before the end of term...key dates etc

to be completed: the essay part of the verbal visual essay crime and criminals - complete that research report on your chosen criminal culminating activity/isp based on biography (hope you are all reading) (15% of final) get those blogs up to date and some crime and criminals stuff some dates: vv essay due Mon the 14th (time to work on it on the 8th and 9th) blogs due fri the 18th isp stuff due Tue the 22nd written exam(15% of final) is on the last day of exams: Wed. Jan 30

2012: What Brought Us Together

#28 the curious incident - overall - thoughts

the book overall did you like it.....best part?......worst part?....favourite character? least favourite? etc. overall thoughts

this

Temple Grandin On Mark Zuckerberg and Overcoming Autism

Golden Globes 2011: Claire Danes - Best Performance By An Actress In A M...

Dec 5 - A Wanted Poster - Who Killed Wellington? --include relevant details. who , what when, where, why etc

mon dec 3

handout read update blogs pick a criminal to research....no research today.....other than pick a bad guy (or gal) research report to follow

#27 Christopher Boone and you

seriously, list the ways you are like Christopher.....seriously,....list the similarities

Temple Grandin and Christopher Boone - similarities

- very smart - don't like being touched - have difficulty understanding emotion - like being on their own - like animals - photographic memory - fear of social situations - think in pictures - fear of strangers - stress for parents - late social development - can be upset / set off easily - very particular about food - from single parent home - like solving certain kinds of puzzles - very specific interests - seem nosy / asks lots of questions

TEDxToronto -- MADE WADE and Truth Is - Redefining Poetry

#26 Curious Incident - ch 139 - Predictions

so make some predictions... a)what will happen to the "murder investigation"? b)what will happen to the relationship between Chris and his father? c)predict one major surprise that will happen in the second half of the story? answer in your blog and post your answers also in the hand in: V:\McGuchan\3C Curious Incident predictions

#25 the Temple Grandin film

10-15 points/opinions/thoughts on the film random order point form that's it

Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds

#24 Curious...to ch 67

How do you feel about Christopher at this point?....do you like him? explain

Jonathan's Autism Awareness Video

#23 the curious novel...intro

26 pages in your thoughts on this different book so far....do you like it? / is the subject matter interesting? / what stands out so far?

#22 the curious incident ...narrative style

the narrative style of the book is "different".....it is told through the eyes of a boy with autism...it contains, drawings. charts etc...and it has short "prime number" chapters do you like the style so far? Explain.

#21 autism

from the article and the two videos (Stephen Wiltshire and Jake the child prodigy), what do you think is the most important thing you have learned about autism so far? Explain.

Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire

The Autism Project: Students with autism fend for themselves - thestar.com

The Autism Project: Students with autism fend for themselves - thestar.com

#20 the teen paparazzo kid

five sentence character sketch (one intro sentence/one concluding sentence and three "evidence' sentences) sum up Austin Visschedyk (the paparazzo kid)

#19 teenage paparazzo

Adrian Grenier made the film to "try to make sense of this insane celebrity culture" do you think he succeeded? In five sentences, explain what you learned about the celebrity-obsessed world in which we live.

HBO Documentary Films: Teenage Paparazzo Trailer #1 (HBO)

#18 The Body - overall theme? - explain

#17 The Body favourite scene...why?

