Happy Penultimate Day of 2016

G6 - Poetry HW

Here is a reminder for the poem that you have to write for homework. It must meet the following requirements:

• Be at least 12 lines long
• Have an identifiable rhyming scheme (it cannot be free verse)
• Use the theme of We can make the world a better place if we try

Try to use alliteration, assonance, and consonance.

A World Without Wonder Woman?

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Student Political Parties

Click here for the Anti-Extremists Party

Click here for the Green Party

Click here for The African Political Party of Conservatism

G9 & G10 - Mid-Term Break

Click here for the lecture.

G10 - Speech Resource

For the student who requested the websites, 

here is the first, and here is the second.

G7 - Newspaper Project

Click here to access the folder.

My favourite poems

As requested by a wonderful student in G6, here are links to some of my favourite poems.

1. Death the Leveller by James Shirley - here
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats - here
3. Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney - here
4. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - here
5. The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young by William Blake - here
6. Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare - here
7. The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - here
8. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wifred Owen - here
9. The Jumblies by Edward Lear here

G9 & G10 Speech Rubric

Click here to add your topic. 

This will allow MC Paul to present you better.

G7 - So what colour was Jesus?

Click here for the story.

G7 - Black Pete

Click here to watch a video report on a Christmas tradition in the Netherlands. It is relevant to our focus in class now. If you want to read a more in-depth analysis of the issue, click here.

Sonnet 18

Click here.

Attenborough's Story of Life

Here for the Google Play download, and here for the Apple Store. Enjoy.

G7 - Jim Crow Laws

Here is the video from this morning, and here is the list of laws we looked at. 

Australian boys recreate life-saving drug

Click here.

G9 - Pale Blue Dot

Here is the video.  Here is the text.

G6 - Elements of Poetry

G7 - Prejudice Homework

Read the Getting to the Source of our Bias text. Answer the questions in your notebook. Here are some pointers:

• Q1 - Be honest and reflective. 
• Q3 - There are many facets (aspects / sides) to this, so think about this.
• Q6 - At least 3 groups.
• Q7 - Do any of the TV shows that you watch push certain stereotypes of gender or nationality?
• Q 8, 9, & 10 - Obviously, you can make these questions about any country you choose. I have added some links below to help you. 

This assignment is important to helping build understanding for the themes that tie our three novels together. As such, I expect that this will be given a lot of effort. The Getting to the Source of our Bias is the seed of this assignment, I trust that you will extend far beyond it. 

Eritrean Migrants to the EU

Australian lifetime visa ban

Trump on Ohio attacker

Syrian Refugees in Canada