Write a summary and comment about today’s story ” The tortoises’ picnic.
Use your APA template to write the summary and your response to the story, and upload it to Manaba in the assignment section.
If you agree to let your classmates read your response, copy it into the forum. (If you don’t want your classmates to read your response, don’t post it in the forum but only with your summary.)
Today’s class
Were you able to see my two files (*.htm and *.rtf) with my corrections and comments to your writing? Were they useful to you? (If you were absent from class today, please email me your answer to this question.)
Release forms from students for
this class
for public use (including publication)
Academic writing rules:
Avoid non-academic language (conversational English, contractions like “don’t”, “isn’t”, etc.)
Don’t begin new sentences with “And”, “But” or “Because” but instead keep them as part of the same sentence.
One paragraph, one topic. New topic, new paragraphs. Keep sentences about the same topic together.
Would you like to continue reading classmates’ comments to stories?
Would you like to read your classmates’ summaries?
Would you like to read Sheffner’s comments and corrections to classmates’ writing?
Read the next story “The Tortoises’ Picnic” and the author’s comment. Check the vocabulary and meaning.
Write up your notes about the “Dark Ages”, the Anglo-Saxon times. Upload to Manaba by Wednesday midnight as usual. Try to use your new APA Template. You should include:
When the Anglo-Saxons came,
Where they came from
Why they came
Where they came and settled (talk about and explain Wessex, Sussex and Essex)
what language they spoke
A brief introduction to King Arthur and his legend
The Viking/Danish invasions (when, where from, where to)
King Alfred the Great (who he was, when he lived, what he did that was famous, why he is called “the Great”).
If possible, use your template you made last week with APA formatting.
Today’s class
Were you able to see my two files (*.htm and *.rtf) with my corrections and comments to your writing? Were they useful to you? (If you were absent from class today, please email me your answer to this question.)
Release forms from students for
this class
for public use (including publication)
Academic writing rules:
Avoid non-academic language (conversational English, contractions like “don’t”, “isn’t”, etc.)
Don’t begin new sentences with “And”, “But” or “Because” but instead keep them as part of the same sentence.
One paragraph, one topic. New topic, new paragraphs. Keep sentences about the same topic together.
They spoke Anglo-Saxon (not Celtic, not Latin), which is also called Old English.
Here is part of an Anglo-Saxon poem called the Battle of Maldon which was a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings (Danes) which took place in 911 A.D. (The Vikings won!) Can you recognize any modern English words in this Old English text?
the monk Bede and his History of the English Church (written in Latin of course because Bede was a monk) and later translated into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred.
Read Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and compare the story of temptation with the temptation story in chapter 13 of “The Magician’s Nephew”. What similarites and differences do you notice? What other things do you notice?
Finish today’s class questions (see below)
Today’s class
Some common writing errors.
Most errors are errors of logic or rhetoric, not of grammar.
Questions about chapter 13:
What is written on the gates to the garden?
What does it mean?
Why does Digory enter the garden alone?
When does Digory see the bird? What effect does this have on him?
How does the Witch tempt Digory and what does she want?
Why does she not succeed?
Individual conferencing with students about their writing.
Read chapter 4 of ITHOTR and write something in response. Download it here: ITHOTR_MS_Simplified_ch4
Continue with your independent study and start preparing your November presentation. All students must do one presentation by the end of this month. (Nov. 24th). There are only two classes left (10th & 24th).
Today’s class
Mini-lecture about the earliest inhabitants of the Americas.
Student writing about the earliest inhabitants, based on maps and information presented by Sheffner.
Who were the first people who lived in the Americas?
What were the names of some of the tribes?
Where did they come from and how?
What food and/or plants originated in the Americas?
Overview and summary of chapter 3 of ITHOTR.
BONUS: Who built Machu Picchu? Watch this video. Ignore the excitable young man who talks very fast, just look at the pictures of the two very different kinds of stone walls.
MCQ for chapter 4 (download the file here: MN_MCQ_ch4
Today’s class
Checked meaning of homework words and phrases
Summary of chapter 4
What kind of world is this?
Colours –
Dull red, dark blue, black
Cold, quiet
Ruined buildings
No sound, no people, no animals or insects, no flowers, trees, grass or moss. No life.
A strange room full of waxwork images of people
What happens? (Key events only).
Polly and Digory explore the world, although they do not like it very much.
They find a strange room full of waxwork images. There is a bell and a hammer. Polly wants to go home without touching it, but Digory wants to hit the bell to see what happens. They fight. Digory wins and hits the bell. They hear the sound of falling buildings.
Below is one artist’s impression of Charn. How about yours?
