"A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune"

1. What do Angus and the grandfather mean when they say: "I want My Moment"?

2. Consider the movie and real life when answering this question: Why is it so wrong to tease and harass someone because: they are short, or overweight, or from another country, or they talk funny, or they're old, or bald?

3. Compare and contrast the short story and the movie. (show major similarities and differences).

Use Microsoft Word. If you have time, get a G mail account (use your student username ie.john4321). Then you can upload to Google docs and share document with me.

CREATE-A-STORY

Using the YELLOW HANDOUT, in pairs, create an entertaining and suspenseful plan for a short story. Use the yellow sheet and then create a PowerPoint or a PREZI using pictures and point form to outline your story.


Present your story to Ms. Phillips and/or me.

Planning a Short Story- Wed and Thurs.

1. Show me your Evernote completed
2. Find definitions for METAPHOR, SIMILE, PERSONIFICATION
3. In pairs on WORD do a Plot Graph for your Short Story- see yellow handout.
4. Use powerpoint, or google docs, or PREZI to create a picture slide show of your story with point form notes.

FRIDAY

Hello Everyone,
I hope that you are well. 


A)  Let's start with a NEW NOTE in Evernote. Call it something like: ENGLISH DEFINITIONS. Let's find a good brief definition that you understand of the following terms:


1. IRONY             2.  SUSPENSE           3. THEME


Define each and give an example from "Luke Baldwin's Vow" or some other example that you know. Write your own note for this so that you will remember these definitions better.


B) Now, go to PREZI and try making a short PREZI briefly explaining each of the 6 stages of a short story. Use a famous story such as a fairy tale or other story to use as an example of each of the stages. Include a picture in each stage that best represents that stage.
Please comment on this post letting me know how it went and whether you completed the task or not.
Good job. Have a great weekend.


Mr. J.

Computers: Thursday and Friday

Hi Everyone,


Here's what I would like you to do today and tomorrow. We'll go back to the room for reading period because... IT IS GOOD FOR YOU.


1. Create an Evernote account. Watch the video for further understanding. Use your board email preferably. See me if you want to use another email.


2. Once you have a username and password, remember them, or write them down in a word document and keep in your school folder. I bet one of you will forget your username and you can't create a new account with the same email address. Prove me wrong. Find a way to track your usernames and passwords.


3. Create a notebook for English (and your other classes if you so desire)


4. Make a note that has the PLOT GRAPH in it. Use a chart. Make sure you know what the 6 terms of a PLOT GRAPH mean.


5. Next make a new note that supplies the link to this blog.


6. Make another note and put in the link to the Google Presentation called "Celebrate the Short Story"


7. Comment on this post by introducing yourself using your first name and initial and telling me how the above process went. Do you think this could be useful to you? Do you prefer this or using other methods for learning? Have you ever used online tools for GATHERING, ORGANIZING and PRESENTING information?


8. You'll be looking at DELICIOUS, PREZI, and DROPBOX later.


9. Extension. Find a great story or short film that would be good for us to possibly look at in class.


Mr. J.

Amazing Science: CERN -- True Story!!

LHC- Large Hadron Collider




Here is the most expensive scientific Laboratory in the history of the world, C.E.R.N. - see website here:
C.E.R.N. Researching how the universe began


Scientists are accelerating and smashing atomic particles and this activity may give them information on how our universe evolved. There are almost 8,000 scientists and engineers representing 600 universities and 113 nationalities.


The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies in a tunnel 600 feet under the ground and stretches in a circle 27 kilometres long (to Coldwater and back?)


And get this: it cost $9 billion! How is that for a story??!!  --  non-fiction


What's even better is scientists are using SOCIAL MEDIA to teach about CERN and give updates. Follow them on twitter @CERN


What other social media are they using?


The power of social media for learning what you want.

Welcome to Grade 10 English

What story is this?

We will be using some online resources in this course. If you live in the country and your internet is slow, that's alright because you will have time at school to access these resources.


The internet and Web 2.0 (beginning about 5 years ago) gives students some very special learning abilities never before experienced in history. 


Students can access the accumulated knowledge of humankind over the last few thousand years. Soon, the Library of Congress will be completely online and accessible (books about everything).


The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, housing millions of books, recordings, photos, maps, manuscripts. They just scanned their 25,000th book recently. They are free and available to anyone.


But it's not just about books. Social media has allowed students to interact with famous scientists, writers, politicians through Skype, Facebook, Twitter, etc.


We can also upload our own videos to Youtube etc. and become teachers ourselves. Offer walkthroughs of video games, or tell stories from your life and offer them to the world.


Not only could we read the novel, Crabbe,  but we could Skype the author, William Bell, and ask him a few questions. Or, we could follow an author on Twitter to see what he/she is writing or doing today.


After reading "Crabbe" we could research survival skills in the wilderness, which leads to my next point.


Another use of social media is gathering, organizing and presenting information that you are fascinated in. You will be doing this using some online tools:
(Again, if there are any circumstances that prevent you from doing this, see me.)


http://evernote.com/ A free online notebook for gathering info.


http://delicious.com/ For organizing your links to your information

http://prezi.com/ For presenting your information

Another great online resource is Dropbox. Save your documents in Dropbox and it becomes available everywhere you go- no need for memory stick of failed printer at home.


http://www.dropbox.com/

We will also use Google (Docs). Here is my Google Docs Presentation on Celebrating the Story

Celebrate the Story (Google Presentations)

Also, here is the PLOT GRAPH explaining the structure of a short story that I have on the board in class.
PLOT GRAPH