ENG 4U Seminar Assignment Handouts

February 23rd, 2010

Hello ENG 4U,

A number of students were away today so I am posting the main assignment sheets for the group seminar project that we will be working on from Wednesday – Friday in the library.  You will need to collect some of the extra handouts when you return to class as well.

Groups were chosen today – 3 people per group – and short stories were assigned to each group.  Please see Ms. Hill or Ms. Matthews if you are unsure what group you are in.

Seminar presentations will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.  Your “Quest” for the unit is on Friday, March 5th and your personal essay is due on that date as well.

Components of a Seminar

Revised Short Story Seminar

Short Story Seminar (ENG 12U)

Week 4 – ENG 4U1 – Matthews

February 21st, 2010

Hello ENG 4U students,

Here is your schedule for this week:

Monday:
- Reviewing the story “The Possibility of Evil”
- Review of MLA Format
- How to Create an Annotated Bibliography
- Looking at Literary Criticism for the short story and creating an annotation – Your annotation for this literary criticism is due on Wednesday.
Homework: Read “Bones” – it is in your textbook on p. 57.

Tuesday:
- Activities for “Bones”
- Introduction to the Short Story Seminar Project – choosing groups.

Wednesday:  Your Annotations of the Literary Criticism for “The Possibility of Evil” is due today!
- We will be in the library working on your short story seminars.

Thursday:
- We will be in the library working on your short story seminars.

Friday:
- We will be in the library working on your short story seminars.

Next Week:
Seminars will be presented and you will be having a quiz on all of the stories and terms learned!  Reminder – Your Personal Essay is due on Friday, March 5th!

Week 4 – ENG 2L1 – Matthews

February 21st, 2010

Hello ENG 2L students,

Here is our schedule for this week:

Monday:
- Tracking a sport – collect an article from today’s paper for your sport of choice.
- Finishing up Newspaper Terms
- Newspaper Article Writing – Re-writing an article from the point of view of an athlete.

Tuesday:
- Finishing your newspaper article and pasting it in your scrapbook
- Choosing another article for your sport of choice

Wednesday:
- Choosing another article for your sport of choice.
How to write an opinion piece – A letter to the editor based on an Olympic article you have read.

Thursday:
- Choosing another article for your sport of choice.
- Finishing your Letter to the Editor
- How to create a newspaper advertisement – An ad for the Olympics

Friday:
- Choosing another article for your sport of choice
- Getting caught up on any of the writing assignments for your scrapbook.
- Creating a title page for your scrapbook.

Next week: We will be finishing up our scrapbooks and reflecting on the Olympics. We will also be having a quiz on all of the skills and terms we have learned from our Non-Fiction / Olympic Unit. The Acceleration Unit will be introduced as well.

C.S.S Goes to Europe

February 17th, 2010

Victory in Europe

In May 2010, C.S.S. students and teachers will come together in the Netherlands to commemorate the 65th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day and Canada’s liberation of the Netherlands. read more

Parent Survey

February 16th, 2010

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Parent Involvement Committee invites all parents to complete an on-line survey. This is a survey about how parents prefer to communicate with schools and the school board, and asks about awareness of various parent involvement opportunities, such as in-school volunteering, school councils and the Parents’ Conference. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete and the results will be used by the Parent Involvement Committee to inform future decisions.

Please click here to go to the survey.

Week 3- ENG 2L1 – Matthews

February 12th, 2010

Hello ENG 2L,

Tuesday:
Reading – “The Skinny on Being a Newspaper Columnist”
Scrapbook assignment introduced
Newspaper Terms
Activity: For an article of your choice, identify the 5Ws + H
Completing a KWL chart for a speed skating article

Wednesday:
How to Write a Summary
Choose an Article and write a summary of that Article
Choosing an Olympic Sport to Track – start colleting articles

Thursday:
Writing a newspaper article from the athlete’s point of view
Continue to track the sport of your choice

Friday:
Classified Ad Activity – Creating an Ad for the Olympics

Friday:

Courtice Graduate to Compete in Olympics

February 10th, 2010

On Saturday, February 27, 2010, local snowboarder and Courtice Secondary graduate Matt Morison will be following his dreams – all  the way to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics! read more

Courtice Secondary School’s 50th Anniversary

February 9th, 2010

Preparations have already begun to celebrate Courtice Secondary School’s 50th anniversary. Our Anniversary is set for May 27th and 28th 2011. Now is your chance to get involved in the planning of this celebration.

An anniversary page is being set up where you can find the information pertaining to the event and all the planning that will take place.

check out the info page here

For now if you are interested in more information please contact the school or Lisa Kapuscinski by email Elizabeth_Kapuscinski@BMC.com

Week 2 – ENG 4U1 – Matthews

February 4th, 2010

Hello ENG 4U students,

Here is our schedule for this week:

Monday:
- How to Conduct a Close Reading
- Reading “The Mosquito”

Tuesday:  Taking up our close reading.

Literary Criticism

Views on Critics and Criticism p. 294 #1 and 2
Wednesday:
Reading “Bambinger

Review of Short Story Terms

Discussion of Characterization

Thursday:
Finishing Discussion of Bambinger

Working on a Character Sketch

Friday:
Reading “The Fly”

Symbolism and Context

Week 2 – ENG 2L1 – Matthews

February 4th, 2010

Hello ENG 2L students,

Here is our schedule for this week:

Monday:
Non-Fiction Unit begins – going over the structure of a newspaper article.
Reading- “Ghost Ship Mystery Deepens”
Paragraph Structure – Writing opinion paragraphs

Tuesday:
“The Mystery of the Mary Celeste”
- Completing notes on the Mary Celeste
- Graphic Organizers
- Venn Diagrams

Wednesday:
Introduction to the Olympic Newspaper Unit
- The parts of a newspaper

Thursday:
The History of the Olympics

Friday:
The Opening Ceremonies