April 6th

Today was PARTS OF SPEECH QUIZ! ask Hanlon to take if have not taken so already.

Hand in editorial with thesis.


We got the handout for an essay outline, and we got time in class to fill out for own essay you will be writing.

April 4th

We continued with the ESSAY STRUCTURE NOTES.

Got some literary terms:

Active Voice: "The boy threw the ball" uses the active voice, contrast with passive voice. (Direct).

Passive voice: "The ball was thrown by the boy" uses the passive voice. It should generally be avoided, it is often considered weak writing. Contrast with active voice. It puts the subject in the objects place, and vice versa. (Indirect.)

Climatic order: Write the whole thing.
                         3 major points, and how to order points. Start with weak to strongest. Contrast with chronological order, anti-climatic order, illogical order.

Read "Less is not more" article. Find:

• Statistical evidence. 
• Shift.
• The structure, 

TOMORROW IS PARTS OF SPEECH QUIZ!

Hanlon says that you are unable to use any tools during the test, but he will try and give you a hand.

Get an article from the local newspaper and find what it's thesis is. It is due next class.

April 1st

Went over the Root words 6. Test mid-April.

Went over essay:

TOPICS:

 Discuss:

1.  The use of irony.
2. The theme.
3. Bradbury's style.
4. The book as an allegory. 

Martian Chronicles and American colonization-

MC:

1. Earthmen travel to Mars.
2. Martians fight with and kill Earthmen. 
3. Martians most likely killed by chicken pox.
4. Earthmen colonize Mars, making like Earth in style, government, and ect....
5. Ben Driscoll on Mars plants trees. 
6. African-American leave Earth for Mars to avoid stigmatization. 
7. War breaks out on Earth, and many living on Mars return to fight/help.
8. Residents of Mars now more martian than Earth men. 

Am. colonization:

1. European travel to America.
2. Natives attack Europeans.
3. Many Natives killed by small pox.
4. European colonize America and make it like Europe.
5. Johnny Appleseed travels to America planting apple trees.
6. Puritans leave Europe for America to avoid stigmatization.
7. War breaks out in Europe, and many return to Europe to fight (WWI, and II).
8. Residents of America are ow more American than European.

Theme:  Humans may cause themselves more harm than good. 

Essay structure notes. 

March 30th

Welcome back!

Make sure to finish ALL term two work before mid-April, will not be accepted after.
Do all of term 3 assignments! Such as:

• Ballad of the black fox pelt.
• Root Quiz 5.
• David questions.
• Parts of Speech sheet.

Got Root Quiz 6 words today.

Parts of Speech test will be next week: April 6th!!

Parts of Speech tutorial after school tomorrow in Hanlon's class!

Went over the rest of the Footloose article.

PLEASE GET "THE FIRE BALLOONS" NOTES DONE ASAP!

Coma and Conjunction: When joining two complete thoughts, use a comma AND a conjunction. 

                                    EG: The dog laughed, but the cat cried. 

Semi-Colon: Use where you would use a period IF the two"sentences" on either side are closely related.

                                 EG: I like pizza; I do not like anchovies. 

Subordinate Clause:  If one part of the sentence starts with ALTHOUGH, WHILE, BEFORE, AFTER, DURING, SINCE, BECAUSE, DESPITE, and WHEN...ect... then it could be joined to a complete thought with a comma. 

                               EG: Although philology is my favorite subject, I also like philosophy. 

March 9th

DOUBLE BLOCK TODAY, LAST BEFORE BREAK!


Saw mark for ROOT QUIZ 5!

Finishing The Martian Chronicles:

"There Will Come Soft Rains":

Title references Teasedale's poem, BUT this story emphasizes our machines indifference to humanities annihilation.

Music and Religion referenced.

Similar to "The Veldt"s happy-life home.

House is comparable to Hathaway's family.

No people in story.

The House is the protagonist struggles to carry out/maintain daily routines. Fire is antagonist.

PG.220-224: The automatic house carries out it's daily routines in a destroyed neighbourhood; the dog dies, and house cleans.

PG. 224-225: Describing life in the Nursery.

PG.225- 226: House reads the poem.

PG.226-228: House burns and dies.

COURSE QUESTION! #1,3.

In absence of having a perspective,the house cannot guide judgement.
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"The Million-Year Picnic"

A lot of water and fish references. (Renewal?)

-Cathedral (230)

Music reference.

PG.229-231: A Family, on vacation, on Mars, is going off to fish.

PG.231-241: Dad explains everything to the family after rocket destroyed.

Course Question: #3,
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"The Fire Balloons" is Spring break homework!! Please, this is for my lesson :D
Do what we have done in class: like the group work we did for "There Will Come Soft Rains".
Course Question!

March 7th

PARTS OF SPEECH test will be after Spring break!

Go over "There Will Come Soft Rains":

Bradbury style alike: Motifs, senses, description, tonal shift.

Course Questions: #1, 3.


"Footloose" newspaper article:
Find ALL the mistakes...

x,y, and z. (y,and= oxford comma).
You can't start a sentence with a conjunction. (FANBOYS)
times [sic].



SENTENCE COMBINING STRATEGIES:

1. Em-Dash: Used to indicate an interruption of thought.
• If you were going to -- if you dictated what we spoke -- like I'm using them right now -- you would need a lot of em-dashes. (first em-dash is causing a "re-start", other two work together.)

Sorry I was away for March 2nd!

I was informed that today you had to finish your PARTS OF SPEECH sheet which is due next class.

You also have ROOT QUIZ 5 next class!