I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on your learning thus far. We are on track with the syllabus - maybe a week overdue - and will finish the unit on Education this month.
To date you have learned a lot about rhetoric and analysis of non-fiction passages, you have reviewed literary terms and read Catcher in the Rye, and now you are reading your second extended work: The Film Club.
We have spent a lot of time discussing writing:
- how to give your papers the axe;
- how to avoid the use of fluff words "very"; "thing"; "really", and the dreaded "that";
- how to focus on clarity and concise language;
- how to avoid run-on sentences and sentence fragments;
- how to support your ideas with specific, clear examples.
You've been busy.
One more thought - use tomorrow's Remembrance Day Ceremony to put things in perspective too. We are so lucky to have the lives we do; we worry so much about issues that, in the grand scheme, don't matter. Consider the big picture and recognize how fortunate you are to attend school, to learn, and to plan for your future, which looks bright right about now. I read once that 1 billion people on the planet don't have adequate fresh water to survive each day. (The requirements of fresh water for survival are only a few litres a day, by the way.) That statistic always puts things in perspective for me.
Homework: Vocabtest.com, Unit 2 SENIOR WORDS (not AP) and keep reading The Film Club
Enjoy your extra day off!
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