English 12 Block 1:
- Review your fiction notes for Thursday's fiction exam, or examine my old distance education notes:
- POV
- Plot
- Conflict
- Theme
- Symbolism
- Irony
- Characters
- Didactic Writing
- Literary Elements of UTROD
- Sample Story 1 - Quiz
- Sample Story 2 - Quiz
- In addition to the terms above, review the plot, characters and themes of the following short stories
- Boys and Girls
- Say Yes
- How much land does a man need?
- The Lottery
- Hills Like White Elephants
- The Story of an Hour
- Now you're ready! Complete the fiction exam crossword.
- Did you miss the editing exam? If so, see me ASAP!
- Review the following grammar pages:
- sentence fragments (and more)
- run-on sentences (and more)
- comma splices (and more)
- subject-verb agreement (and more)
- parallelism (and more)
- confusing words (and more)
- apostrophes (and more)
- colons and semicolons (and more)
- quotation marks (and more)
- pronouns (and more)
- Try Editing Quiz 1, Editing Quiz 2, Editing Quiz 3 and Editing Quiz 4.
English 9 Block 3 (Day 1):
- We'll finish our notes on Nelson Mandela on Friday.
- Review your notes on linking vs. action verbs.
- Here's Spelling #4. We'll write the actual quiz next week.
- 1. beginning
- 2. benevolent
- 3. believe
- 4. benefit
- 5. beneficial
- 6. biased
- 7. breathe
- 8. Britain
- 9. buried
- 10. business
- 11. calendar
- 12. carrying
- 13. casualties
- 14. ceiling
- 15. cemetery
- Paragraph!
- The good copy paragraph is now past due!
- Choose between the Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 rough copies and type up one good copy paragraph. Choose the one you have the most to write about.
- Use your Office 365 student account.
- 7-12 sentences / TS/BODY/CS
- One indent @ the beginning; no further line breaks
- Format: 12 or 14 size font; standard font type; 1. 5 spacing; title and full name at the top
- Aim for one actual, specific example per body point.
- Start each sentence with an article (A, An, The), introductory transition (e.g. In addition, However), or noun/pronoun. Do not start with For, Of, That, or with a word starting with an "ing".
- The good copy paragraph must be submitted in a "hard" copy. Don't send it via email!
- Did you miss the noun test?
English 9 Blocks 2 and 3 (Day 2):
- Review your notes on linking vs. action (or transitive) verbs.
- Here's Spelling #4. We'll write the actual quiz next week.
- 1. beginning
- 2. benevolent
- 3. believe
- 4. benefit
- 5. beneficial
- 6. biased
- 7. breathe
- 8. Britain
- 9. buried
- 10. business
- 11. calendar
- 12. carrying
- 13. casualties
- 14. ceiling
- 15. cemetery
- Paragraph!
- The good copy paragraph is now past due!
- Choose between the Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 rough copies and type up one good copy paragraph. Choose the one you have the most to write about.
- Use your Office 365 student account.
- 7-12 sentences / TS/BODY/CS
- One indent @ the beginning; no further line breaks
- Format: 12 or 14 size font; standard font type; 1. 5 spacing; title and full name at the top
- Aim for one actual, specific example per body point.
- Start each sentence with an article (A, An, The), introductory transition (e.g. In addition, However), or noun/pronoun. Do not start with For, Of, That, or with a word starting with an "ing".
- The good copy paragraph must be submitted in a "hard" copy. Don't send it via email!
- Did you miss the noun test?
Philosophy 12:
- Review your ethics notes for Thursday's ethics exam.
- What is ethics?
- Plato's and Aristotle's ethics
- Classical ethics (available in the textbook)
- Hedonism
- Cynicism
- Stoicism
- Spinozian ethics
- Christian ethics
- Indigenous ethics
- Utilitarianism
- Kantianism
- If you aren't done, finish all of the questions for Ethics 4 in full sentences.
- Here was yesterday's journal question:
- #9: A lawyer takes a solemn oath to defend the interests of his or her client. You must not suppress information either. If you were the lawyer, would you withhold information that implicates your client in a violent crime, even if you might be disbarred*?
- * kicked out of the legal profession
