Communications 12

Happy New Year everyone.

Comm. 12 is beginning their exam prep.

This week we are looking at visual design, which is  Part C of the BC provincial Exam: Communication  Products.

For this assignment, students are shown that posters use words and images to send a message to the audience. They are to list three things which they think make a poster effective.

Their next task is to choose an issue that they feel strongly about.

1.  Develop ideas for a poster to help communicate their ideas. The purpose of this assignment is to convince an audience that their point of view is correct.
2. Develop a rough draft.
3. Create a final draft.
4. Publish and display your poster in the classroom.

This assignment will be scored out of six using the scoring guide for visual design.

Comm 12

Today we will be looking at a current event. Read the article from the CBC and complete the current events sheet provided.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/galleon-san-jose-1.3354114

Comm 12

Two weeks until Christmas!

 

I encourage all students to submit any previous work and stay up to date. For the next two weeks, we will be working on our grammar skills, vocabulary, sentence building and reading comprehension.

 

Before we travel down that road, I thought you should have an opportunity to check your marks and hand in any work you may have completed this last weekend.

 

Great! Let's get going.

Due to a slight delay, this Tuesday, you will have an opportunity to gain 5 marks for presenting your research on your Historical figure. Have a copy of your research and briefly summarize your findings. Be prepared.

1. After silent reading, complete your worksheet on sentence building.

2. Read your handout on short stories.

3. Read story one and answer the provided questions.

4. Class discussion. This is time for you to ask and questions that you may have about the assignment.

 

Comm 12

Create a poster advertising your Spoken Word night. In addition to making your poster visually appealing, be sure to include the following information:


Where: G.P. Vanier Gym
When: December 18th
What: Spoken Word Café.
Time: 7-9pm

This assignment is worth 10 marks.

 Reminder: You will be presenting your Historical Figure this Friday. Give a brief summary of your historical figure. Include the 5 W's. This is worth 5 marks.

Communications 12

Monday:

Writing your Spoken Word

Now that we have made connections between a community member and a historical figure, it is time to plan and organize your ideas. Use your handout titled, "Getting Started with Spoken Word" to help you begin.

• Use a mind map to help you organize your thoughts. Remember, you are writing a spoken word to help celebrate your community member's resilience.

• Explore ideas and look at the examples provided to help you begin the process. 

• Add poetic value to your work by exploring literary ideas. For example, if symbolism is important, you should use references and/or descriptions that symbolize resilient attributes.

 

Resilience Café Invitation Letter

Use your notes on letter writing to write a formal letter of invitation to your resilient community member. You are inviting them to a Resilience Café presentation night to be held at G.P. Vanier High School on December 18th. Explain that you are performing a spoken word that celebrates their resilience.

English 10

Assignment for Monday (12 marks):

 

Find some song lyrics that you like because of the songwriter's theme and skillful use of poetic devices. Hand in a copy of the lyrics and a three-part analysis that follows the format discussed in class. Re-read the introduction to poetry if you need a reminder.

All responses will be written with an introductory paragraph, which includes reference to the song title and author. Also, within your introduction, make reference to the three parts of your analysis (form, poetic devices, and theme).

You will have one class to complete this assignment. Spend no more than 10 min. searching for song lyrics. I have many for you to choose from if you need them.

Terms:

Stanza

Rhyme scheme

free verse

lyric poetry

narrative poetry

descriptive poetry

singleton

couplet

triplet

quatrain

sonnet

 

Devices:

Symbolism

alliteration

consonance

assonance

personification

metaphor

simile

imagery

allusion

irony

hyperbole

 

English

Introduction to Poetry

 

 

Like music, poetry can be a window to the mind and it's a wonderful form of expression.

Poems can convey feeling, emotions and ideas.

 

When it comes to poetry, there are three essential ingredients that contribute to the meaning and message behind a poem. They are form, devices and theme.  As an example, we will look at the ancient Japanese poetic form called haiku as it relates to these three concepts.

 

 

Form:  This refers to the actual way the poem is put together, such as the number of stanzas, the type of rhyme scheme, and the type of poem. Just like the body has a skeleton to hold its shape, poems have a structure that holds their ideas together. In poetry, that "skeleton" is called form. There are many different types or forms of poetry such as Haiku, Couplet, Quatrain, Limerick, and Free Verse. Poem’s form may be very restricted and limited or very free without many restrictions. Rules for form might include number of words, indention, capitalization, number of syllables, placement of rhymed words, and number and/or placement of lines.

 

• With a haiku, the poem is usually three lines long, has been broken up so that there are 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the next and back to 5 syllables in the last line. There is usually no rhyming, so the scheme would be ABC, and the type of poem is descriptive.

 

 

Poetic Devices: There are numerous devices employed within poetry, essentially it is language being used in a particular way to convey a certain feeling or meaning. Poetic devices are tools that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem. Devices include imagery, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia and simile.

 

• With haikus, imagery is the main poetic device.

 

Theme: Theme is just that, it is the general idea or thought being conveyed through the poem.  The theme is the point a writer is trying to make about a subject. Learning about theme helps you decide what is important. The theme of the poem tells what the whole poem is about. All the words, descriptions, figurative language, detail sentences, and scenes are all small parts that add to the reader's understanding of what you feel about the theme.

 

• With haikus, the general theme has to do with a moment in nature.