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English 12 Blocks 1/2: Homework for Friday

The personal essay is due on Monday, Dec. 4!

Submit it via "Share" in Office 365.
Follow these formatting guidelines:

If not finished, complete an outline for one of the essay options we started with two weeks ago. Show it to me when you're done. Include two possible quotations. I will then collect this outline on Monday and use it while I mark your essay.

The personal essay is due on Monday, Dec. 4.

Make sure to get this week's notes on introductory and concluding paragraphs, clichés, brainstorming, essay structure , and complex writing:

Did you miss the editing test? Do you wish to re-do it one more time? See me ASAP!

Study your old editing quizzes, grammar notes, and handouts, as well as these websites:

Review these sites (one and two) on "subject and predicate".
Review these sites on sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Review these sites (one and two) on subject verb agreement.
Review this site on parallelism.
Review this site on confusing words.
Review this webpage on complex sentences.
Review this website on the apostrophe.
Review this website on the colon and semicolon.
Review this website on quotations.
Review this website on pronoun case.
Review this website on capitalization.
Review this website on tense shifts.
When you are finished your review, complete these online editing quizzes.

Brainstorm at least 10 ideas for each of the two personal essay topics you have chosen. Be as specific as possible!

Complete the 6 blended quotations assignment (Part B of the quotations exercise). Use two quotations for each of the 3 blending tactics.

Finish collecting three quotations each for the two essay topic you have chosen for the "personal composition" unit. 2 topics x 3 relevant quotations each = /6 marks

Philosophy 12 Block 3: Homework for Friday

If not done, finish your Question Notes:

Create two questions for each of the following two pages of the textbook:

119/120;
4 questions x 4 answers = 8 marks

Create two questions for each of the following four pages of the textbook:

114&115/116/117/118;
focus on the key ideas of each page; don't worry about being exhaustive;
for each question, provide an answer of 2-4 sentences;
8 questions x 8 answers = 16 marks

Complete the following journal entries if not finished:

13. If you could pass the rest of your life cared for in every way as you slumbered peacefully, entranced by wonderful dreams, would you do so?
12. If you could choose the sex and physical appearance of your soon-to-be-born child, would you do it? Why or why not? Would it make a difference if we were talking about diseases like Parkinson’s?
11. A close friend, Jane, asks – and genuinely wants – your opinion about something, but your opinion is one that she is likely to find quite painful. For example, Jane is an artist, and asks for your honest estimate of her chances of being successful. You think Jane is an atrocious artist who hasn’t the slightest chance of success. What would you do?
10. You are the captain of a 20-crew submarine that’s lying on the seabed. Its engines are destroyed. Rescue is three days away. There’s only enough air for five people over that three-day span. What do you decide? What’s the rationale for your decision?
9. Lawyers take a solemn oath to defend the interests of their clients. They 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?

English 11 Block 4 Linear: Friday

Get the notes on technology for the upcoming essay!

The first grammar test ("The Parts of the Sentence") is coming up on Thursday, Dec. 7. Start reviewing!