friday - booktalks, go over II questions

block 2 - for Tues - have Iiv, Iv finished

for Friday - have all of Act II questions finished

Lit 12 - May 4 - May 8

Monday - "Tyger"/"Lamb"
Tues - Thurs - "Elegy" - Presentations
Fri - "My Heart Leaps Up" / "The World is Too Much With Us

For Tuesday: Romantic Notes

For Wednesday: Prepare "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray - do two questions and quotes, text questions and literary devices - pre work for group

For Wednesday: Prepare Group Presentations on different sections

Thursday: Group Presentations performed (make sure your homework from Wednesday is finished)

Finish discussion of "Elegy" Prepare "My Heart Leaps Up" and "World" for Friday

WARNING: Big Essay to be assigned next week.

Specified Reading List for Lit

SPECIFIED READINGS LIST
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval
• from Beowulf, “The Coming of Grendel”;
“The Coming of Beowulf”;
“The Battle with Grendel”;
“The Burning of Beowulf’s Body”
(if using Athena edition) / “The Farewell”
(if using Prentice-Hall edition)
• from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury
Tales, “The Prologue” (Lines 1–42,
Knight, Squire, Nun, Monk, Friar, Oxford
Cleric, Wife of Bath, Parson, Plowman,
Miller, Reeve, Summoner, Pardoner)
• “Bonny Barbara Allan” (ballad)
• from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(lines 1 to the end if using the Athena
edition, and lines 259 to the end if using
Prentice-Hall edition)



18th Century and Romantic • Lady Mary Chudleigh, “To the Ladies”
• Alexander Pope, from The Rape of the
Lock (Canto III and V excerpts)
• Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
• Robert Burns, “To a Mouse”
• William Blake, “The Tiger”;
“The Lamb”
• Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard”
• William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps
Up”; “The World Is Too Much with Us”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”
• George Gordon, Lord Byron,
“Apostrophe to the Ocean”
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West
Wind”
• John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”;
“When I Have Fears That I May
Cease to Be”



Renaissance and 17th Century
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso List to Hunt”
• Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate
Shepherd to his Love”
• Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply
to the Shepherd”
• William Shakespeare, Sonnets 29, 116,
130; Hamlet, King Lear or The Tempest
• John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning”; “Death, Be Not Proud”
• Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins”
• John Milton, “On His Blindness”;
from Paradise Lost (Book I, lines 1–263)
• Samuel Pepys, “The Fire of London”



Victorian and 20th Century
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43
• Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
• Emily Brontë, “Song”
• Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
• Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
• Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not
Stop for Death”
• Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
• William Butler Yeats, “The Second
Coming”
• T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
• Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into
That Good Night”
• Stevie Smith, “Pretty”
• Margaret Atwood, “Disembarking at

Lit 12 Literary Terms for Exams

Ministry of Education - 1 - English Literature 12
2008/09 School Year Terms and Devices
ENGLISH LITERATURE 12
TERMS AND DEVICES
A
allegory
alliteration
allusion
analogy
antagonist
anticlimax
anti-Petrarchan
antithesis
aphorism
apostrophe
archaic language
aside
assonance
atmosphere
audience
B
ballad
ballad stanza
bathos
bias
blank verse
C
cacophony
caesura
caricature
carpe diem
character
character foil
characterization
chorus
classical
climax
colloquial language
comedy
comic relief
conceit
conflict
connotation
consonance
couplet
D
denotation
dénouement
dialect
dialogue
diary
diction
didactic
dilemma
dissonance
dramatic irony
dramatic monologue
E
elegy
English
(Shakespearean) sonnet
epic
epigram
epigraph
epilogue
epitaph
essay
euphemism
euphony
exposition
extended metaphor
F
figurative language
foreshadowing
free verse
G
genre
H
hero
heroic couplet
hyperbole
I
iambic
image
imagery
in medias res
internal rhyme
inversion
invocation
irony
Italian
(Petrarchan) sonnet
J
juxtaposition
K
kenning
L
Latinate
literal language
lyric
M
metaphor
metaphysical
meter
metonymy
mock epic
mock heroic
monologue
mood
motif
N
narrative
narrator
near rhyme (half, slant)
O
octave
ode
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
P
paradox
parallelism
parody
pastoral
pathos
pentameter
persona
personification
Petrarchan
(Italian) sonnet
play on words
prologue
protagonist
proverb
pun
Q
quatrain
R
refrain
resolution
rhetoric
rhetorical question
rhyme
rhyme scheme
rhythm
Romanticism
S
satire
sestet
Shakespearean
(English) sonnet
simile
soliloquy
sonnet
speaker
Spenserian stanza
stanza
stock / stereotyped
style
symbol
synecdoche
syntax
T
tercet
terza rima
tetrameter
theme
tone
tragedy
trimeter
trochaic
trochee
U
understatement
V
villanelle
voice
volta
W
wit
word play

Link to Provincial Exams

If you would like to look at provincial exams, check it out!


Provincial Exams

Lit 12 - April 27-May 1st

Mon - Finish "To the Ladies"
Tues, Wed, Thurs. - Work through "Rape of the Lock"

Homework for Tuesday's class - "Rape" QQ for each Canto, find examples for the following devices:

allusions
epic similes
zeugma
satire
aphorisms
elevated language
many metaphors for the same object (scissors)
ironic juxtaposition
humorous names
caricatures
trivial given serious treatment


Don't forget to meet at the bus for David Bouchard at 1:00pm. To see video of David Bouchard, click on his name.

Don't forget to bring your $21.50 for Bard on the Beach.

For Thursday - do the question and quote and text questions for "A Modest Proposal"

For Friday - prepare "To a Mouse"  Read "Tyger" and "Lamb" to prepare for Monday.  Don't forget Vocab. #6

English 11 - April 27-May 1

Mon - OFOCN Test
Tues - Fishbowl
Wed - OFOCN In-Class Essay
Thurs - Start the Scottish Play
Fri - Continue the Scottish Play

Groups for Tuesday's Fishbowl



1. Power - Brendon, Maddie, Chloe, Emma, Brittany, Michelle, Nikki, Tyler, Aaron

2. Freedom - Louisa, Brian, Jess, Sara, Joanna, Min Ah, Kevin, Lesley

3. Society - Kirsten, Chelsea, Katie, Mason, Christine, Jae Woo, Laurence, Emily

Don't forget to have questions, thesis statements and quotes.

For Wednesday: make sure you have your quotes on one sided page for your in-class essay.

For Friday: have the first four questions for "Before the Play" done

For Monday: have Ii, ii, iii questions finished.