December 5, 2005
Weekly Agenda
for 9th Grade Honors


Monday, December 5th:

Finish reading a Son Seeks a Father
Read and do reading log and time line

Read:

Book 5: “Calypso, the Sweet Nymph”
Draw Calypso’s Cave

Book 6: “The Princess Nausicaa”
Do reading log and time line

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Tuesday, December 6th:

Turn in your Prepositional Phrase handouts

Read:

Book 8: “The Song of the Minstrel”

The land of the Ciccones

Book 9: “The Lotus Eaters and the Cyclops”
Do time line and reading log
Public Service Announcements: “Do Not Eat the Lotus!”

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Wednesday, December 7th:

Book 10: “The Bag of Wind” and “The Witch Circe”
Are there lessons that Homer’s The Odyssey teach us? What lesson might the bag of wind or Circe, the witch, might teach us?


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Thursday, December 8th:

Appositive Handouts. This will be due on Tuesday, December 16th.

Book 11: “The Land of the Dead”
Book 12: “The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis”


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Friday, December 9th:

Journal: Write sentences using six of your vocabulary words from pages 24 - 33, and use an adverbial clause in two sentences, an adjective clause in two more sentences, and two more using appositives.


Do vocabulary, literary terms and comprehension handouts for The Odyssey.

On December 16th your notebook will be due!

November 21, 2005
Weekly Agenda for
9th Grade English


Monday, November 21st:

Turn in your rough draft of your literary analysis. Your final draft and your reading log will be due two days after you receive your corrected literary analysis.
Go over adjective clause handouts. This will be due on Wednesday, November 23rd.
Begin reading “The Trojan War” handouts.

Tuesday, November 22nd:

Journal: Write six sentences using six of your vocabulary words (pages 24 - 33); three sentences using adverbial clauses (although, when, since, after, etc) and three sentences using adjective clauses.
Continue reading “The Trojan War” handouts.

Wednesday, November 23rd:

Journal: Write six sentences using six of your vocabulary words (pages 24 - 33); three sentences using adverbial clauses and three sentences using adjective clauses.
Collect your homework for today, “The Adjective Clause” handout.
Assign “Adjective Clause” Sentence Combining; due Monday, November 28th.
Finish reading “The Trojan War”; watch the film “Troy”.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

THE WEEK OF
NOVEMBER 7TH
AGENDA
FOR 9TH GRADE

Monday, November 7th:

First Period:

Assign adverbial phrase handout from Sentence Combining for High School Students. This will be due on Wednesday, November 9th.

“The Cask of Amontillado” packet will be due on Monday. Go over the “Heightened Style of Edgar Allan Poe”, exercises 1 and 2; and “Revising Two Paragraphs” exercise 3.

Break into groups of three and write three short stories: each short story should illustrate one of the following types of irony: situational, verbal and dramatic. You will present your short story on Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 8th:

Present your ironic short stories today.
Go over vocabulalry homework, pages 24 - 33; exercises 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24.
Begin work on the first paragraph of your literary analysis.

Wednesday, November 9th:

Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words. Be sure to use an adverbial clause in the short story.
Your Adverbial phrase handout will be due today.
Finish presenting your ironic playlet/short story today.
Work on the second paragraph of your literary analysis.

Thursday, November 10th:

Work on the third paragraph of your literary analysis.

Friday, Novmebr 11th:

Veterans Day. We have today off to remember the valor and sacrifice of our service men and women.

OCTOBER 31ST WEEKLY AGENDA
for
9th Grade


Monday, October 31st:

Read Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Discuss unreliable narrator and the three ironies: situational, verbal and dramatic.
Work on the packet for “The Cask of Amontillado”.

Your vocabulary homework: pages 24 - 33: exercises 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, and 24, is due today. We will go over this in class tomorrow.


Tuesday, November 1st:

Assign groups. Each group of three to four will present three short skits which will illustrate situational, verbal and dramatic irony. We will begin presentations on Friday.

