Miss Ralph from the Couch

The update…

• Hi Grade 12, I got really sick • I may not be in for Mon and Wed classes• This means that individual feedback on your irony

responses will be delayed• However, I can give general tips to you all re exam-style

writing• It means that your second irony response will not

happen…yet…(phew, right?)• So just focus on the exam, which I will do my best to

help you with from home

Sometimes my antibiotics make me feel like this:

But when I do feel like this I swear I will stop making this PowerPoint and resume it later ;)

Your Exam

• Will look exactly like the BC Provincial one that you will do in June.

• PART A: will include a short text.• You will answer 7 multiple choice questions• Then you will write a 150 word response

about it.• The first part of PART A looks like this….

The written response question looks like this:

Time for a break…starting to see this:

PART B

• In PART B, you will read a longer text sample (it will be an excerpt from a story, or a complete very short story)

• Again, you will answer 7 multiple choice questions

• Then you will write a longer response, this time 300 words, multi paragraph, essay format

• It will look like this:

• IMPORTANT:• FOR YOUR MID-YEAR EXAM, IT WILL NOT BE

A COMPARE/CONTRAST (Like it was in my example, previous slide)• IT WILL BE ABOUT ONE TOPIC and ONE TEXT

ONLY

• Example question: discuss symbolism in ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’.

Let’s see some ideas…

BEFORE STARTING MY ESSAY I WOULD WRITE THIS:

So what do the multiple choice questions look like, pray tell?

MONDAY = PRACTICE• TODAY: complete the multiple choice

questions for ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’• Then, try the essay question I have included• You may not get time to finish it, but try!• Whoever the teacher is with you has the

answers to the multiple choice questions.• Cool, start that now Grade 12’s • TRUST ME, this practice is worth it.

I BELIEVE IN YOU GRADE

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