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Fri. Sept. 23rd 2022 – Savithu
Hi Savithu,
Welcome! Today’s class will be more of an introduction lesson. I will get to know you a little bit more and you will get to understand my expectations from you throughout the school year.
Thing to Keep in Mind:
Your Culminating Assignment will be a:
Your Culminating activity requires you to create a documentary about you:
- Your past (where you were),
- Your present (where you are now), and
- Your future (where you are going).
You will have multiple opportunities to reflect on aspects on your life (past, present, and future), through making notes, writing paragraphs, completing charts, and other related tasks. You will then add these artifacts into your Memory Box.
When you begin planning your documentary, the items in your Memory Box will help you generate ideas as well as help you create your final product.
Independent Novel Portfolio
- In this class, you will select a novel to read independently and keep an Independent Novel Portfolio.
- Your Independent Novel Portfolio can be electronic or on paper. If it is on paper, you must be able to create a digital version for submission
Here’s what it will look like:
- By the end of Unit 1, you will have read the first-third of your novel and will hand in your Independent Novel Portfolio with at least four entries for feedback.
- By the end of Unit 2, you will have finished reading two-thirds of your novel. You will have added at least four more entries to your Independent Reading Portfolio.
- By the end of Unit 3, you will have finished reading your novel. You will have added at least four more entries to complete your Independent Novel Portfolio.
You will hand in the following for feeedback:
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- Your complete Independent Novel Portfolio (12 entries)
- You will be selecting 5 items from your portfolio for a grade
- You will write a reflection explaining why you selected the five items and how they demonstrate your growth as a reader.
Instructions and prompts about your Independent Novel Portfolio can be found in each learning activity.
Your first task before you go on is to select a novel that you will be reading throughout the course.
You will be setting your own pace for reading, but keep the following targets in mind:
- finish the first third of your novel before you start Unit 2
- finish the second third of your novel before you start Unit 3
- complete your novel completely before you begin to work on your Culminating project in Unit 4.
Below you will find the 14 novels on the approved Reading List for you to choose from BUT you can choose ANYTHING you wish too.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Daybreak by Brian Ralph
Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Feed M.T. Anderson
I Am Number 4 by Pittacus Lore
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock by Drew Hayden Taylor
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Robertson and Scott Henderson
Unit 1: Stories
Short stories are a great place to start your learning journey for this course.
In this unit, you will be exploring short stories that are either from the past or reflect on the past. In both cases, you will be challenging yourself to think about how these stories affect you and what you can learn from the writer.
How to Write Well?!
Video Link Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9Av-TzSV4&ab_channel=BigThink
The Process of Writing Fiction with Margret Atwood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX8xzaW75AM&ab_channel=UniversityofAlberta
Active Reading Strategies
- Make a prediction
- Question the text
- Summarize key ideas
- Monitor and clarify your understanding
- Visualize the text
Reading skills and strategies can be learned by explicitly practicing them. Review some of the ways you can actively engage in reading below.
To be an effective reader, use a variety of strategies before, during, and after reading to better understand what you read.
Before reading, you might
- use prior knowledge to think about the topic
- make predictions about the probable meaning of the text
- preview the text by skimming and scanning to get a sense of the overall meaning
During reading, you might
- monitor understanding by questioning, thinking about, and reflecting on the ideas and information in the text
After reading, you might
- reflect upon the ideas and information in the text
- relate what you have read to your own experiences and knowledge
- clarify their understanding of the text
- extend their understanding in critical and creative ways
Read This Short Story: https://courseware-openhouse.ilc.org/eng1d_html/assets/locker_docs/eng1d_01_the_awful_fate_of_melpome.pdf
It has a connection to what……?!
Memory Box
Answer the following questions and save in your Memory Box.
- How will understanding and using different reading strategies benefit you as a reader?
- Setting goals is an important part of learning. Think about your strengths and challenges as a reader and identify one or more areas where you want to see improvement.
Some possible areas to consider:- Reading enjoyment (how can I increase my reading enjoyment?)
- Reading speed (how can I become a faster reader?)
- Reading comprehension (how can I increase my understanding of what I am reading?)
- Reading stamina (how can I increase the length of time I spend reading?)
- Reading variety (how can I increase the variety of things I like to read?)
- List some steps you can take to start to see improvement (for example, I always read blogs and follow people on Instagram; I will increase the variety of things I read, I will try and read a different online newspaper each week).