Stranger in the Village: Discussion

Reminders for the week:

  • Take the google forms quiz on Stranger in the Village (use your text and take your time) Stranger in the Village Quiz
  • Respond to ONE of the options of questions below. Write a well-constructed response using examples and referencing the use of language/rhetorical devices (something like a perfect paragraph). Comment on this post with your response. Throughout the week, comment and respond on each other’s posts (you will be given a sort of “participation” grade for these discussions). Tell people what you like about their argument, respond to their argument, expand their arguments… here is an example of another class blog and what that might look like : https://bresslercomp2.weebly.com/discussion-l13/james-baldwin
  • Begin reading Act I of Sweet Bird of Youth for next week (google forms quiz will be posted next week)

 

“Stranger in the Village” Review Questions Directions:

For the question you choose, cite the text to prove your answer and try to identify a literary or rhetorical device employed by Baldwin.

  1. Describe how Baldwin establishes the “dehumanizing” experience of living as a Black man.
  2. What do you think the narrator means when he says “people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them”? Do you feel like your history is trapped in you?
  3. What do you think the narrator means when he says, “there is a great deal of will power involved in… naïveté”?
  4. Baldwin focuses on some of the illusions that propel America, and details the danger of these illusions. What are some illusions and how are they presented by Baldwin in the essay?
  5. Describe the paradox of the existence of the Black man in America that Baldwin closes the essay with, in your own words.

4ème English: work for the next two weeks

Recap video to explain everything:

 

March 17-20

1) Read first 20 pages of PDF to Kill a Mockingbird: you can always call each other on the phone and read aloud!!  Or read to someone in your family!!  TAKE NOTES like we have been doing in class.
2) Learn the following vocabulary for Friday, March 20:
Send me 10 sentences using 5 words from chapter 18 and 5 words from chapter 19 to show that you understand.  Please send by Friday, March 20th.
3) Grammar: prepositions 2 – pages 53 and 54 due (email me the answers).  Please email me by Friday, March 20th.
Prepositions 3: listen to this recording and fill out the exercises on page 55 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EDag4vfwNG9JbJktDEjlBsNPlxCYoPIB/view?usp=sharing
Read pages 56 and 57 on prepositions 3.

March 24-27

1) Read the last 20 pages in the PDF to Kill a Mockingbird: you can always call each other on the phone and read aloud!!  Or read to someone in your family!!  TAKE NOTES like we have been doing in class.
2) Learn the following vocabulary for Friday, March 27:
Send me 10 sentences using any 10 words from the quizlet list.  Please send by Friday, March 27th.
3) Grammar: prepositions 3 – pages 58 and 59 due (email me the answers).  Please email me by Friday, March 27th.
Linking words 1: listen to this recording and fill out the exercises on page 60 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjOxQ-lmHDWIwF3nns_cQ4m-5rnkHNe9/view?usp=sharing
Read pages 62 and 63 on Linking words 1.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!!!!!
Stay healthy!
Ms. Grandison

Welcome 2°Euro Students!

Hello! I hope you will use this blog to exchange ideas about HG with each other (IN ENGLISH) and ask for help with work if you have any questions.

In the meantime, here is a little tutorial about the first assignment:

 

5ème OIB English Good News/ Bad News!

You can add your Good News/ Bad News stories here!

My Monday morning news:

Good News : It’s raining, so it’s a good day to stay inside and work! The rain reminds me of soft Welsh mountain moss, which I love. Also, I have three new books to read!

Bad News : My son is really sick with a cold. I have a LOT of work to do!

Your turn now!

Mrs Cairns

Welcome Prem Euro

Hello Prem Euro students!

I would like you to all use this blog to exchange ideas about the work you are doing (in English please!) and talk about any difficulties you encounter.

Here is the first video tutorial to start things off:

 

Welcome Term Euro 2

Hello and welcome!

The objective of this blog is you can come and ask questions about the topics and work you are doing (in English) and help to improve your understanding. Don’t forget to use PRONOTE FOR ALL ASSIGNMENTS AND DOCUMENTS.

To start things off here is my first video tutorial to help you with your assignment this week:

After Apple Picking paragraph

In class last week, you started writing a short paragraph response to AFTER APPLE PICKING.

 

Please post your response in the comments below, and feel free to respond to each other (highlighting what points you particuarly like, agree with, etc). Your comments on the blog will amount eventually to a participation grade.

 

Hello 5ème OIB! Week One: 16-20 March

How are you all? It’s a beautiful Sunday and all of the OIB teachers have been working hard to ensure you have things to keep you learning during the school closure. Lucky you!

I will put all of your homework on ProNote, of course! I’m even recording videos of the Journey to Jo-burg chapters, so that you can remember my voice!

You can comment on this blog at any time. Be kind!!!!

Don’t forget to check your ENT and ProNote – I will post your work for the week.

You can also ask your parents if you can watch a film in English – if you use subtitles, don’t forget they should be … ENGLISH!

The work you do can be sent by email, via the ENT or even using La Poste! You can handwrite and take a photo.

Please ask if you have any problems – don’t wait until the last minute!

I’m going to have a cup of tea and write your 2nd Trimester reports now… I’ll be kind!

TERM: Basic Outline of the Coming Weeks

Semaine 16-20 Mars

Frost poem:

“Gathering Leaves”

Read powerpoint presentations and annotation  2h

17—Gathering-Leaves—Annotated

17—Gathering-Leaves presentation

 

Check the blog each day to comment/respond to ongoing posts

https://internationalsection.edublogs.org/category/term/  30 min

blog responses rubric grading criteria

 

Perfect paragraph on Gathering Leaves

Respond to the question: How is Frost presenting labour in this poem?

A rendre : 23 Mars  30 min

 

Semaine 23-27 Mars

Frost poem: “The Axe-Helve”

Read powerpoint presentations and annotation  2h

14—The-Ax-Helve—Annotated

14—The-Ax-Helve presentation

 

Go the blog to comment/respond  

https://internationalsection.edublogs.org/category/term/  30 min

Perfect paragraph for the Ax Helve TBA  A rendre : TBA 30 min

RDV DIGITAL: 27 MARS 14H-15h30 TIMED ESSAY PRACTICE  1,5h