Your adverbial clause handout will be due today.
We will go over your vocabulary homework which was turned in on Monday.


Wednesday, November 2nd:

Please bring your English Workshop; I will assign pages 165 - 166 over adverbial clauses. This will be due on Friday, November 4th.

Break into your groups and begin writing the three ironic skits.


Thursday, November 3rd:

Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words.

Break into your groups and continue writing the three ironic skits.

Fourth period: Meet in auditorium



Friday, November 4th:

We will go over your English Workshop homework: pages 165 - 166; “Adverbial clauses.

Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words. You must use an adverbial clause in your short story.

Begin presenting your three ironic skits. The rest of the class will try to determine which kind of irony is being used in each skit.

OCTOBER 24TH
WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR
9TH GRADE


Monday, October 24th:

For 1st and 2nd period:

Read “The Gift of the Magi” in the Elements of Literature anthology.

For fourth period:

Class will be held in room #508 today because of fifth period final exam for C track. Finish writing the persuasive essay, the short constructed response and/or the multiple choice questions. The material is in one of the two blue/red bags behind the teacher’s desk in #509. Please allow Malik or Christian or Stewart to help you with passing out the material. Please be sure to collect the material at the end of the period.

Tuesday, October 25th:

Shortened Day!

We will go over an adverbial clause handout today. The homework will be due on Thursday, October 27th.

Begin working on a compare and contrast essay comparing the personalities of the Madame Loisel in “The Necklace” and the female character in “The Gift of the Magi”. We will start by using venn diagrams and t-graphs. The final draft will be due on Wednesday, October 26th.


Wednesday, October 26th:

Continue working on the compare and contrast essay. The final draft will be due at the end of the period on Wednesday.


Thursday, October 27th:

Your adverbial clause handout will be due today.

We will begin reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Please bring your Vocabulary Workshop today. The words on pages 25 - 25 will be assigned. The homework will be due on Monday, October 31st.


Friday, October 28th:

Continue reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Assign pages 165 - 166 in English Workshop; “Adverbial Clauses”; this will be due on Tuesday, November 1st.

October 17th Weekly
Schedule for
9th Grade

Monday, October 17th:

District Mandated Periodic Assessment. Reading Comprehension and multiple choice questions.

4th Period: You will present your “The Necklace - Continuing the Story” and then we will begin working on the periodic assessment.

For homework: work on “The Necklace” vocabulary, grammar and comprehension packet.

Tuesday, October 18th:

I am not going to be here today. Mr. Itkin and I will be going to Sony to pick up costumes and props. You will continue working on the periodic assessment.

Wednesday, October 19th:

Continue working on essay part of the periodic assessment. The essay will be due at the end of the period.

Thursday, October 20th:

Your “The Necklace” vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension packet will be due today. There will be a brief test over “The Necklace”.
Begin reading “The Gift of the Magi”.

Friday, October 21st:

Finish reading “The Gift of the Magi”. Compare and contrast the characters of Della and Mathilde Loisel. We will begin working on yet another essay comparing and contrasting the two characters of Della from “The Gift of the Magi” and Mathilde Loisel in “The Necklace”. This essay will be due on Tuesday, October 25th.

Next week (the week of October 24th) we will be reading Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and writing a short skit using dramatic, situational and verbal irony.

The week of October 31st, we will work on our literary analysis. Be sure that you are finished with your book by then and have your reading log completed. An additional idea might be to include in your reading log selected passages, lines, and quotations that you find interesting, compelling or that shed insights into the characters, plot, or themes of the story.

October 10th
Weekly Agenda
for
9th Grade

Monday, October 10th:

Turn in your final draft of your essay on Bill Gates’ essay “What’s Wrong with American High Schools”

Go over English Workshop; pages 160 - 161; exercise 1; “Subordinate and Main Clauses”; this will be due on Wednesday, October 12th.


Tuesday, October 11th:

Shortened day!