#16 The Body favourite character and why

Plot summary Vern Tessio informs his three friends that he has overheard his older brother Billy talking with his friend Charlie Hogan, about the location of the corpse of Ray Brower, a boy from Chamberlain, a town 40 miles or so east of Castle Rock, who has gone missing, while going out to pick blueberries with one of his mother's pails. The four friends decide that they will find it so as to be famous. The boys walk along the railroad tracks toward the presumed location of the corpse. Along the way, they trespass at the town dump and are chased by trash-man Milo Pressman's dog "Chopper". Milo insults Teddy's father, which causes Teddy to unleash his anger on Milo. Gordie and Vern are nearly run over by a train while crossing a bridge. While at a resting point, Chris predicts that Gordie will grow up to become a famous writer – perhaps he will even write about his friends one day. When they finally find the spot where the body lies, a gang of bullies arrives just after they do. The gang is composed of Vern's older brother Billy, Charlie Hogan, Chris's older brother Richard "Eyeball" Chambers, Norman "Fuzzy" Bracowicz, John "Ace" Merrill, and two others. The older boys are upset to see the four friends, and during an argument, Chris pulls a gun belonging to his father from his bag back, that he took from his home and fires into the air and then threatens Ace, the leader of the gang. After a brief standoff Ace realizes that Chris is serious, and the teenagers leave. Having seen the body, the boys realize that there is nothing else to be done with it, and return home without further incident. The older boys ultimately decide to phone in the location of the body as an "anonymous tip" and it is eventually found by the authorities as a result. Some days after the confrontation, Ace and Fuzzy break Gordie's nose and fingers and kick him in the testicles, and are on the verge of harming him more seriously when they are run off by Gordie's neighbor, Aunt Evvie Chalmers. Chris's brother breaks his arm and "leaves his face looking like a Canadian sunrise". Teddy and Vern get less severe beatings. The boys refuse to identify their assailants to the authorities, and there are no further repercussions. The narration then goes into fast-forward. Gordon describes the next year or so briefly, stating that Teddy and Vern drift off, befriending some younger boys. In high school, just as Chris predicted, Gordie begins taking college-preparation courses. Unexpectedly, so does Chris. In spite of abuse from his father, taunts from his classmates and distrust from teachers and school counselors, he manages to be successful with help from Gordie. The final two chapters describe the fate of Gordie's three friends, none of whom survive past young adulthood. Vern is killed in a house fire after a party. Teddy, while under the influence of alcohol and drugs, crashes his car and he and his passengers are killed. Chris, who became an outstanding high school and college student and was in his second year of law school, is stabbed to death after trying to stop an argument in a fast-food restaurant. Gordon, the only survivor, continues to write stories through college, and publishes a number of them in small literary journals and men's magazines. His first novel becomes a best-seller, and a successful film. At the time of writing about the events in 1960, he has written seven novels about the supernatural. Gordon has a wife and three children. Gordon is also revealed to be a veteran of the Vietnam War and the counter-culture of the 1960s, occasionally referred to in the flash-forward narratives during the main story.

Fame and Greatness

some collage examples: - photoshop - nascar - rolex - john Lennon - Usain Bolt - Howard Stern - Tim Tebow - Tim McGraw - Elvis - Justin Bieber - The White House - Buckingham Palace - The Royals - Tiger Woods - Lamborghini - IPAD - The Beatles - Twilight - Ellen - Obama - Slash - $ - Kim Kardashian etc...etc....etc

essay conclusion example

Essay Conclusion Example Essay Thesis: Christopher McCandless had a death wish Points in Support: He would never had gone to such a “dangerous” location in the first place He was deeply upset by people and modern life in general He was deeply upset by the lies and deceptions of his family Sample Conclusion: Into the Wild is a tragic story of a young man who “drops out” of modern life and dies a slow , painful death in the Alaskan wilderness. The story of how Christopher McCandless came to die alone in Denali National Park is a very complicated one. When one looks at this long, painful journey, it is clear that McCandless wanted to die. In fact, he had a death wish. He was so affected by his parents’ deceptions and lies that he no longer saw any point in living. Indeed, all around him, he saw a society that he saw was corrupt and fake. Feeling this way, he decided to set off an a crazy adventure to live off the land in the harshest environment in North America. Of course, it was doomed to failure. Clearly , Chris was someone who had experienced enough pain in his family life and as a member of society, and he set out on a course that could only end in his death. This is what he wanted. Christopher McCandless no longer wanted to live in North American society so he went on a journey to ensure he wouldn’t have to anymore.

body paragraph example

Example for paragraphs 2-4 (the body paragraphs/the evidence which you choose to support your thesis) example thesis: Christopher McCandless was too innocent of a person example point: Nature is no place for an innocent person. Innocence is often considered an appealing or positive quality. Someone who is innocent is generally a likeable character worthy of admiration. However, in Into the Wild, Christopher McCandless was simply too innocent. To succeed in the world he had chosen, Christopher needed some very specific characteristics. He had chosen to live in a harsh, natural environment., which would test his very limits. Unfortunately, he was not suited to his world. When it came time to shoot an elk, he could not do it because it was with her calf. As he eventually died of starvation, this was obviously a poor choice. He was also unprepared for all of the demands of the harsh environment from the lack of food, the cold and the ever-changing landscape. This eventually led to his death when his escape route home was cut off by a raging river swollen by spring floods. A less innocent person would have had a greater understanding of the ways of the outdoors and would not have suffered in the same way. Finally, his innocence was shown in the fact that he mistook one safe plant for another dangerous one, also leading to his death. If he was less innocent, he would have understood that nature can be very dangerous and would not have made such a mistake. Innocence can be a wonderful thing. It can be a positive, endearing quality. However, in the harsh environment of the Alaskan wilderness, it can also be fatal It was for Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild. It may be a unfair criticism of this fine yoiung man, but it is certainly true that Chris was simply too innocent to survive in his harsh new world.

