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Welcome to ENG3C

Welcome to ENG3C. Ms Davis. ENG3C. The pre-requisite is ENG2P or ENG2D This course prepares you for ENG4C, which is a requirement for college. Please speak to a guidance counsellor if university is your goal.

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Welcome to ENG3C

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  1. Welcome to ENG3C Ms Davis

  2. ENG3C • The pre-requisite is ENG2P or ENG2D • This course prepares you for ENG4C, which is a requirement for college. Please speak to a guidance counsellor if university is your goal. • It is assumed that students in this class are fluent in English. There will be some grammar lessons, but the focus is on independent thought and analysis.

  3. Course Outline • This course emphasizes the consolidation of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyse a variety of informational and graphic texts, as well as literary texts from various countries and cultures, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms for practical and academic purposes. An important focus will be on using language with precision and clarity and developing greater control in writing. The course is intended to prepare students for college or the workplace.

  4. Course Work

  5. Other Course Work • Business Writing– formal letter, incident report. • Writing conventions lessons • Various formative assignments

  6. Introductions • What is the strongest thing in the world?

  7. Think/ Pair/ Share -- think about what you think is the strongest thing in the world. -- pair with someone to talk about it -- share with the class your partner’s name and what he or she thinks is the strongest thing in the world.

  8. Our Class • Leonie, Marsha, Raj, Wayne: Love (gives you strength to accomplish things) • Wayne, Aaron: Ant (pound to pound) Whale (largest animal) • Jonathan, Ana, Samantha– spider silk the brain(resilience, power to do things) • Mark, Jermoll, Adam, Nikolay– communication • Troy, Nancy, Andrew, David– humanity (what we strive for, we accomplish) • Rob, Salman, Chris, Mat– Hemp (renewable, useful– many purposes) • Syeda, Sidra, Shemeka, Andre, Marcus– technology

  9. Universal Question of the course Happiness What does it mean to live a happy life?

  10. Criteria • What we use to evaluate things and make decisions— • (criterion = one) • For example– • A hammer is stronger than rubber if your criterion for strength is putting a nail in the wall. • Rubber is stronger than a hammer if your criterion for strength is being hard to break.

  11. Is ice cream a good breakfast?

  12. Is a Ferrari a good car?

  13. Criteria for being an A student Attending class Study hard Be on time Organized Completing assignments Ask questions if you don’t understand

  14. Strands

  15. Summative • 15%-- exam– a sight passage like the short story test, and an essay connecting it to the major course works. • 15%-- Portfolio

  16. Group Agreements • Being an English class, this needs to be an environment where everyone can: • Read and work independently • Share ideas • Listen • What agreements do we need to have so that this is a comfortable, pleasant, and productive place for everyone to work?

  17. The children worked long and hard on their little cardboard shack.It was to be a special spot---a clubhouse, where they could meet together, play, and have fun.Since a clubhouse has to have rules, they came up with three:

  18. Nobody act big.Nobody act small.Everybody act medium.

  19. What does that mean? • With your group, write what this looks like in a class

  20. In other words… • Recognize that you are important– you have experiences and ideas others can learn from. You have given things up and worked hard to get here, and so, you deserve to get the most out of this learning opportunity. • Your classmates are also important– they have things to teach you and they deserve to get the most out of this learning opportunity.

  21. How to do well in English class

  22. As in every class: • Act responsibly. Your teacher will make many efforts to help you learn but no one can make you learn. Bring your pen, paper, binder and textbook. Be pro-active when you have a problem by problem-solving and asking for help.

  23. Come to class. Ideas are built upon each other in a course like bricks in a building and when a brick is missing, the building isn’t stable. If you must miss a class, see the teacher ahead of time, ask a classmate to take notes, and make sure you get missed work, ideas, and information.

  24. Be brave. Learning is hard: you don’t learn unless you are challenged, and being challenged means you will make mistakes. The brain is like a muscle. • You have wisdom and experiences worth sharing. • If you have a question because you tried your best to understand and want to understand better, asking it will contribute to the discussion, and chances are someone else was too shy to ask the same thing. • Don’t cheat: you have ideas— think them and submit your own work. • Have faith in yourself– you’ve come a long way way.

  25. Be humble. Everyone else has wisdom, too. Opening your mind to new ideas and examining your own ideas is essential for learning. Be patient with others when they understand more slowly than you and encourage them to do their own work and develop their own ideas.

  26. Be honest with yourself • Only you know what happened on your previous attempts to finish high school. • “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein.)

  27. Respect this as a learning opportunity. Your time is valuable to you. Other people’s time is valuable to them. Help yourself do your best and help them make the best of their time. The purpose of group work is to make the work more interesting, let you learn from each other, and learn from teaching others.

  28. Focus. All of the science indicates that the brain is very bad at multi-tasking. Doing other things while studying/reading/writing means you will spend a lot of time without getting much accomplished or achieving high quality. • Put your cellphone away during class to give yourself the best opportunity to learn. • It is impolite to answer a call in class. • Your instructor and classmates cannot be expected to repeat instructions because you were distracted by your cellphone.

  29. In English class in particular: • Read.You cannot do well if you haven’t read the texts (novel, play, etc.) carefully yourself. • Cole’s Notes and Spark Notes are not replacements for reading and thinking and are not recommended. You could fail the course if you hand them in as your own work. • Reading for pleasure is the best way to improve your vocabulary and grammar.

  30. Use reading strategies. Ask yourself questions when you read to be sure you understand and are making connections. Look deeper into the meaning of the text. Take notes when you read (Ms Davis will tell you how to do this).

  31. Read the question, the assignment, and the rubric carefully.Be sure you know how your work will be evaluated. •  Reading the question shows your reading comprehension.

  32. Make meaningful connections.You don’t have to share your deepest secrets, but you do have to show that you can apply the ideas in the text to what you already know. You’re having a conversation with the writer and other readers: show them that you have thought about it and have interesting insights into it.

  33. Use the writing process: • Even professional writers brainstorm, plan, revise, and proofread. • Without brainstorming, a paper only gives obvious and boring ideas. • Without planning, a paper is disorganized, confusing, and not convincing. • Without revising and proofreading, it is messy and hard to read. • Your ideas deserve clear thought and careful expression.

  34. Isn’t English all subjective? • People often complain that English isn’t like other subjects because it is subjective. • But a good paper is a good paper, and English teachers can recognize that. • There are many criteria for good writing and presentations. • There are many reasonable answers to deep questions. • However, some ideas are very hard to support convincingly.

  35. Have Fun • Your teacher will give you choice and open-ended questions. • Pick issues that are important to you and will help you grow as a thinker.

  36. Ice Breaker • In all storytelling, fictional or non-fictional, the writer has to pick some details and leave others out. • Think: • Individually, write down the first words you think of to describe the person in this picture:

  37. Pair • Share your words with a partner.

  38. Pair • Were your partner’s words different than yours? • Poor • Going through a hard time • Worried about her kids • Worried about what she’s going to eat/ sleep • Dirty, stinky • Miserable • Sad • Depressed • Struggling

  39. Share • Share your words with the class.

  40. Findings • What factors went into the words we chose? • Our experiences • Our values

  41. The Essential Me

  42. The Essential Me Write a very short autobiography (one sentence, less than ten words). Obviously, there are a lot of things you have to choose to keep out.

  43. 6 Word Memoirs • www.oprah.com/omagazine/Six-Word-Memoirs-O-Magazine-Mini-Memoirs/

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