To prepare for any long journey, you need to ensure you have adequate supplies.  As an English student, words will support and sustain you throughout this course.  To ensure you're ready for the next stage in your journey, you'll complete this Unit 2 vocabulary exercise. However, you don't need to worry.  Your evaluation will not be based on what you know and don't know. 

If you do not know what the word means, leave it blank.

1. In your own words, define each of the following terms and use it in a separate sentence:
   1. curating
   2. auxiliary
   3. empathize
   4. Guerrilla Art
   5. bridge
   6. cohorts
   7. conventions
   8. grammarian
   9. succinctly
   10. astray
   11. aesthetic
   12. fables
   13. synaesthesia
   14. persevere
   15. linguistic
   16. pragmatic
   17. genealogy
   18. codified
   19. stanza
   20. lexicon
   21. canonized
   22. contemporary
   23. epiphany
   24. archetype
   25. innate
   26. accolades
   27. fanfic
   28. montage
   29. monogramming
   30. webinar
   31. ephemeral
        

2. For each word, indicate whether you knew it before the course or learned it during the course.  For the words you don't know, identify ways in which you might determine the meaning of the word (e.g., by using context clues, identifying the meaning of prefixes or suffixes, or using an online dictionary).  Then select three words you did not know and define them.

Seek two short fiction texts that relate to the course's bildungsroman focus, as well as the course's main inquiry question: how do the texts with which we engage affect and influence us and our place in the world?  

After finding these two texts, answer the following questions:

1. What type of short fiction texts did you select?
2. Why did you select these two texts?
3. Where did you find these texts?
4. How do these texts relate to the course's bildungsroman focus?
5. How do these texts relate to the course's main inquiry question: how do the texts with which we engage affect and influence us and our place in the world?  In other words, you will find two short fiction texts that not only relate to the idea of growing up and maturing, but that have also influenced you, your beliefs, or your understanding of your place in the world.

Now that you've read the song and poem mentor texts, answer the following questions in either a written or oral recording.

1. Which mentor text did you find more enjoyable?  Why?
2. Identify one before, during and after reading strategy you used to help you understand the mentor texts.  For each strategy, briefly explain how it specifically helped you understand the mentor texts.
3. Summarize each text in one sentence.  Briefly explain why you believe this is the most important idea in the mentor text.
4. Who do you believe is the intended audience for each mentor text?  Justify your answer.
5. Based on your own experience, do you find each mentor text convincing?  Explain why or why not.
6. How does the use of evidence in each mentor text clarify its theme?
7. For each mentor text, select one piece of evidence, identify the evidence type, and explain why it is effective.
8. What effect would a change in gender or ethno-cultural background have on the way the events are described in each mentor text?
9. How does the organization of each mentor text contribute to its meaning?
10. Identify one text feature from each mentor text and explain how it helps to communicate meaning.
11. Identify one element of style from each mentor text and explain how it helps to enhance the effectiveness of the mentor text.
12. How could hearing or seeing the text help you to better understand it?

Take a moment to re-read the polished short story that you wrote earlier.  Then, complete the following questions.

1. After reading the mentor text, identify one content change (addition, modification or deletion) you would make to your original text.  Explain why you would make this change and how it improves your original text.
2. After reading the mentor text, identify one organizational change (addition, modification or deletion) you would make to your original text.  Explain why you would make this change and how it improves your original text.
3. If you were to include an additional literary device in each original text, what would it be?  How would it improve your text?
4. Who was your audience for your text?  How did you develop your texts to appeal to that audience? 
5. Select a different audience and explain how you would have to change your original text to appeal to that audience.  
6. How does your short story demonstrate your growth as a writer? Explain your thinking.

This assignment has several component parts.  You must complete them in the order listed.

1. After viewing the short film mentor text, use specific evidence from it to explain how each of the following skills and strategies are used to communicate the message effectively.  
   1. Voice
   2. Tone
   3. Body language
   4. Staging
   5. Transitions
   6. Film conventions 
2. After completing the analysis above and reviewing and reflecting on your previous critical analysis answers, you will create your own webinar that answers the question: How do the short fiction films with which we engage affect and influence us and our place in the world?
3. After designing your webinar, record yourself delivering it. 
4. After recording your webinar, answer the following questions.
   1. Describe the topic, purpose, and audience for the webinar you created.
   2. Identify one element that went well and one aspect that could have been improved.  How would you improve it?
   3. Explain why the webinar style you developed was an appropriate and/or effective choice.
   4. Identify a variety of conventions and/or techniques appropriate to a webinar and explain how they will help you communicate specific aspects of their intended meaning.

Well done! You've showcased how much your skills have grown in such a short period of time.  Before continuing on in your ENG2D journey, it's time to take a moment to pause and reflect on what you've learned, and where you need to go.  To do this, you'll reflect on your growth as an English student by answering the following questions.  

• How do the short fiction texts with which we engage affect and influence us and our place in the world?
• What are your strengths as a communicator?  Find an example for reading, writing, oral and media studies from Unit 2 that showcases and celebrates this.
• Which optional sidequests did you complete?  What did you learn from them?  Which ones did you not complete?  Why was this the case?
• Which mandatory subquest best prepared you for the OSSLT?  Why?
• As you move forward into the next unit of this course, what will be your specific focus for improving your English-related skills? To answer this question, you must first review the Learning Goals and Success Criteria at the beginning of the unit to determine the area/s on which you most need to focus. Next, you will need to outline some specific steps you will take to improve the quality of your work or proficiency of your skills.

At this unit's end, you'll develop a pitch presentation to get your movie idea produced!