District Periodic Assessment. Read passages and answer questions.


Wednesday, October 12th:

Collect grammar homework from English Workshop; pages 160 - 161; exercise 1; “Subordinate and Main Clauses”.

District Periodic Assessment. Read packet and write a persuasive essay in response to the information.



Thursday, October 13th:

District Periodic Assessment. Finish work on the essay and turn in at the end of the period.

“Prepositional Handouts” for homework tonight. This will be due tomorrow, Friday, October 14th.



Friday, October 14th:

Go over “Prepositional Handouts” homework.

Read “The Necklace”.

9TH GRADE AGENDA
FOR
OCTOBER 3, 2005


Monday, October 3rd:

Chicken Soup for the Teenaged Soul; Free choice - you get to choose! Write a one half page response to the piece you have selected. Share!

Begin work on writing a persuasive essay.
The thesis statement.
The opening paragraph:
Deductive
Inductive
Anecdotal

Body paragraph:
Mini-topic statement
Claim
Evidence
Commentary
Conclusion

Counterclaim!

Concluding paragraph

Now you try it!



Tuesday, October 4th:

Six-Way Paragraph; Passage #7.

Assign from last week “Subordinate and Independent Clauses”; pages 161-162; Exercise 1; this will be due on Thursday, October 6th.

Read Grade 9 Assessment 1 Version 1: Persuasion: “What’s Wrong with American High School” by Bill Gates

Go over graphs #1, #2, #3 relating educational level with income.

Read “U.S. Teens Have Weak Practice Math Skills”.


Wednesday, October 5th:

Brief grammar review.

Read Peter Levine’s letter in response to Bill Gates’ letter. (Counter claim)

Go over format for writing persuasive essay.
Review introductory paragraph
Thesis statement
Inductive format
Deductive format
Anecdotal

Body paragraph
Mini-topic sentence
Claim
Evidence
Commentary
Concluding sentence

Go over counter claim!

Final paragraph

Read student papers from “ECR - 9th Grade Persuasion”
Evaluate the papers.


Thursday, October 6th:

Go over English Workshop; pages 161-162; exercise 1; “Subordinate and Independent Clauses.”

Begin working on your persuasive essay
You must have the rough draft finished by the end of the period.


Friday, October 7th:

Brief essay and grammar review.
Work on final draft of your persuasive essay.

SEPTEMBER 26TH
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
9TH GRADE

Monday, September 26th:

Daybook; pages 11; “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee; activity: page 13.
Go over “The Most Dangerous Game” vocabulary, grammar and literary handouts.
You will have a little bit of time to work on board game for “Most Dangerous Game”.


Tuesday, September 27th:

Shortened Day!

Six-Way Paragraph; pages 10 & 11: Passage # 5.
Vocabulary homework is due; pages 18 - 21; exercises 11, 12, 13, 14. Go over in class.

Wee small test over “The Most Dangerous Game”.
Wee bit of time given to work on board game for “Most Dangerous Game”


Wednesday, September 28th:

Wee small vocabulary test; pages 18-21
Grammar handout after the test.
Presentation of board games.


Thursday, September 29th:

Finish presentation of board games
Daybook: Critical Reading and Writing; (red book) page 25; “The Nature of Symbolic Language” by Erich Fromm
Start reading “A Man Called Horse” + reading logs
Pass out “A Man Called Horse” vocabulary, grammar and literary packets.


Friday, September 30th:

Daybook: Critical Reading and Writing; (red book) page 26; “First Frost”, poem by Andrei Voznesensky

Continue reading “A Man Called Horse”

WEEKLY SCHEDULE
OF
SEPTEMBER 19TH
FOR
9TH GRADE

Monday, September 19th:

Journal: Chicken Soup for the Soul: “Changes in Life”; pages 25, 26, 27.
Write a half page response to the story.

Briefly go over grammar handout from last week: “Comma Splices”.

