Final homework questions

Question 1: what is the best science fiction movie and why?

Question 2: if you could see the future without being able to change it, would you?

In total, your answers to these two questions should amount to150 words.

Assignment for Monday November 25

Dear students,

Here is a link to an article called "the 150 things the world's smartest people are afraid of" from Motherboard magazine:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/what-150-of-the-worlds-smartest-scientists-are-worried-about

Read through them, some will be difficult to understand (lots of science terminology) so if you may skip some if you like.

Choose the 3 that you feel are the biggest concerns for humanity in the future. Write a paragraph about why you feel this is a big concern (50 words each paragraph).

Then choose something about the future that makes you feel hopeful or excited (wearable technology for example) and write about paragraph of your thoughts on the matter (50 words). Why does this excite you? How will it change the world in the future? How will it make our lives better? are some questions to consider for your answer.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.

Mr. O'Connor

Long Weekend Homework (Nov. 17)

Hey class,

I hope you are enjoying the long weekend.

In case you forgot, you do have an assignment for Language Arts class. In at least 200 words, answer the following question:

Liberalist theory interprets human history as a constant evolution of our society. Essentially, we are getting better and better as time passes. For example, we progressed from monarchical forms of government to democracy, and from slavery and discrimination to equal rights for everyone regardless of race or gender. Do agree with this interpretation of world history? Why or why not? Be sure to provide some examples in your answer.

Also, be sure to write in full sentences and meet the word minimum. Some of you are providing responses that are only one or two sentences long, which is inappropriate for written Language Arts assignments. If I don't specify a word minimum, assume that I want you to write at least a paragraph.

Basically I just want you to show me that you put some thought into the homework. If you think you can do this in a few sentences then go for it, but if you want to be safe (meaning, if you want a 9 or 10 for your homework mark) then write as much as you can without repeating yourself or going off topic.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mr. O'Connor

Superhero questions November 13

1. What can we learn from comic books and superheroes? 

2. If you could choose any superpower which would it be and why?

For full marks be sure to answer in complete sentences with at least 75-100 words per question.

Short Stories

Dear Students,

I'm very impressed with the short stories you've submitted. You can see my comments underneath the post with a grade out of 10 (Vero Alcalde I couldn't comment on yours for some reason but you got a 10, Ian I couldn't open yours for some reason). If you would like to improve the grade I gave you, follow my suggestions for improvement and repost in a new blog entry.

For those of you who still haven't submitted a story, you have until tomorrow night with a one point deficit on the grade (so the highest you can receive is a 9).

In case you're wondering, I'm making this story count for half your homework grade which will make it 15% of the total. The other half goes to your personal story, favourite character description, joke etc.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mr. O'Connor

Correction

I made a mistake. The verb tenses on the test will be Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect Continuous (p. 35 in your textbooks) NOT Present Perfect. Any questions, let me know.

Practice exercises for the exam

Dear students,

Below is a link to some practice exercises you can use to study for Monday's exam. Remember, the tenses covered are; past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and present perfect.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

Good luck and I'll see you Monday!