iii Introduction: What This Book Will Do for You viii NARRATION xii Unit 1 Dramatic Monologue: My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, To a Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje, Changes by D. Ginette Clarke 2 Analyzing the Models 8 Writer s Workshop 10 Writer s Craft: Style caesura and enjambment 12 Writer s Craft: Conventions nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections 13 Oral Language: metre in poetry 17 Reflect on Your Learning 19 Unit 2 Short Story: Borders by Thomas King 20 Analyzing the Model 31 Writer s Workshop 34 Writer s Craft: Style flashbacks 37 Writer s Craft: Conventions subjects and predicates, objects and subject complements to complete transitive and linking verbs 39 Oral Language: realistic dialogue 42 Media Link: juxtaposition of images in films 44 Reflect on Your Learning 44 Unit 3 Parody and Satire: Jack and the Beanstalk by James Finn Garner, The Golfomaniac by Stephen Leacock 46 Analyzing the Models 53 Writer s Workshop 54
iv Unit 4 Writer s Craft: Style stylistic devices to establish tone 56 Writer s Craft: Conventions phrases and clauses 58 Media Link: comic-strip parody 60 Reflect on Your Learning 61 Personal Narrative: Why I Write Poetry by Margaret Atwood 62 Analyzing the Model 72 Writer s Workshop 74 Writer s Craft: Style language and syntax 76 Writer s Craft: Conventions participles, gerunds, and infinitives 79 Media Link: techniques of presenting in a variety of media 83 Reflect on Your Learning 84 EXPOSITION 86 Unit 5 Unit 6 Literary Comparison: Trouble in Teendom by Jean Stringam 88 Analyzing the Model 94 Writer s Workshop 96 Writer s Craft: Style quotations within essay 101 Writer s Craft: Conventions capitalizing and punctuating quotations (MLA format) and citing works in a bibliography 104 Oral Language: researching and reporting 105 Reflect on Your Learning 106 Cause-and-Effect Essay: Living with Nature by David Suzuki, Send in the Clowns by Kristine Nyhout 108 Analyzing the Models 114 Writer s Workshop 115 Writer s Craft: Style parallel structure 118 Writer s Craft: Conventions verb tenses 121 Oral Language: panel discussion 124 Media Link: Web-page creation 125 Reflect on Your Learning 126
v Unit 7 Unit 8 Classification Essay: Underwear and Elevator Games by Don Aker 128 Analyzing the Model 132 Writer s Workshop 133 Writer s Craft: Style show by example, anecdote, and analogy 136 Writer s Craft: Conventions coordinating and subordinating conjunctions 137 Media Link: magazine creation 140 Reflect on Your Learning 141 Hard News Story: Divers open sub s hatch by Geoffrey York, For Australian Olympic officials, all medal roads lead to Rome from Vancouver Sun 142 Analyzing the Models 149 Writer s Workshop 150 Writer s Craft: Style connotations and concrete words 153 Writer s Craft: Conventions spelling patterns and strategies 155 Oral Language: oral news report 159 Media Link: different media coverage of an event 160 Reflect on Your Learning 160 PERSUASION 162 Unit 9 Persuasive Essay: Notes for a National Broadcast by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Why Dogs Are the Cat s Pyjamas by John Riley, A Dogged Defence of Our Feline Friends by James Taylor 164 Analyzing the Models 174 Writer s Workshop 175 Writer s Craft: Style credibility, logic, and emotion 178 Writer s Craft: Conventions synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and commonly misused words 183 Oral Language: persuasion in speeches 185
vi Unit 10 Unit 11 Unit 12 Media Link: use of credibility, logic, and emotional appeals in media 186 Reflect on Your Learning 186 Film Review: So good to see that big rubber foot again by Katrina Onstad, G2K : It s not easy being green, mean by Susan Wloszczyna 188 Analyzing the Models 193 Writer s Workshop 194 Writer s Craft: Style language appropriate to purpose, audience, and topic 196 Writer s Craft: Conventions commas, dashes, and parentheses 198 Media Link: film poster 200 Reflect on Your Learning 201 Problem Solution Essay: A Better Garbage Solution than Dumping in the Lake by Cameron Smith 202 Analyzing the Model 206 Writer s Workshop 207 Writer s Craft: Style wordiness 210 Writer s Craft: Conventions subject verb and pronoun antecedent agreement 212 Oral Language: debate 217 Media Link: problem solution format in a variety of media 218 Reflect on Your Learning 219 Advertisement: United Way, Nortel Networks, IBM Canada/HMV 220 Analyzing the Models 224 Writer s Workshop 226 Writer s Craft: Style design techniques 228 Writer s Craft: Conventions unconventional use of grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation 230 Media Link: analyzing television commercials 232 Reflect on Your Learning 233
vii WRITING THAT WORKS 234 Unit 13 Memos and E-mail 236 Analyzing the Models 243 Writer s Workshop 244 Writer s Craft: Style organizational pattern and voice 247 Writer s Craft: Conventions capitalization and writing numbers 248 Oral Language: oral presentation and voice mail 250 Reflect on Your Learning 251 Unit 14 Proposal: More Than Skin Deep 252 Analyzing the Model 259 Writer s Workshop 260 Writer s Craft: Style appropriate writing style 263 Writer s Craft: Conventions spelling correctly and avoiding dangling and misplaced modifiers 266 Oral Language oral presentation of a proposal 269 Reflect on Your Learning 271 Unit 15 Process Analysis: Creating a Successful Web Site by Doug Lowe 272 Analyzing the Model 281 Writer s Workshop 282 Writer s Craft: Style appropriate language style 284 Writer s Craft: Conventions design elements 285 Oral Language: explaining a process orally 287 Reflect on Your Learning 288 Appendix 290 Handbook 294 Index 336