ELA 20: Jan 19 Review of units and skills for final…
- We used today’s class for review. Anyone who handed in late assignments by last Friday had them marked and sitting on their desk. They also had an updated version of the literature lists for both the Recollections and Anticipation units. (This updated version has extra titles we included or has lines through the literature we didn’t get to study.)
- We read through the unit lists and briefly discussed the themes behind them and some of the similarities between the literature sources in the sub-unit. Then we looked through the other handout that detailed the skills developed through the course. I reviewed each of them and encouraged students to make notes on their page regarding the main points I tried to highlight. (That’s a great sign of a mature student who makes notes according to the suggestions or hints made by their teacher.)
- We looked at a video, then, that showed how to insert music into a powerpoint. We tried it ourselves with a powerpoint presentation I had but it had too many transitions per slide so it didn’t work as well. We’ll experiment with that as a group tomorrow. We’ll have three computer classes this week to work on their photo essay and complete their blog projects.
Skill-based content:
1. Commas
2. Sentence fragments
3. Sentence variety
4. Transitions:
a. Time
b. Sequence
c. Importance
d. Comparison
5. Verb tense – past / present
6. Integrating references (phrases)
7. Format for proper paragraphs
a. Personal
b. Formal
8. Essay outline
a. Major structural sentences
b. Introduction and conclusion writing
c. Three don’ts of formal essays
d. Word choice: slang vs formal English
9. Figurative language
10. Poetry analysis
a. Paraphrasing
b. Author’s
i. Purpose
ii. Style
iii. Voice
c. Tone (emotion)
d. Speaker (narrator / poet)
e. Theme vs subject
11. Describing characters (characterization)
12. Dynamic characters
13. Conflict
a. Internal : man vs self
b. External: man vs man, society, fate, nature
14. Symbolism
15. Foreshadowing
16. Environment / setting development
17. Parallelism – storylines that mirror each other