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Posted: April 13, 2020

Grade 112  Period 1 and 2                                                 Week 2 April 13-17/2020

English 112

READING

Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)  -  Using material of your choice, read silently for approximately 20 minutes per day (Feel free to reading longer if you so desire).  You can read a novel, essay, magazine, news article, etc.  These can be either in print or e-copy.  After completing the reading you can fill in a reflection on the sheet attached to this post or on loose-leaf. 

WRITING

For each day this week let’s focus on some creative writing.  Here are the topics for each day.

04/13-  Should we have school uniforms?

04/14-  My favorite restaurant

04/15-  If I were an insect…

04/16-  If I could go anywhere in the world

04/17-  In 20 years I will be…

Take approximately 10 minutes each day and get pen to paper (or type and save electronically)    *  Don’t forget to focus on both creativity and the 7 Traits of Writing (look them up if you forget!)

 

History 112

View the following video over the course of this week.  We are currently working in the Industrial Revolution Unit. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCpqN7GmLYk

Also, answer the following questions and keep answers either on paper or saved in a folder.  Use the internet to research and then formulate an answer.

3.

A.    What changes took place in the textile industry?

B.    How did the iron industry change?

C.    Why was the steam engine so important?

D.    How was transportation changed drastically?

E.    Why were all these changes important?

 

Posted: April 6, 2020

Grade 113  Period 4 and 5Week 1 April 6-10/2020

English 113

READING

Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)  -  Using material of your choice, read silently for approximately 20 minutes per day (Feel free to reading longer if you so desire).  You can read a novel, essay, magazine, news article, etc.  These can be either in print or e-copy.  After completing the reading, you can fill in a reflection on the sheet attached to this post or on loose-leaf.  This is the same thing we did to begin each class during first semester.  

WRITING

For each day this week let’s begin by journaling your thoughts and experiences with this unprecedented situation.  How has it affected the world?  How are you dealing with it?  How can you make things better each day for you and those around you?  Take approximately 10 minutes each day and get pen to paper (or type and save electronically)       

 

History 113

View the following video over the course of this week.  We are currently working in the Industrial Revolution Unit.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA&t=745s

Also, answer the following questions and keep answers either on paper or saved in a folder.  Use the internet to research and then formulate an answer.

1.How have inventions changed production of goods during the last two hundred years?

2.How have changes in industry affected workers?

3.How have developments in industry and science brought about a revolution in agriculture?

4.What can people expect in the future if progress in industry, agriculture and science continues?

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted: April 6, 2020

Grade 112  Period 1 and 2Week 1 April 6-10/2020

English 112

READING

Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)  -  Using material of your choice, read silently for approximately 20 minutes per day (Feel free to reading longer if you so desire).  You can read a novel, essay, magazine, news article, etc.  These can be either in print or e-copy.  After completing the reading you can fill in a reflection on the sheet attached to this post or on loose-leaf.  This is the same thing we did to begin each class during first semester.  

WRITING

For each day this week let’s begin by journaling your thoughts and experiences with this unprecedented situation.  How has it affected the world?  How are you dealing with it?  How can you make things better each day for you and those around you?  Take approximately 10 minutes each day and get pen to paper (or type and save electronically)    *  Don’t forget to focus on both creativity and the 7 Traits of Writing (look them up if you forget!)

 

History 112

View the following video over the course of this week.  We are currently working in the Industrial Revolution Unit.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA&t=745s

Also, answer the following questions and keep answers either on paper or saved in a folder.  Use the internet to research and then formulate an answer.

  1. What is a revolution?

   2.   Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?

A. How did changes in agriculture make the revolution possible?

B. What role did population increase have in causing this revolution?

C. From where did the raw materials and capital for revolution come?

D. How did inventions help start the revolution?

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted: April 5, 2020

Hello Grade 11’s.  I hope everyone is doing well during our time apart.  I certainly miss each of you and want you to know if you need anything please feel free to email me anytime. ( dax.silliker@nbed.nb.ca )   

Home learning is something we have never experienced before but I’m sure we can do it together.  The situation is ever evolving.  This changes daily but we do have some direction on what should be taking place at different grade levels.  Grade 11 and 12 students should be working for three (3) hours per week, per course so for us that means three hours for History and three for English.

At this point I will be posting home learning opportunities for you to work on each week via my teacher page on Mondays. I will have separate posts for the 112’s and 113’s but each weekly post will have both History and English.  I may also throw in some additional supports from time to time as well.

This is not going to be the same as being in school for sure.  For example, 112’s, we will not be doing the personalized learning plan as outlined on Office 365 (in fact I have taken units off the teams page).  113’s, we will not be finishing our 20% project.  I am really saddened not being able to do these new adventures in student learning however school closures were something we certainly did not see coming.  I felt both groups were starting to really buy in to this new approach and I was excited to see what you were creating to showcase what you were learning in each unit.

