Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Complete thesis question and thesis statement for chart.

Read the "hierarchy" article under the "their eyes" tab on the website.

All for Monday.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Some people still haven't sent me links to their blogs...

GRADE 12 Study BLOGS (so far...)

Please post, review, and comment:

Ridwaanah Ali -- http://2012englishexamprep.blogspot.com/
Radhika Bhargava --
Besma Chowdury --
Allen Duong -- 000747008ibenglish.blogspot.com
Kevin Gov --
Hebat Helal -- http://heba-eng4u7englishexampreparation.blogspot.com/
Jimmy Kim --
Brian Li -- http://eng4u7byhl.blogspot.com/
Emily McCormick -- http://yourstrulyemilyy.blogspot.com/
Ibrahim Mubarik -- http://www.Somanybookstoreadsolittletime.blogspot.com/
Sayada Nabi -- http://sayadanabi.blogspot.com/
Bilal Negash --
Alex Noort --
Ria Panjla -- http://ibenglishexamprep.blogspot.com/
Binita Patel -- http://www.ibenglishexam.blogspot.com/
Rebecca Pereira -- http://englishenglishbookprep.blogspot.com/
Rose Pham -- http://Rose-pham.blogspot.com/
Allen Puran -- http://allan1blog.blogspot.com/
Surya Qarin -- http://proofimdoingmywork.blogspot.com/
Haoran Qiu -- http://IPostShortShorts.blogspot.com/
Eddie Quan -- writingtingz.blogspot.com
Jeevan Sharma -- http://iamawaffle.blogspot.com/
Kirti Sharma -- http://kirtisharmadirtykarma.blogspot.com/
Khadeeja Syed -- http://khadeejas.blogspot.com/
Reza Syed -- http://beeftingz.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Tran -- ajourneytotheend.blogspot.com
Alexander Truong -- http://notesonibnovels.blogspot.com/
Charles Virtusio --
David Vo -- http://thenightstalk.blogspot.com/
Venu Priya Wadehra -- http://venupri.blogspot.com/
Farhan Yusuf -- http://yusuftalks.blogspot.com/


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Listen to the bad show on WNYC Radio Lab. (google it, it's a podcast). Blog about connections to The Wars).

World lit 2 cover page.

For world lit 1, leave out (2a,b,c)

Friday, February 3, 2012

100 ossington st.

Take Jane bus to Bloor subway station. Take Bloor subway east. Get off at Ossington. Take bus on ossington south. Get off at lower Ossington theatre. Ask bus driver. Should take an hour from Weston. Be there at 7pm.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

IOC Schedule

THURSDAY
11:40 AM Sayada
12:00 PM Eddie
12:20 PM Jeevan
12:40 PM Ria
1:00 PM Brian
1:20 PM surya
1:40 PM rebecca
2:00 PM Venu
2:20 PM Emily
2:40 PM Binita
3:00 PM BJ
3:20 PM Jimmy

FRIDAY
8:20 AM Reza
8:40 AM radikha
9:00 AM Allen
9:20 AM Bilal
9:40 AM Ibrahim
10:00 AM Farhan
10:20 AM Hoaran
10:40 AM Besma
11:00 AM Kirti
11:20 AM Alex N.
11:40 AM Alex
1:00 PM Hebat
1:20 PM Kadeeja
1:40 PM Stephanie
2:00 PM Ridwaanah
2:20 PM Rose
2:40 PM Kevin Gov
3:00 PM Charles
3:20 PM David Vo

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Monday, November 28, 2011

For next class:

Finish graphic organizers for thesis statements.
Students assigned "M" wear red and argue Svid as a monster.
Students assigned "V" wear blue and argue Svid as a victim.

Look up terms form character analysis.

Come prepared to debate.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Finish part 1. Answer two of the questions on the crime and punishment tab on our website. Typed up, doubled spaced.

In addition, prepare a handout for your mini seminar next class. You will need to submit your handout to me as well as your group members. You will have 5 minutes to speak to your group.

Class starts at 8:30am. No exceptions.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Just in case you are wondering where to find the character list for c&p, it's on the c&p page on our class website:

Www.ibenglish.weebly.com

Print it off. Cut it out. Paste it on. Like kindergarten. No excuses.

Due next class:

Your typed up "pathos paragraph" on your inspired bedroom.

Your crime and punishment Bristol board presentation.

Friday, October 14, 2011

The NEW big three:

What is the initial argument/thesis statement?

What is the strongest support offered?

How has the thesis statement/argument changed by the end?

FULL circle

1. Explain your understanding of the thesis statement now?

2. What was the most impacting statement or argument for you?

3. How has your opinion of your article/Plath changed?

Monday, October 3, 2011

Read journal article on Bee series and on Holocaust. Download five Bee poems. Download Daddy. They are listed under the collected works of sylvia Plath link.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Write your sacred story as discussed in class. The sacred story arrives from a filtering of the mundane stories as constructed by Stephen Crites. Due next class.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Also, in your green booklet (SIBTOC), review exam questions on Pg. 39 and begin to fill in the chart on Pg. 123.
Begin reading Such A Long Journey. Follow the reading schedule on the calendar you got in class. If you don't have a text try and track one down from a student in ms. Wittlin's class.

Lunch time film screening on Monday.

Presentations all due on Tuesday.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Read the article on our class website under the "Their Eyes Were Watching God" tab called The Hierarchy Itself. Print it out, highlight it and make noted in the margins.

