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Link to our generalizations

ESSAY STRUCTURE HANDOUT

Essay task sheet

Tone vocabulary

Emotion vocabulary

PLOT SUMMARIES (from Sparknotes)

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Today we will consider plot structure and symbolism. Your group will either unpack the importance of the symbols, or answer the questions about plot structure (see post below this). You will complete this for prep.

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Option 1) What is the importance of these symbols? Locusts, fire, yams, palm wine, the gun, drums, the Chi

Option 2) How might we describe the plot structure?

Mythos grid

Mythos explanations

Questions to answer

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In-Class essay assignment (for those not away!):

You may bring:

Your novel

Your main thesis

Your main claims that organize your paragraphs

Your quotations.

The essay task sheet and the essay structure handout.

NO OTHER NOTES. You will use exam.net, so you are responsible for making sure your laptop is charged at start of lesson.

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Review

Absent: Eva, Cayden

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Today we'll focus on the big questions in our unit.

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Full Version | Audio book

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Prep for today: Reread Chapters 1 - 4 and annotate.

1. (Group 1) Highlight details that reflect successful elements of society.

2. (Group 2) Highlight details that show Okokonkwo’s strengths and weaknesses.

We will have a graded Harkness discussion. Links: rubric and guidelines

We will then move on to consider up to Chapter 8.

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Bring annotations on Okonkwo's character (in your novel). Use one consistent colour to highlight characterization of Okonkwo up to Chapter 12. As you go, you can use another colour for other things you notice that are interesting in relation to other things.

Focus for today: Chapters 9-12 We talked through these readings and questions that address Achebe's purpose.

Prep: Summarize for yourself what you think is the purpose

of Achebe in writing this novel, and be able to elaborate on a few aspects of this purpose, based on today's readings. And read the chapters for next class.

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Focus for Today: Chapters 13-16

We'll start by summarizing what you think Achebe's purpose was in this novel, as a writer.

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Focus for Today: WHOLE NOVEL

You will be working on your presentations with your whole novel in mind. PRESENTATION TASK SHEET AND RUBRIC

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NO CLASS: LITERACY TESTS

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Grade 12 Literacy Assessment | Building Student Success - B.C. Curriculum

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The Grade 12 Literacy Assessment is a provincial assessment that assesses student proficiency in literacy. It is a graduation requirement and completed during students’ Grade 12 year.

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GROUP PRESENTATIONS

LINK TO TASK SHEET AND RUBRIC

Please share your presentation with me by the end of today, and also make your presentation viewable by the whole class. I will post the presentations on our resource padlet. Great work so far. For those who did not fully present today: Please complete either a voiceover or written notes to accompany your presentations before Sunday at noon. If I don't receive them, I'll just grade the presentations based on what I see from these. We'll use all the presentations as our materials for Tuesday's class.

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Links to presentations:

Conflict

Characterization (ranking)

Characterization (focus on characters in rel. to Okonkwo)

Notes accompanying character focus

Plot structure

Prep for Thursday: Read and annotate the readings we will discuss for the start of next class.

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Absent: Cayden

Reading for today: The Second Coming and this newspaper article

Harkness discussion on this reading and a few other questions (I will post these on Tues)