Write a post in response to a text you read in ELA 20 in which you discuss 3-5 ideas the text creator suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self.

Consider the course focus:

The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind of people we are. To understand who we are and to develop fully as human beings, we must explore the nature of our humanness and the purpose of our lives.

• Who and what are we?
• What are the common human qualities and ideals we hold?
• What roles do other people (e.g., friends, family) play in our lives?
• What brings us joy, inspiration, and fulfillment?
• What doubts and fears do we have? By examining our lives and searching for answers to these and other questions, we can find meaning and fulfillment as human beings.

Consider the rubric:

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Write a post in response to The Shack in which you discuss 3-5 ideas WM Paul Young suggests to you about The Human Condition-In Search of Self.

Consider your discussions of key questions in the STJ forums on The Shack (login required).

Consider your many class discussions on the four postulates:

1. Can something come from nothing?
2. Does God exist?
3. Do humans have immortal soul?
4. Do humans have free will?

Consider the course focus:
The most profound discovery that we can make is our discovery of self. Our identity rests in the kind of people we are. To understand who we are and to develop fully as human beings, we must explore the nature of our humanness and the purpose of our lives. Who and what are we? What are the common human qualities and ideals we hold? What roles do other people (e.g., friends, family) play in our lives? What brings us joy, inspiration, and fulfillment? What doubts and fears do we have? By examining our lives and searching for answers to these and other questions, we can find meaning and fulfillment as human beings.

Consider the rubric:

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Part A of the Alberta ELA 9 Achievement test is itself in 2 parts:

1. Narrative/Essay
2. Business Letter

Suggestions for Preparing to Write the Narrative/Essay:

Assessment of the Narrative / Essay Writing
Assignment on the achievement test will be in the context of Louise Rosenblatt’s suggestion that “the evaluation of the answers would be in terms of the amount of evidence that the youngster has actually read something and thought about it, not a question of whether, necessarily, he has thought about it the way an adult would, or given an adult’s ‘correct’ answer.”
Rosenblatt, Louise. “The Reader’s Contribution in the Literary Experience: Interview with Louise Rosenblatt.” By Lionel Wilson. English Quarterly 14, no. 1 (Spring, 1981): 3–12.

Consider also Grant P. Wiggins’ suggestion to assess students’ writing “with the tact of Socrates: tact to respect the student’s ideas enough to enter them fully—even more fully than the thinker sometimes—and thus the tact to accept apt but unanticipatable or unique responses.”
Wiggins, Grant. P. Assessing Student Performance:
Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993, p. 40.

Example Assignment for Writing a Narrative or Essay

Example Student Response for Writing a Narrative or Essay

Suggestions for Preparing for Writing the Business Letter:
Wikipedia on business letter

Business Letter tips from OWL and more tips from OWL

Sample business letters from OWL

Canada Post Addressing Guide

Format of a Business Letter

Envelope of a Business Letter

Example Assignment of a Business Letter

Example Student Response to Business Letter Assignment

Alberta Education links to Samples of Student Writing

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Compare and contrast how the following two poems deal with the theme of separation from a loved one:

• The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound(a translation from original by Li Po)
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

Focus on such aspects as imagery, symbolism, archetypes, mood, and characterization. Quote directly from the poems to support your points.

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According to Marshall McLuhan, television is a “cool” medium because it provides little information and makes the user fill in what is missing. How do the House Hippo and Media Monkey ads make the user fill in the information?

House Hippo

Media Monkey

Do young people accept what they see in media as being reality? Provide specific examples to support your opinion.

Facts on Childhood Issues

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Say you are writing a post and want to include a math equation of some kind. HTML or BBcode, won’t help.

You have 2 options:

1. create the equation using Microsoft Equation Editor (while working in a Word document) then save the equations as png or jpg and upload them to your blog.
2. activate the WP LaTeX plugin (Dashboard–>Plugins) and insert some latex code from the online LaTeX equation editor.

   The following shortcode will produce this LaTeX image:

   
   Similarly, this y=\sqrt{(x+3) a^2+b^2}
   will produce this:
   

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I stumbled onto an online function grapher that pumps out nice looking graphs of non-linear equations:

I used a screen grab (Command+Shift+4 on a Mac), saved, and renamed the picture and uploaded it to this blog’s media library.

I haven’t figured out how to print and upload screen caps using the T-83, yet. I’ll need to download software, which at home is simple enough, but the iMacs in the lab won’t have the Connect Software.

Anyway, graphs such the above example have some advantages over the T-83 graphs, I figure.

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Look at the weather map on page 48. Could it be smaller? Seriously. There is an even more indecipherable example in the teacher’s guide, which when photocopied is just plain impossible to see anything.

So, here’s an up to date Environment Canada weather map from http://weatheroffice.gc.ca/model_forecast/index_e.html

September 15, 2009 atmospheric pressure measured in hectopascals (hPa)

Example questions:

1. What is the lowest pressure in Canada predicted by this map?
2. What is the highest pressure in Canada predicted by this map?
3. What are the atmospheric pressures in Vermilion, Toronto, and Victoria?

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If you start with some stuff, then later you have more or less stuff, what percentage did the amount of stuff you have change?

Comparing two numbers by describing its “percentage increase/decrease/change” is a common math skill.

Now keep in mind that to an English student the words “increase” and “decrease” are obviously opposite, but to a Math student the words can mean the same thing – a negative increase is equivalent to a positive decrease.

If you start with 40 “stuff” and end with 20 “stuff” would you describe it as a 50% decrease or a -50% increase?

http://www.ehow.com/how_4449676_calculate-percentage-increase.html

http://www.marshu.com/articles/calculate-percentage-increase-decrease-percent-calculator.php

http://www.tellmehowto.net/howto/calculate_percentage_change_6409

http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Calculate-Percentage-Change

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Answer #2 page 14

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Have a look at the Glyphs project from the Applied Math 11 project book.

Pick your partner.
Pick your topic.
Plan your project.

Look at the timeline for Topic 1. When is it due?

What day next week will be a work on project class. What will you need to do to prepare?

In 8-10 days, what will your final project be about and what will it look like? What will we be able to hang on the walls?

Leave a comment summarizing your decisions so far about the project.

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Someone asked me how many books we could buy for $14000 in one of the problems in Tutorial 1.1, but the way we looked at the linegraph, we were trying to price out 14,000 books. Holy Smokes!!!

Simply find $14,000 on the y-axis, look across at the red line then down to the x-axis … there’s the number of books.

We’ll try to do the best thinking we can with the problems raised tomorrow.

Another tip, the data from a graph may have once been in a table/spreadsheet, put it back and you may see a pattern there as well.

Thanks for sharing texts for the first day, should have new ones tomorrow from BSS in Wainwright.

Looking ahead, does everyone have a graphing calculator?

Course Outline

Detailed plan and timeline for Topic 1: Graphing and Design

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