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March 4, 2018

Autobiography Assignment

Note on Assessment and Evaluation: Policy page review

Writing an Autobiography

How well do you know yourself? Do you think that your friends and family have a different perception of you? Many of us have different personalities when we’re with different people. Many of us have characteristics that seem like complete opposites.

List of Human Characteristics Handout:  All of these words describe aspects of personality. Some are antonyms and some are almost synonyms, but no two words express exactly the same quality. In this activity, you will discuss yourself, your interests, your future plans, your concerns in your first long writing piece: an autobiography.

Journal Practice: While reading the list, record all of the words that pertain to your personality. Do you notice any synonyms? Are there any words that are antonyms? If there are any words that are new to you, feel free to look them up in the dictionary or thesaurus as you go. Click here to visit a very useful online dictionary.

Example Paragraph

The following paragraph is a model of how each body paragraph of your autobiography will look.

There are three personality traits that make me exceptional including rowdy, humorous, and resourceful. I play a lot of team sports and I really enjoy the violent ones. I get more excited and interested in a sport, if there is a chance that I might be personally injured. I love the risk of extreme sports. Luckily, I usually have a good sense of humour about getting hurt. Last summer I was supposed to be an usher at my brother’s wedding but two days before the ceremony, I broke my leg playing lacrosse. So I showed up anyway, in a wheelchair and made fun of how my cast didn’t match my tuxedo top. I can usually be pretty resourceful in a difficult situation. This was again true at the same wedding, where in order to dance, I just had my dancing partner steer me around the dance floor in any crazy way. I was pretty popular that night. Overall, you can see how these three characteristics make me unique in my daily life and interests.

You will follow the same structure for all of your body paragraphs in the autobiography that you will be writing.

Assignment #1

Before Reading

  1. From the List of Human Characteristics handout, choose five of the characteristics to describe yourself.
  2. Now, choose five characteristics to describe one of your friends or someone in your family. Try to choose someone who is quite different from you to help you complete the comparison chart.

Using your answers above, complete the following comparison chart.

Click here to download a copy of the chart.

Journal Work

Prepare the following answer to discuss with your teacher and classmates. Briefly identify one of the characteristics you chose in the Before Reading activity and describe the evidence to support your characteristic. Find someone else in the class who has a similar characteristic and discuss:

  1. Other characteristics you might share with that person
  2. Other pieces of evidence that you might share with that person

Lit circle questions prepped for tomorrow’s literature circle.

February 17, 2016

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Reminder: We need to share one cart between two classes. This means that we have 10 devices every day.

We will all read and track our reading every day. Then some of us will work on devices and some of us will work on our reading and writing.

Here is a schedule for when you will have access to a device.

Read your independent novel for 20 mins.

Today we will review annotating for non-fiction and creating a research note.

Group 3

1) Update your reading tracking sheet. Make sure you add in all the pages read since the last time you updated it.

2) Go to the assignment tracking sheet to see what you should have done by now.

3) Work on your Global Perspectives editing. Use this sheet to guide you. When you are done, submit the sheet via the Assignment Submission page (found on this blog).

Remember, when using online docs, make a copy of the document so that you can write on it.

4) Choose a second page to edit. Review the sign-up sheet to be sure no one else has chosen the same page.

Group 2

1) Update your reading tracking sheet. Make sure you add in all the pages read since the last time you updated it.

2) Complete Reading Log #1

3) Write: Prompt #1

Group 1

1) Update your reading tracking sheet. Make sure you add in all the pages read since the last time you updated it.

2) Annotate “Truth and Reconciliation Commission urges Canada to confront ‘cultural genocide’ of residential schools” and make a research note.

 

February 13, 2016

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Today I am in the building, but not in the class.

We need to share one cart between two classes. This means that we have 10 devices every day.

We will all read and track our reading every day. Then some of us will work on devices and some of us will work on our reading and writing.

Here is a schedule for when you will have access to a device.

Read your independent novel for 20 mins.

Those on devices:

1) Update your reading tracking sheet. Make sure you add in all the pages read since the last time you updated it.

2) Go to the assignment tracking sheet to see what you should have done by now.

3) Work on your Global Perspectives editing. Use this sheet to guide you. When you are done, submit the sheet via the Assignment Submission page (found on this blog).

Remember, when using online docs, make a copy of the document so that you can write on it.

4) Choose a second page to edit. Review the sign-up sheet to be sure no one else has chosen the same page.

Those without devices:

1) Update your reading tracking sheet. Make sure you add in all the pages read since the last time you updated it.

2) Complete Reading Log #1

3) Write: Prompt #1