#15 ★ Eddie Vedder - Society - Christopher McCandless was ......complete the five sentence paragraph

Stand By Me (trailer)

#14 The Body...the end

almost finished,...don't look at the end....no, really....don't look and do write the last paragraph of the story as you might imagine Stephen King would minimum five sentences......finish it....in your blog (has to make sense of course with respect to all that has gone before)

#13 The Body

almost finished ......what to you has been the most memorable part fo the story ...why?

tasks for challenge days oct 10 and oct11

firstly, read the three chapters in the Body and complete the handout secondly, the previous entry was a humourous personal narrative flesh it out a little...add details.....make sure characters are clearly developed, make sure setting is clear, make it about one very funny event, make sure there is a beginning, a middle and an end and proofread it (make sure it contains paragraphs), come up with an interesting title and finish it....print it out ..to be handed in

next task: a humourous personal narrative

tell a funny story....something that happened to you preferably.....pick a spot to begin the story...include the relevant details...tell it in first-person narration...and wrap it up.....and make it humourous....easy

Test Wednesday

the stories etc know the terms plot (incl...introduction/inciting incident/rising action/climax/resolution) (and plot graphs) ..................setting.......narration........characterization...........conflict(s).........themes and parts of speech....noun....verb...adjective...adverb....pronoun...preposition....interjection...conjunction and paragraph structure....intro sentence....body points/evidence....conclusion

#12...so the Body ...end of ch19

make one significant prediction about what you think might from here on in.....will they stay together?...will they find the body?...will it be what they think it is? etc explain your thinking

work for today Sept 27, 2012

in computer lab 239 1. blogs update including ch 17 of The Body 2. Read "The Sniper" and complete the handouts 3. Complete the review handout in preparation for next week's test....due tomorrow if time, read on in The Body and make sure your blog is up to date

#11 The Body ch 17...answer the following questions in your blog

1. Why are boys so disappointed with the ending to the pie-eating contest story (378)? 2. Why does Gordie say on pg 381 that: "It's scary to find out that someone else, even a friend, knows just how things are with you."? 3. What was the one cardinal rule for kids in those days (381)? 4. We learn a great deal about Chris Chambers at the end of this chapter....what one thing did you learn about him? Explain

#10...so bullying ....

your thoughts on the subject....who , what , when , where , why , whatever say something.................it's subject you all know something about

#9 The Body --theme

pick one theme of the story so far and explain why you chose that theme in a minimum of five sentences.

sept 24 Folder Contents

Intro: 1. Student Info Sheet 2. Blog ok signature 3. Parts of Speech 4. The Great Discovery 5. My first week of school (paragraph) Characters in Conflict: 1. The Body q's etc 2. The Lunch Date - plot graph 3. The Monsters are due on Maple Street 4. The Sea Devil qs Fame and Greatness Unit 1. celebrity assignment

#8 ch 14

what effect will the train incident of the boys' relationships going forward?

#7 Research

Research a story about mass hysteria...about scapegoats...about people becoming so scared they behaved in a strange manner...or when the crowd made people do strange and bizarre things like in the "witch " posted in the blog find an example and write about it , explaining W5 (who what , when, where and why) in your blog this explanation must be 8-1- sentences in length

fear, scapegoats and hysteria

#6 The Body ch 13

Why do you think Milo Pressman's taunting of Teddy about his father got to him so much? Explain in a minimium of five sentences.

wed sept 19 instructions

1, questions/handout from yesterday on the play....complete/to be handed in tomorrow 2. read ch 13 in The Body" 3. update blogs

The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are on Maple Street part 2

The Monsters Are On Maple Street 1/2

#5 click on the link below and in five sentences , share your opinion of this story

Edmonton 'zero' teacher fired | Canada | News | The London Free Press

#4 your celebrity chosen

in five sentences , explain the greatest conflict your celebrity faced 1. the type of conflict...person vs self , person vs media etc 2-4 explaining it 5. summing it up

#3 The Lunch Date

the more interesting character.....who?....why?...at least five sentences....an introduction, a conclusion and at least three sentences explaining your choice

The Lunch Date

A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition - YouTube

A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition - YouTube

#2 the first week of the school year

sum it up in three words:

#1 your 12 year old self

in at least five sentences, what would you tell your ftwelve year old self today?....you have acquired a few years experience and wisdom (we hope) ...given that, what would you like to tell that perosn from 3-5 years ago?

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