At this point, home learning is to be a one-way scenario in which assessment of student work is not taking place.  Opportunities are being provided by teachers for students to explore some material we would have had in our respective courses.  Please understand this is not as intensive as what would have occurred if we were together each day but it will let you continue with your studies for your second last year of school.  As I end, please know that we are thinking of you all during this time and cannot wait until we get to be back together again in our classroom.  

 

Posted: December 11, 2019

 

Working with groups of 3-5 students, you are to showcase mastery of the course curriculum's outcomes.  Using a topic of your group's choice, you must prove mastery of two (2) Specific Curriculum Outcomes from each of the three (3) areas of Language Arts focus: Reading and Viewing, Writing and Representing, and Speaking and Listening.  Our exhibition of learning will occur during the week of January 13th, 2020.  This will account for 1/3 of your Q2 mark.  You will also evaluate your group members individually as well as pass in a self evaluation.

Posted: October 10, 2019

Group Project for "Electrocute a Stranger"

Presentation

Hate is a terrible thing in today's society.  Your group will develop a presentation on ?HATE and present it to the class on Thursday October 24, 2019.

You can take whatever approach to the topic your group wishes.  It should be no more than 60 minutes in length

OR

You can do a presentation on a topic of your choice but it must be a social issue in todays society and you must find a short story which relates to that issue

Marks will be awarded for presentation by each group member

Posted: October 10, 2019

Mr. D. Silliker

English 11

NSER

 Bullying project.

 One child in four is bullied at school. One in five admit bullying. Recently, a government report on school shootings showed that the only common trait among student shooters was that they all have a long history of being bullied. In schools where fear and anxiety are the norm, students can't learn and achieve.

 As an extension activity for the short story “The Moose and the Sparrow” your group will create a presentation based on the concept of BULLYING.

 Your presentation will be oral in nature and may use any combination of mediums you choose.  Each member must participate in the actual presentation or else risk receiving zero for a grade. 

 

Your presentation must include, but is certainly not limited to, the following:

 Identify various types of bullying, both direct and indirect.

Increase awareness of bullying styles and its presence in schools.

Develop awareness of the consequences of bullying, both personally and socially.

Review research findings relating to the causes and effects of bullying.

  

Each member of the group will receive an individual mark based on effort, participation and quality. 

Time of presentation = 15-30 Minutes

Posted: October 3, 2019

Act 1 Scene 5

1.       What is Lady Macbeth’s opinion of her husband’s character?

2.       What is the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

3.       What indications do we have thus far in the play that the idea of murdering Duncan has been previously discussed by Macbeth and his wife?

Act 1 Scene 6

1.       What growing impression of Duncan do we receive from this scene?

2.       Explain the absence of Macbeth from this scene.

3.       Reveal the dramatic irony of the speeches of Duncan and Banquo.

Act 1 Scene 7

1.       What reasons does Macbeth give for not going on with the plans to continue with the crime?

2.       Why is Duncan revealed as a virtuous and popular ruler?

3.       How does Lady Macbeth restore Macbeth’s determination?

4.       Lady Macbeth’s final argument is consistent with Macbeth’s thoughts at the beginning of his opening soliloquy in this scene: in what way?

 

Posted: October 3, 2019

Act 2

Scene 1

                27.What time is it?

                28.Who is Curan?

                29.How long has Gloucester spent on stage with Edgar so far?

                30.What does Edmund say Edgar was attempting to do?

                31.How does Gloucester link himself to Lear's fate?

 Act 2

Scene 2,3,4

                32.Where does Kent tell Oswald to put his horses?

                33.Why does Kent violently insult Oswald?

                34.What reason does Oswald give for "sparing"

                35.How long does Kent have to sit in the stocks and who decided this?

                36.Who does Edgar become in this scene?

                37.What does Lear fear he is succumbing to in this scene?

                38.What excuse do Regan and Cornwall give for refusing to speak to Lear?

                39.Explain the fool's proverb about the eels and the Cockney.

   40.What reason does Regan give for trying to send her father back to her                                                                          sister's  house?

                41.Explain the phrase "O reason not the need"

Posted: October 1, 2019

Act 1 sc 6

1.  What growing impression of Duncan do we receive from this scene?

2.  Explain the absence of Macbeth in this scene.

3.  Reveal the dramatic irony of the speeches of Banquo and Lady Macbeth.

 

Act 1 sc 7

1.  What reasons does Macbeth give for not going on with the plans to continue with the crime?

2.  Why is Duncan revealed as a popular and virtuous ruler?

3.  How does Lady Macbeth restore Macbeth’s determination?

4.  Lady Macbeth’s final argument is consistent with Macbeth’s thoughts at the beginning of his opening soliloquy in this scene: in what way?

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