Sept 29 2025 - Shift In Activity Today - Only 8 Students In Attendance Due to Grade 8 Volleyball

Only 8 Students In Attendance Due to Grade 8 Volleyball

Elements of a Short Story & Paragraph Structure & Transitionary Words Lesson & Canadian Geographic Films presents: Returning Home, a film by Sean Stiller

Attendance

Silent Read 20 min

“Elements of a Short Story” - Presentation

Show the below teacher presentation - students will fill in the blanks on their student PowerPoint copies.

Teacher PowerPoint - to review with Class

Student Hand Outs - student version - Again, these are already at the front of the room printed out. Please ensure you’re handing out elements of short stories PowerPoint package. Student fill in the blanks. 

 

Next - Paragraph Structure & Transitionary Words - 

Lesson Outline:

1. Introduction:

    • What is the purpose of a paragraph?
    • Why do we need transition words?
  • Write on the board: "A paragraph is like a mini-essay. It has a clear beginning, middle, and end."


2. Mini Lecture & Notes 

Students should copy the following notes into their notebooks:

Notes: Paragraph Structure and Transition Words

1. Paragraph Structure:

  • Topic Sentence:

    • The first sentence in a paragraph.
    • Introduces the main idea clearly and concisely.
    • Answers the question: What is this paragraph about?

  • Supporting Sentences:

    • Provide evidence, examples, or explanations to support the topic sentence.
    • Include specific details to make your writing clear and interesting.

  • Concluding Sentence:

    • The last sentence in a paragraph.
    • Restates the main idea and wraps up the paragraph.
    • Helps transition to the next idea.

2. Transition Words:

  • Why use transition words?

    • They connect ideas and make your writing smoother and easier to follow.

  • Types of Transition Words:

    • For Addition: furthermore, moreover, in addition, also.
    • For Contrast: however, on the other hand, nevertheless, but.
    • For Cause and Effect: because, therefore, as a result, consequently.
    • For Examples: for instance, for example, such as.
    • For Conclusion: in conclusion, to sum up, overall, finally.

3. IF TIME: Guided Practice 

  1. Activity 1: Build a Paragraph - Pair Work!!!


  • Write a paragraph on the topic: "The best season of the year and why," using at least three transition words.

Be ready to present!!!! 

If Time - Pairs - present in class! Students to keep their work!

To end class - In prep for Day of Truth & Reconciliation Sept 30 - 2min

Canadian Geographic Films presents: Returning Home, a film by Sean Stiller


RETURNING HOME examines Canada's residential school legacy and the decimation of wild Pacific salmon as two threads in one revelatory story about a world where relationships are severed in the service of power — and complex webs of interdependence between culture and identity, tradition and the future, bind it all.

RETURNING HOME, the debut feature from Can Geo Films and filmmaker Sean Stiller, follows Orange Shirt Society-founder Phyllis Jack-Webstad on a nationwide educational tour while her family struggles to heal multigenerational wounds at home in Secwépemc territory. By bearing witness to the trauma experienced by Phyllis and her family, RETURNING HOME holds a mirror to the trauma experienced by the natural world, too. For the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are one and the same.


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