Welcome Post

Welcome to the online forum of blogging. You have an opportunity to create your own blog and to respond to suggested writing prompts. You might rather compose your thoughts on a computer because of the editing tools available. These tools will enable you to check spelling and grammar, and to research online resources including, but not limited to, a thesaurus or dictionary.

Here you will be writing for a wider audience, so there are a few pointers that you will want to consider.

• By composing your blogs in a word document you will be able to edit before posting, and you will have a saved copy of each blog in a file that you create.
• You are expected to write at a senior high school level - avoid abbreviations often found in text messages or chat forums.
• Your writing is accessible by your peers as well as the public - write appropriate posts that reflect your academic abilities and your moral integrity.

Your first blog will be to rewrite your personal essay with some consideration given to the structure that we outlined on the board in class.

Write a clear introduction and conclusion. Include three subtopics that are developed in the subsequent body paragraphs. Revisit the essay by Bertrand Russell. 

Throw a picture of yourself onto the post.

Your blog will be visited and graded as a significant component of your COM 11/12 grade. Postings will include responses to what we read or view in class as well as personal reflections on suggested topics, such as the one above. 

 

Good luck and enjoy your blog!

Com 11 - 12 Outline

Mr. Wm. Laven                                                                                                              Phone: 770-7750

Penticton Secondary School                                                                                                 

158 Eckhardt Ave. E., Penticton       V2A 1Z3

 

Communications 11-12

 

Course Outline 2014-2015 

Communications 11 is a course that is designed to teach the communicating skills of reading, writing, listening and observing. Through various print, audio and visual media, ideas about communicating will be explored for their meaning.

Unit Objectives: 

1.    Writing: an analysis of sentence structure and sentence combining, will introduce the student to better sentence writing competency. A study of grammar will enable a better understanding of sentence structure. Ongoing. 

2.    Short story: reading short fiction will enable students to identify the elements and devices of literary composition. Ongoing 

3.    Novel study: a study of one or more novels will enhance an appreciation for works of longer fiction.  

The Pearl by Steinbeck 

Lord Of the Flies by William Golding 

4.    Drama: comparative studies of different works of drama, in the visual mode enable a critical analysis of interpreting theater.

The Taming of the Shrew by Wm. Shakespeare 

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 

5.    Poetry: readings of poems will provide an opportunity for the appreciation of the imaginative use of language and its application to lyrical prose.

Ongoing 

6.    Writing Skills – Ongoing  

7.    Film Study: a selection of biographical films will be analyzed for study of film as a learning medium.

Angela’s Ashes based on the novel by Frank McCourt  

Empire of the Sun based on the novel by J. G. Ballard and directed by Steven Spielberg

 

8.  Evaluation: 

Writing                                               30%

Classroom participation                    20%

Quizzes and tests                             20%

Projects                                            20%

Verbal response                               10% 

 

 

The Road Not Taken 

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

By Robert Frost