For fourth period: Do Six Way Paragraph; pages 10 - 11; passage #5.

For fourth period: Finish presentations of “The Sniper”

Assign: English Workshop; pages 67 & 68; exercise 4: “Run-on Sentences”. This will be due on Wednesday, September 21.

Return rough draft of Cat’s Eye; final draft will be due on Friday, September 23rd.
Go over handout on good essay writing.

Read “The Most Dangerous Game”; reading log.

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Tuesday, September 20th:

Shortened day!

Wee small grammar handout over subject/verb agreement.

Finish reading “The Most Dangerous Game” - do reading logs.
Vocabulary and literary handouts over “Most Dangerous Game”

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Wednesday, September 21st:

Journal: Excerpt from Writer’s Day Book

Collect grammar homework: English Workshop; pages 67, 68; exercises 4; “Changes in Life”. Go over in class.

Go over plot construction of “Most Dangerous Game”

Assignment: Design a board game modeled on “Most Dangerous Game”


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Thursday, September 22nd:

Assign vocabulary from Vocabulary for the High School Teacher: pages 18 - 19.
This will be due on Tuesday, September 27th.

Start reading “A Man Called Horse” and do reading log.

Work on board game for “Most Dangerous Game”

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Friday, September 23rd:

Present board game for “Most Dangerous Game”

Continue reading “A Man Called Horse” and do reading log.

Week of September 12, 2005
9th Grade Honors


Monday, September 12th:

Journal: Write a short story using 10 of your vocabulary words.

Vocabulary is due today! Pages 4 - 14; exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Check out ENGLISH WORKSHOP; assign sentence fragments and run-ons. This will be due on Wednesday, September 14th.

Pass back rough drafts of Cat’s Eye. Rewrite rough draft into a final draft. This will be due on Friday, September 16th.

Break into groups and rewrite “The Sniper” according to the point of view of your character. You must have a neatly written version of your rewrite to give to me by Tuesday. We will begin presentations of our rewrites on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005.


Tuesday, September 13th:

Shortened day!

Grammar handouts: Run-ons and sentence fragments. Work on the grammar handout as a journal.
Break into groups and work on rewrites.


Wednesday, September 14th:

Journal: Six Way Paragraphs: 3rd Passage

Turn in your grammar homework: ENGLISH WORKSHOP; sentence fragments and run-ons.

Present your rewrites of “The Sniper”


Thursday, September 15th:

Vocabulary test over pages 4 - 14.

Begin reading “The Most Dangerous Game”.
Vocabulary and literary handouts for “The Most Dangerous Game”


Friday, September 16th:

Journal: Chicken Soup for the Teen Age Soul
Read “The Most Dangerous Game”
Your final draft of Cat’s Eye is due.

Week of September 6th
Honors English 9A

Tuesday, September 6th:

Journal: Six-Way Paragraph; Passage #2.

Finish working on excerpt from CAT’S EYE. Do preplanning work on writing a three paragraph essay on how Elaine has changed. The final draft will be due on Wednesday, September 7th.

Turn in title of your outside reading book. We will go over how to do reading logs

Assign VOCABULARY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; pages 4 through 7. Please write out the entire exercises. This will be due on Monday, September 12th.

Wednesday, September 7th:

Journal: Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words.
Turn in your “Elaine” essay on Cat’s Eye.
Begin reading “The Sniper” from your anthology book. Do reading logs.


Thursday, September 8th:

Journal: A selection from Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Continue reading “The Sniper” from the anthology.
Reading logs.

Friday, Septemeber 9th:

Journal: Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words.
Go over point of view. Break into groups and begin rewriting “The Sniper” from different points of view.

We may also go over grammar if the need arises this week.

Essay Topics
for
Ender’s Game


1. Why does Orson Scott Card use a young boy as the protagonist in a book about a great war between humanity and aliens?

2. How are good and evil addressed in Ender’s Game?

3. What is Card saying about manipulation in Ender’s Game?

4. Compare the way that Ender treats Bean to the way Graff treats Ender. What does this say about the role of leadership or authority?

