En. 10 Term 3

Alternate Makeup Assignments

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The following are alternate assignments for those who currently have a zero in the gradebook for the following Term 3 assignments:
  1. Lenses
  2. Another Evening at the Club
  3. Belonging to the Dragon
  4. Grace Period
  5. The Way up to Heaven
  6. Maus II Study Guide
  7. Maus II Exam Alternate
To download the assignments above, click on the link to open the document in a new browser window. Make sure you download the assignment to your computer before you start working on it! Go to File>Save As>Download a Copy.
  • No other makeup assignments are available. Older assignments and tests from the beginning of the term should have been completed well before spring break. However, you can improve your mark with the bonus assignments below.
  • To return these paragraphs or essays, you have a couple of options:
    • You can type up your own document and send me the result via email or Office 365.
    • You can print out the documents and hand write your answer. Then you can send a high quality photo to me or, even better, use your scanner to create a pdf document. (Most scanners will do this for you.)
  • In all cases, plagiarism will not be acceptable! (Well, as we've discussed, except for the topic sentence.) I'll be filtering student work through Google!
  • The assignments are due by Tuesday, April 28.


Term 3 Bonus Assignments


Okay keeners! Here they are! 😂

I've always been opposed to bonus work. Your mark should reflect the quality of your work, not its quantity. That said, because of these difficult times, and because some assignments and tests simply can't be replicated, I'm offering the following bonus assignments. You can do one or both; it's up to you. Each will be worth 3% of the term, for a maximum of 6%. Quality will still be the key component, and all work will be graded on the six point scale. Completion, in other words, does not mean an automatic 6% improvement.

A. Formal Writing: In the first bonus assignment, read two texts. The first is a short poem by Sara Teasdale and the second is a short story by Ray Bradbury. Hmmm, they share the same title!

  1. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale
    • Want some analysis of the poem? Take a look here.
  2. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

Once you have read the poem and the short story, and you feel confident with their meanings, answer any two of three questions below in proper paragraph form. (Multi-paragraph essays with line breaks will not be marked.) Create your own Word document and send it to me via email attachment.

a. What do the two texts have in common? Put another way, why did Bradbury use Teasdale's poem and its title? [Provide a topic sentence, three or four specific examples,  a concluding sentence, two or three transitions and, for extra consideration, one or two quotations.]
b. What is different between the two texts? [Provide a topic sentence, three or four specific examples,  a concluding sentence, two or three transitions and, for extra consideration, one or two quotations.]
c. Explain Bradbury's use of personification. [Provide a topic sentence, three or four specific examples,  a concluding sentence, two or three transitions and, for extra consideration, one or two quotations.]
  • To return these paragraphs, you have a couple of options: 
    • You can type up your own document and send me the result via email or Office 365
    • Alternatively, you can send a high quality photo to me or, even better, use your scanner to create a pdf document. (Most scanners will do this for you. Try it!) 
    • In all cases, plagiarism will not be acceptable! (Well, as we've discussed, except for the topic sentence.) I'll be filtering student work through Google! 
  • The assignments are due by Tuesday, April 28. 
  • For an introduction on blending quotations, watch here
  • For an introduction on blending quotations, watch here
  • Here is a good primer on quotations.


B. Personal Writing: Log in to your English 11 Microsoft Team and head to the Term 3 Bonus Room! In a full and proper paragraph each, respond to two of the topics below. Post your responses in the Term 3 Bonus Room!
  1. What have you learned (especially in terms of values or "what matters") in the last month? In other words, what do you know now that you didn't know before? Explain!
  2. What has changed in your life since this pandemic began? Explain!
  3. What do you miss most about school? Give me at least three examples.
  4. "_____________ is the best TV series/movie/book I have ever watched/read." Defend!

Pssst! I'm open to suggestions regarding topics! 😉

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Please avoid starting sentences with passive words like "Being" or "Having", or introducing quotations with "says" or "said".

The assignments are due by Tuesday, April 28.




Getting a Head Start on Term 4

Teachers have been asked to avoid mandatory assignments until Term 4 (i.e. May 1), but the first major assignment for Term 4 will be a novel study. You will reading the great sci-fi dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451. If you do not have your own paper copy, it does come in the epub, Kindle and pdf formats. Epub is to books what mp3 is to music. All desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets and e-readers (except for Kindle) offer free epub reader apps. Text size can be altered in an epub, unlike pdf files.

You can read the book in a browser or, better yet, download the book, open it in a free epub, Kindle or pdf reader, and get a head start for Term 4:
This is the best I can do. As of now, students are not allowed to come to school to sign out books! If you prefer a paper copy, Fahrenheit 451 is for sale on Amazon.ca.