Grade 11 University Exam Preparation

Reading	Purpose
First- draft reading /10	●       Identify words and phrases you find confusing. Clear up your confusion by using the dictionary, inferencing or context clues. ●       Identify a variety of text features and explain how they help communicate meaning. ●       REACT: Write down your initial personal reactions.
Second-draft reading /10	●       Identify the most important ideas and the supporting details in the text. ●       Pick out themes.
Third-draft reading /10	●       Make and explain inferences of increasing subtlety about texts. ●       Make appropriate and increasingly rich connections between the ideas in the text and yourself, other texts, and the world. ●       Identify literary devices and figurative language.
Fourth-draft reading /10	●       As you read the article this time, try to imagine what might have motivated the author to write it. Generate questions you’d like to ask the author. ●       Write a thematic statement for the article. ●       Identify the author’s bias.

You will find your practice reading HERE.

Macbeth: 1.4-7

         

         Wednesday's work:
   
         1.  Duncan names Malcolm heir to the Scottish throne (Prince of Cumberland). Why does this present a problem for Macbeth?

          2. Read Act One, Scene 5. Draw one conclusion about Lady Macbeth from lines 37-53. Support your conclusion with a specific reference.

    3. Compare and contrast the personalities of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth,  based on their statements, especially in this scene.

      
Thursday's Work:

 Read Scene 7, reading the opening soliloquy three times, looking up unfamiliar words and references after the first reading.

1.     Identify the reasons Macbeth gives in his soliloquy at the start of Scene 7 for not killing Duncan.

2.     How does Lady Macbeth convince her husband to go ahead with the plan?

3.     Who seems more evil, in your opinion? Macbeth or Lady Macbeth? Why?

4.     The play makes certain assumptions about sex and gender. Identify one of these, and support your answer with a specific reference to Act I.

      Here are several versions of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy:



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0T_1tLpi4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDZsXCPvXHY

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgIIMDAR1DI

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GE6hm-UFMU

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUoh4KuYg8

The Hero and the Quest

The hero and the quest should be seen as a general pattern.  A hero-quest story need not have all elements to be regarded as following the archetype. Furthermore, each culture and writer will add a specific colouring to the tale.

Challenges may involve corrupt kings, dragons or monsters, personal challenges, often in a waste land or land of the dead.

Elements often found in the archetypal hero quest:

 

1.     The hero may appear to be of humble origins, but actually has a parent or parents who are special in some way.

2.     A sign marks the hero’s birth.

3.     When the hero is young, a threat may be made against the hero’s life.

4.     The hero is often raised by foster parents.

5.     The hero receives a call to adventure/ quest

6.     The hero may initially refuse the call.

7.     The hero heads on a quest.

8.     The quest often involves a clear threshold/jumping-off point/point of no return.

9.     The quest involves many challenges and temptations.

10.    The hero has a mentor figure, usually old and wise.

11.   The hero may have helpers and even divine aid, or a special weapon.

12.    The hero must enter a dead/strange/mysterious/unknown world/ waste land.

13.   Despite the assistants, the hero must face the final challenge alone.

14.    If the hero succeeds, he or she emerges changed. The hero has important knowledge, revelation, and self-knowledge.

15.   The hero returns, and may receive some kind of gift or reward.

16.    The hero’s death is often mysterious or uncertain.

17.    A myth may develop that the hero will return.

"On the Sidewalk, Bleeding"

The complete text of the story may be found here.

1. How does this story try to hook the reader’s attention at the start? (1)

2. What has occurred just before this story begins? (1)

3. Describe the main character. Include a physical detail and one aspect of personality. Support comments on personality with a specific reference to the story. (3)

4. Is Andy a round or flat character? Support your answer. (2)

5. Identify one mood for this story. Support your answer with a specific reference to the story. (2)

6. Why did the author choose to include the old woman in this story? (1)

7. Why does Andy remove his jacket? (1)

8. A theme is a statement or question a story makes about life in general. What is a possible theme of this story? (1)

Writing: (3)

MLA and Citations.

Almost everything you need to know about MLA format and citing sources may be found at this excellent and often-used academic site, and I urge you to explore it.

Some key information follows here:

1. The following information appears in the upper left-hand corner of the first page:

Your name
Instructor's name
Course
Due date

It would look something like:

Miranda J. Student
Mr. J. Instructor
ENG 3U1
May 12, 2017

2. The right hand corner of each page features your last name and the page number:
               
                                                                                                                                    Collins 2

3. The title of the paper is centered and typed in the same 12-point standard font as the rest of the assignments.

Despite what some students think, no rule requires that titles be typed in "Size Ginormous" font.

5. Double-space your assignments and indent each new paragraph.

If your assignment features subheadings, the first paragraph following a subheading is not indented.

(No, I am not just making that up).

Left-justify your margins.

6. An academic paper must cite the source of:

-direct quotations (these must also be indicated to be direct quotations)
-ideas and interpretations that are not yours
-information that is not "common knowledge" (easily accessible and not in dispute)
-statistics
-images

The reader should know, when he or she comes across this information, that the writer took it from some other source. Where applicable, the page number (45) or page number and author's name (Drescher 45) should appear following the quotation or information.

7. At the end of the assignment, on a separate "Works Cited" page, all sources should be listed.
    The list is alphabetical by author's last name.
    Where the author's name is not known, use the title.
    Entries are not numbered.
    Each entry begins at the margin. Indent each subsequent line of an entry.

8. Generally speaking you need (where applicable):

The author(s)
The title of the work
The title of the longer work in which a "shorter work" appears, and its editors.
The pages of the longer work on which a "shorter work" appears.
The version / edition of an often-published and revised source / date of access of a web source
Publisher / Hosting website
Publication date / date of last update of an online source
City of publication

For your samples of what each entry would look like, please see the Purdue site.

Conventional Plot Outline

Types of Narration

Sit down, and I'll tell you a story....

Narrative Point-of-view: The perspective and voice from which information and impressions are conveyed.  Determined by choice of narrator.:

First person: One character serves as narrator, telling the narrative from their point of view.  Includes words such as “I”, “me”, “mine”, “we”, “our”, et cetera.

Third Person: The story is told by an external voice observing the events. Third person narration may be further divided into omniscient, limited omniscient, and objective third person narrators (these terms, while problematic, are in general use).

Second Person: “You” are the narrator (rare). We might associate it with videogames and “choose your own adventure” books, but it has also appeared in more conventional literary works. One of Timothy Findley’s narrators in The Wars is a second-person narrator. “You” are a researcher in the 1970s, examining the life of the protagonist that is elsewhere in the novel narrated by third and first person narrators.)

Other experimental approaches to narration exist, but you will encounter them less often.