Weekend Update

Hello all!
As promised, here is the Weekend Update (that's an allusion to SNL, if you get it.) This is just really a reminder about completing your research project in the format outlined on the pink handout by Tuesday. Remember to format all seven of your sources - that is the two essays and the supporting sources - in MLA format (this is the link to the SFU site mentioned in class) and to summarize each of the essays and the sources in about 4 or 5 sentences. Your intro should be about one page double-spaced - could be more or less - I'm definitely not counting words. But you should write enough to give a good indication of what your paper would be about and where you would head with your research if you actually had to write the paper, which you don't. So lucky! Remember you have a handout with the intro for the 10 page paper I wrote in university, so you can look to see how long mine was. 
As for the novel, you should be finishing The Things They Carried by Tuesday in order to understand the last lecture and discussion and prepare for the test on Thursday. If you have to leave one story unread, maybe don't read the very last one until after Tuesday's class.

Finally, I thought I would give you a link to the sample English 12 Provincial Exams. You can review these, and if you don't know, or forget some of the terms like cacophony, dramatic monologue, and apostrophe, then look them up! Overall, the format of the exam should be pretty comfortable for you. 
We'll chat more Tuesday. And, if it's any consolation, as you spend the weekend working, I will be working all weekend too - lots to mark and read and finish up for the end of the year. 
Hang in there and have a productive weekend!
Ms. M