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2019 WS, Writing Strategies

WS1: Week 9, June 14th, 2019

Homework

  • Write a short book report (150-300 words) about the book you read from the Easy Reading list. Divide it into two parts: a summary (keep it as short as possible) and your understanding of the meaning of the story. Type it and upload to Manaba by Friday’s class.
  • Don’t forget your Reference page.

Today’s class

  • Discussion of books from the Easy Reading list.
  • The next story from “Splitting the Arrow”.
2019 AS, Academic Skills

AS1: Week 9, June 14th, 2019

Homework

  • Re-write your British history movie report and post to Manaba by next Friday’s class. Don’t forget your “Reference” page.
  • Save your document as “AS1 Movie report draft2 Your Name”.

Today’s class

  • Discussion of student movie reports
  • Watch a video about writing English composition.
  • What did you learn about writing from today’s class?
2018 WS, Writing Strategies

WS2: Week 9, November 30th, 2018

Homework

Summarize the story of how Dorothy meets the Tin Woodman and his story of how or why he became a tin man.
(Click the video below to watch the Tin Man episode, which begins at the 40:44 mark.)

Today’s class

  1. Write a summary in your own words about Emily Dickinson, using the “Afterword” of the book “Emily” and the Wikipedia and other pages that we read.
  2. We watched a bit of the movie “The Wizard of Oz” and read most of the chapter “The Rescue of the Tin Woodman”, from the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
2018 AS, Academic Skills

AS2: Week 9, November 30th, 2018

Homework

Prepare your book and movie presentation, if you have not done your presentation yet (today, Nov. 30th).  Dec. 7th class has been cancelled.  Makeup class will be on Saturday Dec. 15th (not Dec. 8th as I announced in class.) For presentation guidelines, see last week’s blog post here.

Everyone must do their book and movie presentation twice. If you did your book-and-movie presentation Nov 30th or earlier, please do it again on Dec. 14th.

  • You must
    • include historical background and
    • say what readers can learn about American history from the movie or the book (or both).
    • Give the key points.
      • A point is “the important or essential thing”.
      • A key point is “the most important or essential thing” about the movie and the book.

Today’s class

Student “movie and book” presentations.

2017 AS, Academic Skills, announcement

AS2: WEEK 9, DECEMBER 1st, 2017

Announcement

No class next week (Dec. 8th). Makeup on Saturday, Dec. 9th, 3rd period (13:15-14:45)

Homework

Continue your independent study.

Today’s class

  • Remaining presentations
  • Choosing the best presentation
  • Key cultural points about American/Western thinking
    • The first European visitors and settlers
      • Why they came
      • Where they settled
    • “Who will let you build these buildings?
      • “Who will stop me?”
    • “How will you force (your customers) to accept your ideas?”
      • “I won’t force anyone. And I will not be forced.”
2017 AS, Academic Skills

AS1, week 9, June 16th, 2017

Homework

None.

Today’s class

  1. Remaining student presentations
  2. What can we learn about British history and/or culture from watching movies or reading British books?
    1. Facts
      1. Dates
      2. Names
    2. E.g.  “The movie ‘Diana’ focuses on Pricness Diana’s life from her marriage to her death.”
      1. Yes, but WHEN did she marry (what year) and WHEN did she die?
    3. E.g. “Pride and Prejudice” –
      1. date of the original novel
      2. date of the BBC dramatization
        1. Main actors (Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle)
          1. Who is Colin Firth? What other movies has he been in?
      3. date of the most recent movie (2005)
        1. main actors’ names (Keira Knightley)
        2. Who is Keira Knightley? What other movies has she been in?
      4. List of dramatizations and movies based on “Pride and Prejudice”
    4. E.g., “Love Actually”
      1. Directed by Richard Curtis
        1. What other movies has he directed? Who acted in them?
      2. Main actors
        1. What other movies have they been in?