Due next class.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

World lit 2. That's all I have to say.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

DATE

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

9:00am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Daniel

Dian

9:25am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Alicia P.

Maged

9:50am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Manuel

Marzouk

10:15am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Kelly

Kaushik

10:40am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Gokulan

Manjodh

11:05am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Alicia

Laxsan

11:30am

NO IOC

NO IOC

Disha

Prajakta

11:55am

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

1:00pm

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

1:05pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Joel

Vivek

1:30pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

LI

Diana

1:55pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Gunjan

Jananan

2:20pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Dhariya

Nina

2:45pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Hannah

Karina

3:10pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Shanjeevan

Juana

4:15pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Tanzim

Possible IOC

4:40pm

NO IOC

NO IOC

Rishi

Possible IOC

5:30pm

NO IOC

Emil

Possible IOC

Possible IOC

6:00pm

NO IOC

Mownika

Possible IOC

Possible IOC

6:25pm

NO IOC

Joti

Possible IOC

Possible IOC

6:50pm

NO IOC

Mitali

Possible IOC

Possible IOC

IOC Presentation Schedule

 

*Keep in mind if you are late, you must wait for the end of the IOC's for that day

 



Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

IOC study sessions

Wed lunch - Atwood
Wed after school - Plath
Thurs lunch - Macbeth
Thurs after school - king Lear
Fri lunch - song of Solomon

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

This photo is my reminder to avoid hypothetical ethical dilemmas in future classes...however, don't forget your revised criteria for tomorrow. And remind me to review "democratic process" tomorrow. Something tells me we need a refresher.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Read to the end of chapter 2 of Crime & Punishment.

Atwood

Song of Solomon

Macbeth

Plath

Lear

Faulty Heart

"Baked  Alaska"

"Give him tending"

Ariel

[Enter Kent]

Procedures Underground

"Milkman held himself"

"Dagger soliloquy

Spinster

I pray you father

Animals in Country

"Strange Woman"

So foul/ fair

Balloons

Look sir, I bleed

Orpheus

"Milkman lay"

Deeds not thought

Mirror

What need one

Tourist Centre

"Corinthians"

Drunk

In Plaster

Thou, Nature

Rat Song

"I want tea"

 

Two Sisters of Persephone

To Thee and thine

 

"What do you call a lecture"

 

 

Peace, Kent

 

"Lena cool it"

 

 

Where have you hid

 

"We'll see now"

 

 

Then let them anatomize

 

 

 

 

Before a hovel on a heath

Commentary List 

 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Friday: mock IOC on king Lear passages.
Next Tuesday: final world lit due.
Hand in any additional writing (ie. No country for old men)

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Complete article on King Lear, prepare handout in work groups and photocopy 33 copies for next class.

Friday, October 8, 2010

No Country Assignment: due next week after we finish the film. You can rent and watch the rest of the film this weekend if you want to get ahead.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Read the rest of Act 1 of King Lear (scenes 1-5). Take notes in preparation of responding to the questions raised from the Leggat article. Choose three questions to answer formally - each question should be answered using direct references from the play. Each question is out of 6 marks each.

Due next class (Friday).

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Create graphic flowchart of King Lear character.

Friday, September 17, 2010

The Divided Self journal is #15 (Mind over Myth). Sorry for any confusion!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

- print off "sow", "in plaster" and "purdah" for next class. (on the website above the Plath video there is a link to a site that lists all Plath poems.)
- read Divided Self article (I really think you'll enjoy it! Really.)

- We'll be finishing the other domestic poems next class.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

- you have been given one poem per group (Hannah is with Dian and maged).
- you will be presenting for ten minutes as a group and marked the same way you would be marked for and IOC (see rubric in Green booklet) with one addition group mark section (where you distribute marks among group members).
- you will be given an overhead to use in class.
-please print off the file on the Plath tab on our class website ( all the poems we are using with this article) so that you can take notes while people are talking.
Summary for Plath Striptease article from Hannah's group:



"This particular journal article deals with the confessional aspects of the poetry of Sylvia Plath, and how the figuratively naked aspects of her poetry differ from her male contemporaries. Because historically fiction - and society - have celebrated the male naked form as a liberating symbol, and have portrayed the woman's body as vulnerable to attack and inviting to rape, a woman finds no freedom in her exposed form. The article posits the idea that because of these conceptions, which Sylvia Plath could not avoid when writing as a woman among men, she wrote as though her inherent female bodily qualities inhibited her artistry and are insufficient to identify herself as a respectable poet. She thus had to write as a man would to express her conflict as a poet possessing a woman's body, evensofar as to illustrate her own skewed ability to rape, so as to avoid being a representation of her faulty sex. As a female confessional poet, rather than as a man, she wrote as though the frustrating reality that was her femininity was paradoxically something to overcome and also an ultimately unavoidable situation as a victim, creatd by a language and culture she wrote in."

Saturday, September 11, 2010

- read Viciousness in the Kitchen.
- you can also read ahead by reading Divided Self.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

If you are still reading through the Plath article (which, by the way, is a little longer than 13 pages) and you are curious to read some of the referenced poems, I have a link to an online database of all of Plath's works on my website.

Enjoy the article; it is a meaty one!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

- read Sylvia Plath journal #10. Take notes and summarize in 5 sentences.
- bring Workd Lit #1 with corrections to class. I will keep them on file.

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