5. Ender kills two children while only trying to defend himself. What is Card saying about violence?

6. The buggers can communicate instantaneously and they fought human beings because they thought humans were not sentient beings. Is this a statement about war or about communication?

7. The I.F. has control over Ender because they authorized his birth. Does Card seem to imply that governments be allowed to have such control over individuals?

8. Are the characters in Ender’s Game realistic? What features do they share with real people? What features are unique to the book? What does this say about the way people are? What does it say about the way they should be?



Two pages typed or neatly written in blue or black ink with rough draft. This will be due on the day of the final.

9TH GRADE NOTEBOOK
FOR
THE SPRING SEMESTER


1. Front page with name, period and date

2. Romeo and Juliet
a. Reading log
b. Class notes
c. Handouts
1. Words from Shakespeare
2. Phrases from Shakespeare
3. Shakespears Insults
4. Oxymorons
5. Queen Mab
d. Acts 1 - 5 Vocabulary, grammar and comprehension packets
e. Romeo and Juliet tests Acts 1 - 5
f. Illustrations of figurative language
f. Romeo and Juliet rewrite script: personal copy

3. Ender’s Game
a. Reading log
b. Class notes:
1. Demosthenes
2. Locke

4. Vocabulary
a. homework, pages 31 - 38
b. test, pages 35 - 37
c. homework, pages 61 - 68
d. test, pages 61 - 68
e. homework, pages 90 - 96
f. test, pages 90 - 96

5. Grammar

a. Correlative conjuctions
b. Sentence base
c. Indirect/Direct objects
d. Comma splice
e. pages 163 - 164; Adjective clause
f. pages 165 - 166; Adverbial clause
g. Adjective clause handouts
h. Adverbial clause handouts

6. Essays

a. Foreshadowing essay on Romeo and Juliet + rough draft
b. District Assessment Essay: Literary Analysis
c. District Assessment Essay: Expository Writing

June 20th Weekly Agenda
for 9th Grade

Monday, June 20th:

Read and discuss Ender’s Game. Don’t forget your captain’s log!
Write an original short story using ten of your vocabulary words (pages 90 - 96: exercises 1 - 8.) Please turn in your grammar book - yeah!

Tuesday, June 21st:

Your vocabulary is due today. Finish up Ender’s Game with a discussion. A final essay will be assigned and it will be due on the day of the final, along with your captain’s log for the book. Then we will break into groups and begin working on creating a game version of the book.

Wednesday, June 22nd:

Your grammar handout is due today - “Adverbial Clause, Practice One”. We will quickly go over it and then back to the game boards. You will be given a take home vocabulary test. This will be due tomorrow, Thursday, June 23rd.

Thursday, June 23rd:

Your take home vocabulary test is due today. Go over in class. Please turn in your vocabulary book. Work on your game!


Friday, June 24th:

Your notebooks are due today! Continue working on your games!

June 13th Weekly Schedule
for 9th Grade Honors



Monday, June 13th:

We are now reading Ender’s Game. The assignment over the weekend is to read up to Chapter 6, page 50. Be sure to keep up with your reading log. Write down the names, descriptions of characters as they are introduced. Also write down the events of the story (the plot points) and any interesting thing that catches your attention: a really bizarre character, a line, a word, figurative language that you encounter in the story. And finally, jot down your response to the events and the characters in the story.

Read Ender’s Games; chapter 6. For homework read up to chapter 8; “Rat”; page 97.

Grammar handouts! Yup, more grammar. Adjective Clauses; exercise 1; numbers 1 - 8. Additional assignment: Write three original sentences using adjective clauses. This will be due on Wednesday, June 15th.


Tuesday, June 14th:

Shortened day!

Your Romeo and Juliet reading log will be due today. See above if you are unclear about what should be in your reading log. You might want to include the notes (the stuff I scribbled on the board) and the things we discussed in class in your reading log.

