Bruce Thomson's Blog

Essay Topics

2009-07-13T20:22:00.000-07:00

Hello
Sorry that this post is a little late, but here it is.
You have a choice of three essay topics, which are:
1. There are many important jobs such as doctor, judge or professor. Which job do you think is most important?
2. The most important thing for a good life is ________________.
or
3. What invention do you think has most improved the quality of your life? (Don't choose antibiotics)

Choose one of these topics and brainstorm your ideas about it. Then try to make a thesis statement and a plan for an essay on that statement. I would like you to e-mail me your thesis statement and plan by 2:30pm. Friday. My e-mail address is
BThomson@tru.ca
Thank you

Monday July 6th

2009-07-03T10:10:00.001-07:00

Please bring a printed copy of your Riverside Park Canada Day paragraph to class Monday.
I hope you enjoyed Canada Day and am looking forward to reading your paragraphs.

Assignment for Wednesday June 3

2009-06-03T10:05:00.000-07:00

Your homework for today is to write a paprgraph on:

What is an important personal quality for living in a foreign country?

Consider the difficulties you have had living here and think about what aspects of your personality have helped you or made things more difficult.

Please post this paragraph on your blog site.
This assignment is due by noon Friday.

2009-05-31T20:00:00.000-07:00

A test for revision.

Wednesday May 27th

2009-05-27T10:10:00.000-07:00

Hello
Today I want you to be teacher and editor of your classmates postings. I will ask you to join with one classmate and read their posting on favorite food.

I want you to look for:

the topic sentence
the controlling idea
a conclusion
staying "on topic"

please comment on each of these things to your partner.

Gook luck.

PS. Patricia will start to teach you today also.

Monday May 25th

2009-05-25T00:53:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,
I am sorry I missed your class last week and also sorry that I was so slow in writing your comments. They are on your posting now.
I did not comment on everything you all wrote, but focused on what I thought were the most important changes you needed to make. I hope my comments help you.
Bruce.

Hiking in Cathedral park

2009-05-06T15:04:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of me hiking in Cathedral Park in southern BC a few summers ago.

Blogger sign in

2009-05-06T11:53:00.001-07:00

wow!
Thank you for all of your help signing the class into blogger. You have been a great help. Now we can all start to use Blogger to write for this course. I think all of us can learn many things from each other. This will be great.
Bruce.

2009-05-06T11:20:00.001-07:00

Welcome to ESAL 038

2009-05-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

Hello
This is a blog site that you and I will be using this semester to post writing on. I am also learning about this site, so we will be learning how to use it together. I hope it is a good experience for all of us. Have fun writing and let me know if you have any problems.

2009-03-02T11:08:00.000-08:00