Monday, December 13th - Compositions

1) Silent Reading

2) Provincial Exam Composition Topics

• Handout
• Groups of Two - look at student responses and grade according to the six point scale.
• Whole Class - discuss scores and rationale and strategy

3) HOMEWORK: Composition Topics - Choose one and write a multi-paragraph narrative or essay in response. Shakespeare, were he alive today, would most certainly be working for the BC Ministry of education writing composition topics. Check it out:

"This above all: to thine own self be true" Polonious to Laertes (1.2)

or
 
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" Hamlet speaking of his mother (1.2)
 
or
 
"Brevity is the soul of wit" Polonious (2.2)
 
or
 
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (2.2)

4) Hamlet Viewing

Savage Chickens on Hamlet

Wednesday, December 8th

1) Silent Reading and Sign Up for Friday Pajama Poetry Cafe

2) Provincial Exam - Overview - Basic Introduction

BC Exam Website - English 12 Exam Specifications

3) Hamlet Viewing

• What did we watch last time? - Act 1 - scene 1 and 2 - quiz
• Watch the next two or three scenes. Quiz tomorrow before we go to library to finish poetry work.