Essays on What I Learned in Writing 12

Post them here for the other students to see if you wish.

Advice to Parents

What advice would you give to parents about disciplining their children? Write a short piece of approximately 300 words. Due before next class on Thursday, May 29th.

Link to Suzanne's piece at Writeboard.

That's Interesting!

Write a short piece for the category "That's Interesting." Choose an interesting person or event in your life to write about. Please do not write about the place you visited and wrote about in last week's travel journal! Also, avoid writing about any cultural event that you wrote about in a previous assignment for this course.

Travel Journal

Write a short article (300 to 500 words) about a place that you have visited as a traveller. As we read in Martin Li’s article, “Remember that most places you write about will already have been written about before. Your challenge is to find something new and original to say.”

Brad's Writeboard Edits

In the interest of saving some time, I have edited a few pieces to get them ready for The Pearson Buzz: The Beneficial Course: Civics Studies 11; Biology 12: Understanding the Human Body; All You Want to Know about Writing 12; Accounting 11: A Practical Choice ; My Teacher Louise

Check them to see what I've changed. Published at The Pearson Buzz: My Teacher Louise; The Beneficial Course: Civics Studies 11; Pyramid of Society.

Introductions to English 11 and 12 Pieces

Write a brief, 75 to 100-word, introduction to the piece. Make us want to read it and make clear why we chose it. Enjoy your time with Renuka and work hard. Thanks! Work on these this week as she would be pleased to see them and help you with your composition. Have them finished for sure by May 17th so I can publish on Victoria Day weekend. Yes, I will share some pictures with you on my return.

Ruth: Victoria's piece, Friendly Canada
Natalia: Catalina's, Halloween Every Day and Josephine's two pieces and Beatrice's, Maybe He Was Right (anyone want to volunteer to help Natalia?; let her know)
Suzanne: Andrew's, Pyramid of Society
Masaru: Teresa's Do I Need to . . .
Hongxin: Mavis's piece, Keeping Speed or Braking
Ben: Aileen's piece, Lack of Respect for Cashiers

Orphans that anyone can volunteer to do:

Renee's piece Always Waiting
Lola's piece Thorn in the Butt

Links to English 11 and 12 Articles

Use the links to read their articles. They have a deadline of Tuesday April 29 at 6:00 p.m. If you can comment on the articles you like the best and explain why before my classes on Wednesday, April 30, the students would appreciate it very much!

NOTE: Natalia's piece, "How I Robbed My Landlords" is published at The Pearson Buzz. Sorry, I didn't post earlier as I note you've done another revision. We can discuss in class tomorrow.

English 11 Rants
English 11 Cultural Differences

English 12 Rants
English 12 Cultural Differences

Top Ten Tips

Put your Top Ten Tips here, please.

Course Descriptions for Editing at Writeboard

Masaru's piece: All You Wanted to Know about "Writing 12"
Natalia's piece: Accounting 11
Suzanne's piece: The Beneficial Course: Civic 11
Ben's piece: Entrepreneurship
Hongxin's piece: DFT 12
Ruth's piece: Biology 12

Edits with Simile Added

Take any one of your previous pieces and see if you can improve it by adding a simile! Don't go overboard, however. A single simile is often enough!

NEW: Published today: Suzanne's piece on L and Masaru's piece on Brad.

Simile Simile Simile

Put your sample similes here. No need to do all ten unless you are as hardworking as a RAV line tunneler trying to get ready for the Olympics!

Teacher Profiles: Edits at Writeboard

For the teacher profiles you worked on this week, make the changes you suggest before next week's class. Be sure to identify yourself when you edit so we can see who made the changes. The password is writing12 for all writeboards. Please also check pieces you didn't have time for in class if you have ideas or edits to share.

NEW: Two articles published at pbuzz.net: An Upside Down World (Masaru) and St Barnabas Church (Natalia)

"My Teacher Louise"
A Young Teacher: Renuka
A Full Grown Prairie Soul Boy: Brad
A Wonderful Teacher: Cheryl
Teachers in PALC (L)

What Makes Us Laugh?

Post your stories and anecdotes here. Short pieces are fine. Suzanne's example about her granddaughter could be done in 100 to 150 words, for example, or expanded to include some other funny things said at other times.

Introducing a Course from a Student's Point of View

Put your drafts here before our next class on March 27. Have a great vacation everyone. There are some writeboards in below posts if you wish to do some editing work on existing pieces.

NOTE: Ben's piece, "How I Saved My Party" has been published at The Pearson Buzz
LINK: Writing a Book Review (sorry Masaru for not posting this earlier!)

Spring? Who Needs It!

Using the list of vocabulary we generated try writing about spring. One condition: write in a negative way about it! For example: "The red-breasted robins outside my window woke me up with their incessant chirping. Maybe I can find some bird poison at Home Depot!" or "The piles of cherry blossoms were slippery and made me fall and hurt my arm." Have fun!

NOTE: Natalia's piece, "An In-Between Time" has been published at The Pearson Buzz.

Teacher Profiles: Post Drafts Here

Link to Writeboard for editing suggestions. Same password as always.
Suzanne's piece on L, "Teachers in PALC"
Hongxin's piece "My Teacher Louise"
NEW: Ben's Piece "A Wonderful Teacher: Cheryl"

New Feature Articles

Please post here anything you are working on for The Pearson Buzz, either a new draft or a new article.

NOTE: Articles from Hongxin, Ruth, and Suzanne are published at The Pearson Buzz.

The Pearson Buzz: First Edition

Hi Everyone,

I have enough nearly completed articles to put together a first edition. If you have done edits for the articles from last week, please go to the Writeboard to do them before next week. Password is writing12. Even if not, please feel free to suggest edits.

Lessons I Have Learned (Masaru)

Between Two Cultures (Hongxin)

What a Day! (Max)

Customs and Traditions (Natalia)

My Experience about Cultural Difference (Ruth)

Introducing the PALC; Introducing The Pearson Buzz

Please put your two introductions together in one comment to this post. Remember to check and make suggestions for the piece of student writing you were given in class today. Bring it with you next week! See you on February 28th.

Articles for The Pearson Buzz

If you wish to contribute a new article (or post one from a previous exercise; for example, your writing on your home town) please post it here before next week's class.

We'll work on revisions to prepare for our first issue in a week or two.