Today we are going to discuss last night’s reading (“Salamander”, chapter 7) and then read and discuss chapter 8, (”Rat”). For homework read chapter 9, “Locke and Demosthenes”. And of course, don’t forget your “captain’s log”.


Wednesday, June 15th:

Your adjective clause homework is due today.

You will be assigned another grammar handout but this one will be on “adverbial
clauses”. The additional assignment will be to write three sentences using adverbial clauses. This assignment will be due on Friday, June 17th.

We are going to climb into the spinning shuttle and strap ourselves in for another thrilling read of Ender’s Game. We will discuss last night’s reading of chapter 9, and then press on to chapter 10, “Dragon” for tonight’s reading.


Thursday, June 16th:

Bring your vocabulary book today. We will do one last chapter in the book and then kiss it good bye. The pages will be from 92 to 107, and this will be due on Tuesday, June 21st. I’m not going to test you on it so the homework will count double.

We will discuss last night’s reading of “Dragon” and then press on and read chapter 11, “Veni Vidi Vici” for tonight.


Friday, June 17th:

Your adverbial clause handout will be due. I will give you yet another handout on “Sentence Structure”; the additional assignment will be to write two sentences each; two simple sentences, two complex sentences, two compound sentences and two complex-compound sentences. This will be due on Wednesday, June 22nd.

We are going to discuss last night’s reading of chapter 11 and then press on to chapter 12, “Bonzo”.

For homework over the weekend, we will finish chapter 12 and then read chapters 13, “”Valentine”, and chapter 14, “Ender’s Teacher”. And of course, do your “captain’s log.”

9th Grade Honors
Week of June 6th


Monday, June 6th:

Work on the comprehension and vocabulary packet for Act 5. Wee small test on Tuesday over Act 5.

Break into five groups; each group will select one of the five acts and rewrite in modern day English. The groups will perform on Thursday.


Tuesday, June 7th:

Wee small test over Act 5.
Break into groups and work on rewrites.


Wednesday, June 8th:

Pass out To Kill a Mockingbird; assign chapters 1, 2 and 3 to be read at home. Do not forget reading logs!

Break into groups and continue working on rewrites.
Assign grammar, pages 163 and 164: “Adjective Clauses”; exercise 2 and 3. Due Friday.


Thursday, June 9th:

Begin presentation of scenes. Each scene must be at least 5 to 10 minutes in length and each group must turn in a script for their scene.


Friday, June 10th:

Finish presentation of scenes. Turn in your scripts and your reading log for Romeo and Juliet.
Grammar is due today: “Adjective Clauses”.
Assign “Adverbial clauses”; pages 165 and 166; exercise 4 and 5; due Tuesday, June 14th.
Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.

May 22nd Weekly Agenda for
9th Grade Honors

Monday, May 22nd:

Finish reading Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet
Reading logs


Tuesday, May 23rd:

Test over Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet

Go over Act 4 Romeo and Juliet vocabulary, comprehension and imagery packet.

LAST DAY OF TESTING! SCIENCE!


Wednesday, May 24th:

Continue going over Romeo and Juliet Act 4 packet.


Thursday, May 25th:

Act 4 test over Romeo and Juliet


Friday, May 26th:

Read Act 5 of Romeo and Juliet
Pass out Act 5 packet.

May 16th Weekly Schedule for 9th Grade Honors

May 16th Weekly Schedule
for 9th Grade Honors


Monday, May 16th:

Finish reading Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet; work on Act 3 grammar packet.


Tuesday, May 17th:

First day of testing!

First period meets every day (7:40 - 8:37): Finish reading and working on Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet.

