Throughout the Course

Writing

In the topics below you will be asked to do different writing projects to submit. Your teacher will give you feedback and direction in the following areas.

Writing Strategies

• Gather information and summarize ideas.
• Know your purpose and audience.
• Analyze good writing and develop criteria to help you write well.

Drafting/Composing strategies

• Use lots of sources for informational writing.
• Organize ideas before writing in lists, outlines or graphic organizers.
• Writing initial drafts and proof read to improve them.

Revising, editing and publishing work

• Check that your writing accomplishes your intentions and aims.
• Proofread and revise until the work is error free.
• Create neat, polished and professional final pieces.

Reading Log

Keep a reading log in which your record of all reading you do throughout the year. This can be reading for other subjects or events as well.

See booklist for ideas when selecting texts.

Employ the following literacy activities/questions before, during and after the reading two of the following texts. Add text titles on a student to student basis. Reading may be done in conjunction with other subjects.

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Before reading:

• List your prior knowledge of this book/chapter/verses.
• Research the author, writing form and time period.
• What is the context of this writing?
• Predict, based on your research above, what you think this reading is going to be about.

During reading:

• What is happening?
• What do you think is going to happen?
• What questions do you have mid way through?
• Discuss any uncertainties or confusions.

After Reading:

• What happened? What was this about?
• Was the outcome as you predicted?
• How did the style of writing help or hinder the message?
• In one sentence summarize the main point of this writing.

Items to turn in

For each novel, speech you read complete one of the following writing activities and email to your teacher when completed.

• Research the author and present a Biography of their lives and writing. Pay special attention to why they wrote this particular work.
• Research the time period and events this writing focuses on. Create an introduction that sets the scene for what is about to be read.
• Create a personal response to what you have read. How did it make you feel? How did it make you want to act? What have you learned from your reading.
• Create a prequel or sequel chapter to this book.
• Simplify the main point or moral of the story into a poem. (See the Sample link in the learning plan column for more ideas.)

Weekly (semester course) or Bi-Weekly (year long course) Assignments

GP - 1,2 - send scan of pg 6

FD - Introduction pg 13-19, lesson 1, 2, 3 - Submit lesson scores or anecdotal comments for your work in the Fallacy Detective each week.

GP - 3, 4 - send scan of pg 10

FD - Lesson 4, 5, 6, 7

Writing Prompt:

Introduce yourself! Write a 1-2 page autobiography introducing yourself. This may include personal characteristics, hobbies, learning styles, goals and ambitions.

Gp - 5, 6 - send scan of pg 14, 15

FD - 8, 9, 10, 11

Take Grammar Mastery Test 

GP - 7, 8

FD - 12, 13, 14, 15

Writing Prompt:

In GP you have explored Metaphors and Similies. Write a page/paragraph that is full of Metaphors and Similies. Some topics you could choose from to focus your paragraph around are:

Winter - Pets - Drawbridges - Siblings

GP - 9, 10 - send scan of pg 20, 23

FD - 17, 18, 19, 20

GP - 11, 12 - send scan of pg 24

FD - 21, 22, 23, 24

Writing Prompt:

Read the following poem and use it to answer the following writing prompt:

King Cotton by Horatio Alger Jr.

In paragraph form and making reference to the poem King Cotton discuss the personification of the cotton.

GP - 13, 14 - send scan of pg 30

FD - 25, 26, 27, 28

GP - 15, 16 - send scans of pg 32 and 34

FD - 29, 30 , 31, 32

Submit your Reading Log

Writing Prompt:

In order to be fully prepared for you provincial exam begin creating a definition journal of the key terms you need to be familiar with. Go to this link and download the Terms and Devices PDF. In a notebook begin recording the meaning and definitions of these words. You can find some of these definitions at the Pathways Academy website at this link . You can also explore the internet for definitions (Or ask your teacher for clarification). Aim to do between 5-10 a week. You will be asked to submit this journal at the end of the course.

GP - 17, 18 - send scans of pg 35, 36

FD - 33, 34, 35, 36

Writing Prompt:

Read the short story Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy.

In a multi-paragraph essay form with reference to Three Questions discuss the character of the Hermit

or

In a multi-paragraph essay form with reference to Three Questions discuss theme of this short story.

continue working on Definition Journal.

GP - 19, 20 - send scans of pg 39

Writing Prompt:

Write a summary of what you learned in the Fallacy Detective including:
- The valuable lessons I learned from this book were....
- I will use the lessons I learned from this book in the following ways....
- I would recommend this book to a friend for the following reasons ....

Continue working on Definition Journal.

GP - 21, 22 - send scans of pg 41 and 42

Begin in depth Novel Study - Add Book Title 

Continue working on Definition Journal.

Writing Prompt:

Research the author of your Novel. This week write a short newspaper article about him/her from what you learned.

Gp - 23, 24 send scans of pg 44, the additional poem you wrote and pg 45

Continue Reading Novel

Continue working on Definition Journal.

Writing Prompt:

Take a practice provincial exam and email your results of the multiple choice, and sample essays to your teacher for feedback.

This link will take you to a practice exam. Follow the prompts on the page and be sure to download the sample exam and answer key. Please mark the multiple choice questions.

GP - 25, 26 send scans of pg 48 and 49

Continue working on Definition Journal.

Writing Prompt:

Finish Novel Study and Turn in.

GP - 27, 28 - send scans of pg 51

Continue working on Definition Journal.

Writing Prompt:

Write a Formal Letter to the author of your novel attempting to persuade him/her to change something about the book. Be sure to support your persuasive argument with either:

Sound Logic (no Fallacies)

or

Fallacies and deceptive logic

GP - 29, 30 - send scans of pg 54 and 55

Continue working on Definition Journal.

Writing Prompt:

Take a second practice provincial exam and email your results of the multiple choice, and sample essays to your teacher for feedback.

This link will take you to a practice exam. Follow the prompts on the page and be sure to download the sample exam and answer key. Please mark the multiple choice questions.

Complete Final Exam in GP and send scans.

Submit your Reading Log and Definitions Journal.

Continue to prepare for the Provincial Exam.