November
26
ELA 30: Nov 26 Writing period / “Far Horizon: Man Alone” reading…
- Students had two periods of class today. For the first, they continued working on their Marginalized Creative Writing Assignment and the challenge was put to them to incorporate some sense of foreshadowing or symbolism into their writing.
- In the second period, we began discussing, again, the notion that this course and its literature are broken up into these sub-units but the larger picture is that there are two concepts to consider here: The diverse Nature of Canada and the Voices (and experiences) of the people within it. Any and all pieces of literature that we have or will study can be interchanged into any of the sub units that apply to them. For their exam, they will not be asked to discuss in-depth Marginalized voices but they may be asked a question about voices and the marginalized voice will be one that they could discuss with the others.
- In line with this, I asked students to cross out all the literature from our Marginalized voices sub-unit except “The Komagata Muru Incident”. The reason for this is that the other literature are listed in other courses on the resource list. I shared these pieces of writing with the class to help them formulate better their concept of what Marginalized means, but they will only be able to refer directly to the play about the Komagata Muru. (They have a lot of literature they can reference, so this shouldn’t back anyone into a corner or leave them with a disability.)
- We read this essay that discussed and analyzed a lot of writing by Canadian authors about Saskatchewan residents, specifically. It was a long and somewhat tough piece of literature to discuss when we were all so tired and worn out from the weekend, but we compromised by ending our reading before the end but with each student contributing an answer to share what benefit this piece of literature may have to their comprehension of the unit.
- Their creative writing assignment is due next Tuesday.
- Today was also my last Monday with the Grade twelves. Miss Campbell will be returning to school next week! She will be continuing with the class from there.