Reading: optional

Good morning. Here's a link to an article about childhood. R, your husband might find it interesting. It isn't easy reading, so it is optional. Take the challenge. What is the author's tone? Can you take what he says seriously? Do you think he was exploited as a child?

 http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/16/rex-murphy-a-childs-summer-in-newfoundland/

Noun Clauses: another online quiz

http://www.myenglishgrammar.com/exercise-17-clauses/1741-noun-clauses.html

word game

Try
knoword.com
It will challenge your ability to come up with English words.

spell check

I'm not sure who wrote this, but it's good!
Nothing beats proofreading.
No one ever said spelling in English was easy (or logical).


A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...
 
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Noun Clauses

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables


Check out the quizzes on these websites:

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/esl-noun-clauses1.html

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/nounclausequiz.html

http://clausesandsentences.weebly.com/noun-clause-practice.html

http://arts.uottawa.ca/writingcentre/en/hypergrammar/building-clauses/review-noun-adjective-and-adverb-clauses

Thanksgiving

A special thank you to my wonderful class and colleague for the delicious Thanksgiving potluck lunch we enjoyed today. Happy Thanksgiving!

Literature Circles

Please come prepared every week; your participation contributes to our success!
Role descriptions:
Vocabulary leader:
-look carefully through the reading and find the words and phrases that you do not know
-choose up to 10 words you think are important and necessary to understanding the reading
-list them, include the page number, copy the sentence with the word in context, and include a definition of the word as it is used in the reading.

Summarizer:
-give a brief summary of the most important things that happened or were addressed in the part of the book you read this week.

Connector:
-help group members make connections between the reading and the world outside
-think about how the story relates to his/her own experiences or to the experiences of friends or family members. e.g. Do any of the characters remind you of people that you know? Have you ever had thoughts or feelings similar to people in the story? Does anything in the story remind you of something in the news or something you have seen happen?

Passage finder: 
-find and discuss with the group important, interesting, or difficult parts of the reading.
-read the passage aloud to the group or ask another student to read it.
-why did you choose the passage?

Group discussion leader:
-write some questions to start the discussion
-ask questions to keep the discussion going
-make sure each group member participates in the discussion

Assignment on Soft Skills

Soft Skills



Please submit a Word document of your answers to the questions on the handout. Write in complete sentences.
Refer to the article if necessary.
Due: Friday, October 10.

PISA Tests

Just for interest, but good reading practice, and critical thinking too...

Check out this website and click on the blue box that says:

Try PISA 2012 Test Questions

See if you can complete the 6 questions in each category:
Mathematics, Problem Solving and Financial Literary

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results.htm

Read about how countries in the world compare at:

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/pisa2012/index.asp