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ELA 20 Final Writing Assignment

dsader — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:11:44 +0000

Write a post in response to a text you read in ELA 20 in which you discuss 3-5 ideas the text creator suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self.

Consider the course focus:

The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind of people we are. To understand who we are and to develop fully as human beings, we must explore the nature of our humanness and the purpose of our lives.

Who and what are we?

What are the common human qualities and ideals we hold?

What roles do other people (e.g., friends, family) play in our lives?

What brings us joy, inspiration, and fulfillment?

What doubts and fears do we have? By examining our lives and searching for answers to these and other questions, we can find meaning and fulfillment as human beings.

Consider the rubric:

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The Shack Writing Assignment

dsader — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:02:24 +0000

Write a post in response to The Shack in which you discuss 3-5 ideas WM Paul Young suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self.

Consider your discussions of key questions in the STJ forums on The Shack (login required).

Consider your many class discussions on the four postulates:

Can something come from nothing?
Does God exist?
Do humans have immortal soul?
Do humans have free will?

Consider the course focus:

The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind of people we are. To understand who we are and to develop fully as human beings, we must explore the nature of our humanness and the purpose of our lives. Who and what are we? What are the common human qualities and ideals we hold? What roles do other people (e.g., friends, family) play in our lives? What brings us joy, inspiration, and fulfillment? What doubts and fears do we have? By examining our lives and searching for answers to these and other questions, we can find meaning and fulfillment as human beings.

Consider the rubric:

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Prepping for ELA 9 Achievement Test?

dsader — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:02:16 +0000

Part A of the Alberta ELA 9 Achievement test is itself in 2 parts:

Narrative/Essay
Business Letter

Suggestions for Preparing to Write the Narrative/Essay:

Assessment of the Narrative / Essay Writing
Assignment on the achievement test will be in the context of Louise Rosenblatt’s suggestion that “the evaluation of the answers would be in terms of the amount of evidence that the youngster has actually read something and thought about it, not a question of whether, necessarily, he has thought about it the way an adult would, or given an adult’s ‘correct’ answer.”
Rosenblatt, Louise. “The Reader’s Contribution in the Literary Experience: Interview with Louise Rosenblatt.” By Lionel Wilson. English Quarterly 14, no. 1 (Spring, 1981): 3–12.

Consider also Grant P. Wiggins’ suggestion to assess students’ writing “with the tact of Socrates: tact to respect the student’s ideas enough to enter them fully—even more fully than the thinker sometimes—and thus the tact to accept apt but unanticipatable or unique responses.”
Wiggins, Grant. P. Assessing Student Performance:
Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993, p. 40.

Example Assignment for Writing a Narrative or Essay

Example Student Response for Writing a Narrative or Essay

Suggestions for Preparing for Writing the Business Letter:
Wikipedia on business letter

Business Letter tips from OWL and more tips from OWL

Sample business letters from OWL

Canada Post Addressing Guide

Format of a Business Letter

Envelope of a Business Letter

Example Assignment of a Business Letter

Example Student Response to Business Letter Assignment

Alberta Education links to Samples of Student Writing

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Separation from a Loved One

dsader — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:54:44 +0000

Compare and contrast how the following two poems deal with the theme of separation from a loved one:

The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound(a translation from original by Li Po)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

Focus on such aspects as imagery, symbolism, archetypes, mood, and characterization. Quote directly from the poems to support your points.

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The Medium is the Message

dsader — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:00:25 +0000

According to Marshall McLuhan, television is a “cool” medium because it provides little information and makes the user fill in what is missing. How do the House Hippo and Media Monkey ads make the user fill in the information?

House Hippo

Media Monkey

Do young people accept what they see in media as being reality? Provide specific examples to support your opinion.

Facts on Childhood Issues

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