Readings and homework to be completed for 12/02 and 12/04

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Bring all of these books to class on Friday if you are not at XC; and take home any you have not finished reading for the weekend.  Ms. M. will supervise Friday's class. 

Readings to be completed for Monday 12/02:
- 'The other side of dark' - finished
- 'Language and Writing 7' on Comparison, pp. 62 and 63
- 'Working Together Magazine', p. 35
- 'Mystery and Wonder Magazine', p. 13

Readings to be completed for Wednesday 12/04:
- 'Language and Writing 7' on Travelogues, pp. 70 and 71
- 'Mystery and Wonder Magazine', pp. 14-18, pp. 21-23

Grammar Apps to be completed for Monday 12/02:
- adjectives and adverbs
- do passive voice again, if you got below 70%
- do any of the others that are a weakness

Homework, week of 11/25

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Readings for the weekend:
- 'The other side of dark' - chapters 10 through 12 read by Monday, 11/25

Most interesting C-building character writing:
- due Wednesday, 11/27

- printed before class, Wednesday

- emailed to Mr. S. before class, Wednesday (I have to check for plagiarism), as an attachment

- between 300 and 500 words

- in sentences and paragraphs

- your name and a title

- format is Times New Roman 12, black, double-spaced

You will write four to six paragraphs.  Do not spend all of your time describing the look and character of the person only: that's not interesting.  'Show don't tell'.  Describe them doing something, like the Chinese mother in the poem.

 Practice reading it aloud before Wednesday!  Or, if you decide to do a Powerpoint, video, or something else, make sure the entire thing is finished before Wednesday's class.

Due 11/18: setting readings and writing

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Readings for the weekend:
- The other side of dark - chapters 7 through 9
- Working Together Magazine - 'My partner, my dog', 'What's your group personality', 'My mother, who came from China...'.

Setting Writing due Monday:

- printed before class, Monday

- emailed to Mr. S. before class, Monday (I have to check for plagiarism), as an attachment

- take the point form notes you wrote and presented on a setting and expand them to between 300 and 500 words

- in sentences and paragraphs

- your name and a title

- format is Times New Roman 12, black, double-spaced

Like the story set in Peru, in 'Working Together Magazine', you will describe one location several times during the day, or several times during a year.  You will write four to six paragraphs, one for each different time of the day (or year).  You can use the notes on a setting you read the other day, or do a completely new location.

We will talk about this more in Friday's class while reviewing this week's readings (bring your two 'magazines').

Practice reading it aloud before Monday!

Grade Seven Reading by 11/11

Not very much after all.  Just 'Running Lava Falls' in the 'Working Together Anthology'.  Enjoy your weekend.

HS K, also edited too much.

Sweets to green

                                                                                                              

                  There was a girl that was 17 called Terry Hart. She loved chocolate. But she did not have the taste that she wanted so she decided to make one. She became fatter every day. Every day she ditched school and ate chocolate until she got the taste that she wanted.

Five years later she made a chocolate bar that was filled with crushed peppermint candy, wasabi paste, worm gummies, glanced mozzarella cheese, bubble gum, peanut butter, strawberry jam and kimchi. She owned her own store named terry hart’s wonderful chocolate bars.

                              Everyday a lot of people came to terry’s store. At that time she weight 220kg. One day she saw a handsome man buying her products. Terry fell in love with him. Then Terry found out that he was the owner of the famous salad bar called green yum. She heard from her friend that his name was Collin Monroe.  She decided to go on a diet to make him fall in love with Terry.

 She tried everything to lose weight but everything didn’t work. She realized that maybe if she gave Collin a delicious dish he would fall in love with her. She bought a farm and she began to plant vegetables.  She was so tired because she didn’t experienced this before that she couldn’t eat. The next day she watered the plants every day. Terry ate fresh salad and vegetables to give Collin a very enjoyable dish. After one year Terry weigh 45 kilograms. She loosed 175 kilogram in one year.

 Terry saw Collin at her store so she invited Collin to her house. Collin came and when he ate her salad his eyes was full with joy because he never ate this kind of delicious salad before. Three years later Collin and Terry got married.

M O B, edited much more than she had to.

Wanka’s Adventure

                                                                             Fantasy/Adventure

            “Wanka, wake up!” Wanka jumped out of her bed. “Urgh, another exciting day starting”, Wanka muttered sarcastingly. She washed her face with cold, freezing water and changed into her casual clothes. She made her way downstairs, and slumped on her usual chair. “Good morning honey” her grandma, Amanda said smiling. “Yeah yeah good morning” Wanka felt like her eyelids weighed a ton. She slowly fell asleep…But suddenly, Amanda hit her head with a fry pan. “Ouch! Why did you do that?” Wanka grunted. “Wanka Brooks eat your breakfast” Wanka finally started eating her breakfast but staring straight at Amanda. 

