Unit+A+Intro+Material

Welcome to our first few classes of Grade 11 English. Email me if you ever need to! marney.rosen@saschina.org

Documents you may wish to access:

Class one:

1. What is human nature? 2. How do we analyse real-life qualities in a literary context?

Consider the two cartoons below in the ppt linked below:



Start reading "A Girl's Story." Consider it both as a short story (albeit a strange one, likely!) AND as a review of the elements of short stories. Pay careful attention to the questions.

__**Hmwk**__:
 * Register your parents on wiki!


 * Read the course outline carefully


 * Answer ‘when we go beyond the joke’ (one paragraph maximum -- make every word count) on appropriate page, read 5-6 others by next class


 * Finish "Girl’s Story". Answer questions 2a (bullet points) and THINK about 2b (leave question 1 for now)

Class two: 1. What can we learn about good writing through examining various answers to "Go Beyond the Joke?" 2. What factors combine to make 'good writing'?

3. What is the difference between an author and a narrator?


 * Examine several answers on the wiki in groups of three. Look for patterns and exceptions. Now find a line of 'good writing'. Defend your answer to the class. Look at your own paragraph for some of the same factors. What about sentence variety? Class activity ...
 * Good-bye if you haven't read "Girl's Story"! Begin our discussion, then start on homework.

__** Hmwk: **__
 * Finish "Girl's Story" [[file:summer - a girl's story 07-08.doc|questions]]. Write up the answers for #2a, and consider 2b.
 * Finish "Kugelmass Episode", take own notes, google Woody Allen, google at least 5 references (books, places, people) with which you are unfamiliar

Class three 1. What can we learn about short stories through the tongue-in-cheek "Girl's Story?" What about "Kugelmass"? 2. How do we listen and take notes at the same time?

[|http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hsun-tse.htmlhttp://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hsun-tse.htm]
 * Prove you know the course outline!
 * #1 from Girl's Story orally. Let's come up with ONE great answer together.
 * Consider the circular logic of the statement on human nature offered by a Chinese philosopher. Don't open the link until AFTER you try listening to the 'lecture' out loud!
 * Discuss "Kugelmass" - irony and inside jokes

__**Hmwk**__: **EARLY REFERENCE TO INDEPENDENT READING - SEE APPROPRIATE PAGE ON LEFT-HAND SIDE AND CHOOSE A BOOK AND ASSIGNMENT!**
 * Look up [[file:vocab for Man and Dinosaur.doc|unknown vocab]] in 'Human Being and the Dinosaur". There may be a quiz next day!