Monday – Mar. 4 – ch .1-2

1. Describe his first two drawings. Why did he give up the idea of becoming a painter?
2. Why are grown-ups tiresome to children? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Wednesday – Mar. 6 – ch. 3

1. What did the little prince ask him to do? Why were his first three attempts unacceptable? Why was the fourth one fine?
2. How did he learn things about the little prince? Why did he have to learn this way?

Friday – Mar. 8 – ch. 4

1. Why didn’t the adults listen to the Turkish astronomer at first?  What does this tell you about adults?

Today we are going to talk about Symbolism and Allegory.  Soon we will be starting a class novel study on “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  To prepare ourselves; today we will be studying symbolism and allegory.  See the powerpoint below.

Students are to listen carefully during the lesson and then complete the tasks on the final two slides for submission no later than 9 am tomorrow.

19.02.26 Symbolism-and-Allegory-ppt.-1-qpbq8o-r3lvd7

Today we discussed symbols in literature. For an example we took the Grinch who stole Christmas movie because many of the students have seen it. The first picture shows five objects from the story. Then we recorded where and when in the story those objects came into play. we then underlined the actions in each of those sentences. Then we recorded the reactions of characters to those events in the story. Once we had all this done students made a statement for each object. The statement is based on the reactions of the characters in that object is used. For example, if you look at the Grinch Christmas tree in the picture below you may say that the Christmas tree maybe a symbol of love and togetherness in the story.

Students are assigned to take five objects from The Hobbit and to draw each of them in the different colour. Then they are too right where and when the objects are in the story, underline the actions, record the emotional reactions of the characters in the story. and finally, make a statement for each object saying what they may be a symbol of.

Here is a video of this type of lesson if you have any additional questions.

Today you will learn the online automatic way to generate a bibliography for your research paper.  Whenever submitting work of your own that uses the ideas of other people you MUST cite your sources to give credit to the original people who did the work first.  Also, by citing direct evidence and quotations of people in your research you are also borrowing from their credibility.  For example: if I said that there are estimated to be more than 200,000 galaxies, each with over 200,000 stars on average that sounds like a pretty big claim for a teacher from Arborg that doesn’t even own a telescope.  But if I quoted this fact from Dr. Stephen Hawking as stated in his book A Brief History of the Universe, then it would sound pretty believable.  I have borrowed his credibility to support my own research!

Here is a link to a great free bibliography website and a video on how to use it.

http://www.easybib.com/

here are some more cites that should work too.  Sometimes after the first bibliography the website asks you to turn off the ad blocker.  If this happens then just use another site for your next citation.

http://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-book

http://www.bibme.org/apa

http://www.citethisforme.com/citation-generator/mla

https://www.qub.ac.uk/cite2write/harvard3l.html

https://www.citefast.com/?s=MLA

Click the link below to share what your progress in writer’s workshop so far this year.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ufV2avMmyyoBVMq4XsyYZZ_VsFRvc3QrjNgRyw3Ye_M/edit?usp=sharing

Today we are talking about satire: where it is found, how it used, and exactly what it is.  Follow the links below to the Powerpoint and video seen in class.

Your Assignment:  You are to either find an example of a satirical cartoon (or better yet CREATE YOUR OWN).  Then you are to write a detailed description explaining the satire present.

Understanding Satire Slideshow-1b48c78