            Later that afternoon, Wanka went to a flower shop to buy flowers for her grandma. It was Amanda’s 60^th birthday, so she was planning to buy 60 roses for her. But Wanka was going to be 16, so she added 16 roses. There were 100 beautiful roses in the entrance and she bought 60 roses from them. Wanka also bought a big colorful vase. She was really excited to see Amanda’s face when she gives her present to her. Wanka went home running, but then suddenly, a man in black suit came towards her and smothered her with a handkerchief soaked in ether and Wanka fell asleep… When she woke up, she found herself in her own house. She looked around, but no one was around her. There was a note on the table, but someone was missing. It was Amanda. She dropped the vase with the roses in it and the glass clattered all over the floor.

            On the note, a simple map was drawn. There was a picture of a tree, a picture of an ocean, and a picture of a mountain. On the top right side of the map, there was a big X. She knew right away that she needed to save her grandma from whoever or whatever had taken her. She jumped out of the house and started heading towards the forest. But then suddenly, everything went black. First she saw a big forest with big giant trees and animals noises booming. Next, she a big ocean with huge waves and thunder storms stroking down. Then she was on top of a humongous mountain with blizzard around her. Finally, she saw a dark silent cave with her grandma in mouth duct taped. She shook her head and she was back to normal. Wanka put the map in her pocket and made her way into the forest.

            The forest was big and sticky, but she didn’t care. Well, only a little bit. She went walked straight not knowing where she was going. Wanka shivered and thought of the worst possible situation that might happen. Like not able to find Amanda and getting lost. Suddenly, she just couldn’t hold it, and burst into tears. “Amanda…” Wanka felt terrible and felt like going back. But of course, she couldn’t leave Amanda. So she chose to go find Amanda again, this time for real. “BUZZZZZ” she heard noises from behind her. When she turned around, millions of bugs came straight towards her. She ran as FAST as she could straight forward. Then, she saw the way out. She dashed towards it and reached out side. The millions of bugs went back into the forest, like nothing had happened. Wanka now headed to the ocean.

            After she walked about a kilometer or so, she saw a big wide ocean. The color of the ocean was beautiful, even though there were strong waves. Wanka saw a long bridge ahead of her, and saw a humongous mountain across it. She knew right away that she needed to cross the bridge to save her grandma. So Wanka started crossing the bridge, but it was really long. She thought it would take forever to cross the bridge. Eight minutes had past crossing the bridge, but she wasn’t even half way across. Suddenly, she heard a CRACK in the sky. Wanka started running. “CRACK”. Another thunder clap. The rain became harder too. Then, the lighting hit the end of the bridge and the bridge slowly started to go. Now Wanka was running full speed, and she made it, but she started heading to the mountain right away.

            Up Wanka looked, and the mountain looked even bigger. She was really worried if she could really go up that high, but then she saw a gondola next to her. She got in it right away, and headed all the way up the mountain with it. It took about thirty minutes to go all the way up, and then strong freezing wind pushed her from the back and she slipped forwards. She couldn’t stop. Then…she fell down from the mountain.

            She fell faster and faster, and the ground was getting close to her. She closed her eyes. But then, she stopped about a centimeter before landing. She slowly landed on the ground. She couldn’t believe it. Wanka stood up and didn’t say a word. But then next to her, she saw a dark cave, and knew right away that her grandma was inside, so rushed inside. First she couldn’t see a thing, but then, she saw a flare far ahead. Running, she reached the end of the cave, and stood there speechless. There was a chair but no one was sitting in it.

L X

In this vacation he go back to Canada once but he still miss his friends and grandparents so he just talk to his parents can he go back to Canada again because he still have one month vacation. “NO! You already go back once, why again? Okay, IF you can, how about the plane flights, you know it is very expensive if we don’t buy it before a month!” Dad reply soon.

So he get an idea how to get an Xbox in Japan, a night he jump to his mom and dad’s bed and talk to them about this.“Can you buy me an Xbox? Please, because I am very bored in Japan! 99% off my classmate went to Hawaii or Los Angles, some of them even go back to Vancouver, can I go back, too?”Omar asked. “Emm, you know, the people move to another country with the language we don’t understand anything, especially in the third month and the forth month. Because in the first month and second month we just though here is a fun place and a lot of new thing here that we don’t have in Canada, so it’s hard to spend every day. That is all what I want to say, Oh, and also in the afternoon maybe you can go to any where if you want to. OK?” Omar doesn’t reply, he just goes back to his room and start playing games on his phone…