Happy Easter, everyone!  For those of you who have agreed to keep working on the research essay, I hope you were able to find/recover enough research to write a shorter essay.  Once you have that, the next step is to figure out exactly what you are proving.....develop your thesis statement.  This is the one sentence that reveals to the reader exactly what you will be proving by reading this essay.  That is what we will use this week for - narrowing down the thesis to a tight and functional statement.  Below, I will post a couple of links to the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University, to help you figure out your focus.  Once you have a focus, it is easy to fit your research into a cohesive essay. 

If you are not on "Teams," could you please email your thesis statement to me this week, then start organizing your research in the most effective way to prove your thesis.

For those who proposed to do the book study first, that is certainly possible - I am still working on that; stay tuned!

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/thesis_statement_tips.html

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/index.html

Happy Easter, Everyone!  I heard from probably 3/4 of you last week, and everyone said that they had a book they could read and analyze.  For those of you who didn't get back to me, I would love to hear about what you might have at home that we could work with - we can adapt almost anything, so just let me know.

The first element we will consider this week is the setting of the story.  In the documents posted below, I have one that reviews what setting is, and has the assignment questions.  The other document is sample answers.  I will do the book study with you, but I will do three books: a fiction book (Wonder, by Emma Donahue), a non-fiction (true story) book (Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson), and a graphic novel (The Adventure Zone: Here There be Gerblins by the McElroy Brothers and Carey Pietsch).  Hopefully, the sample answers will guide you as you figure out the setting of the book you are reading.  

Remember, also, that every book is different.  You may need to adapt the questions a bit to suit your own book.  You don't have to ask to do that - it shows critical thinking, and I will be able to figure out why you had to change things up a bit for your book.

I will post this on "Teams," as well - you can send your answers in right there, and ask any questions by hitting "reply" underneath the post.  If you would rather just grab things from here, and email your responses, you can contact me at jean.macdonald2@nbed.nb.ca.

Happy reading!

Hi everyone!  It will be so great to connect with you again.  Since it will be difficult to complete a Shakespeare play as planned, we will move on to the next unit, which would have been an independent book study.  That should work better as a home learning option.  What I would like you to be thinking of this week is:  What do you have access to read?  Some of you will have books at home that you are interested in, some will have access to books online, some will be able to get audio books, some may prefer an online biography of someone you admire.  Even if all you can access is a newspaper from a month ago, we can work with that.

So, your assignment for this week is simply: 1) get in touch with me somehow - my email is jean.macdonald2@nbed.nb.ca.  I have also set up a Team in the Microsoft 365 online program.  It is called Language Arts 9 Period 3, and the code to join is 49favsn. If you go in to assignments, you will see the same question as above, and should be able to respond to it.  I am learning all of this, too, so if you see anything that isn't working, please email me.