Test Homeroom: 8:43 - 8:59

8:50 - 10:02: 63 minutes
Nutrition
10:25 - 12:05

Go to period 4
Lunch
Period 5
Period 6

Wednesday, May 18th:

1st Period: (7:40 - 8:37)
Test over Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet

Test Homeroom: (8:43 - 8:59)
Testing: Part One: CST ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: 8:59 - 10:30
Nutrition
Testing: Part Two: CST ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: 10:53 - 12:40

Lunch
Period 2
Period 3



Thursday, May 19th:

2nd day of tesing!

Read Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet

Begin work on Act 4 packet of Romeo and Juliet

Test Homeroom: 8:43 - 8:59
Testing: Math: 8:59 - 10:30
Nutrition
Testing: 10:53 - 12:40

Lunch
Period 2
Period 3


Friday, May 20th:

Read Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet

Work on packet for Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet

Regular schedule

May 9th Weekly Agenda
for 9th Grade Honors


Monday, May 9th:

Sorry to do this to you guys, but we have to do a district periodic assessment again over literary analysis.
Go over test prep for Cat-6.

Brief grammar review and the finer aspects of essay writing! Go over homework; “Indirect and Direct Objects”; pages 134 and 135.


Tuesday, May 10th:

Shortened day!

Because you guys WHINED so much, our foreshadowing essay will be due today.
Go over test prep for Cat-6.
Continue working on the district’s periodic assessment.



Wednesday, May 11th:

Grammar review: nominative, objective, possessive case;
semi-colons and anything else I can think of. Please bring your grammar book.
Continue working on the district’s periodic assessment.


Thursday, May 12th:

We must be finished with the district’s periodic assessment by today! Please don’t be absent.



Friday, May 13th:

Get back to reading Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet!
Go over Act 3 packet for Romeo and Juliet

May 1st Weekly Schedule
for 9th Grade Honors English


Monday, May 2nd:


Do reading comprehension test prep for Cat-6 Test!
Quickly go over grammar; pages 135 and 136; “Direct and Indirect Object” which will be due on Wednesday, May 4th.
Go over “Foreshadowing Essay” in Romeo and Juliet
Begin reading Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet¨


Tuesday, May 3rd:

Continue reading Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet.
Act out Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet! Don’t forget to bring your swords!
Go over “Foreshadowing Essay” format.


Wednesday, May 4th:

Spend time writing essay in class.
Go over Act 3 packet in preparation for Act 3 test.
Collect grammar homework; pages 135 and 136;”Direct and Indirect Objects”.


Thursday, May 5th:
Minimum Day today! Open House from 6 to 8 tonight.

If we have finished reading Act 3, then we will have a test over it.
“Foreshadowing Essay” will be due today.


Friday, May 6th:

Hopefully we will be able to move onto Act 4 by today. But if not, we will do clean up and try to finish Act 3 and the test over Act 3 by today.

April 25th Weekly Schedule
for 9th Grade Honors English


Monday, April 25th:

Quickly do a reading comprehension test prep for Cat-6 test!

Quickly go over grammar, “Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective”; pages 133-134.

Read Act 2, Scenes 3,4 and 5. Don’t forget reading logs!


Tuesday, April 26th:

Quickly do a reading comprehension test prep for Cat-6 test!

Go over vocabulary, comprehension and figurative language packet for Act 2 in Romeo and Juliet.



Wednesday, April 27th:

Romeo and Juliet Act 2 test. Begin work on five paragraph essay on conflict in Romeo and Juliet.

Begin reading Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet. Don’t forget reading logs!

Take-home test over vocabulary pages 61 - 68 in Vocabulary for the High School Student. Will be due on Thursday, April 28th.




Thursday, April 28th:

Vocabulary take-home test (pages 61 - 68) due today.

Continue working on five paragraph essay on conflict in Romeo and Juliet.

Act out Act 3, Scene 1. Continue reading Act 3; don’t forget your swords and your reading logs.


Friday, April 29th:

English Workshop; pages 135 and 136; “Direct and Indirect Objects”; exercises 14 and 15. This will be due on Wednesday, May 4th.

Your first draft of the conflict essay will be due today.

Continue reading and acting out Act 3 in Romeo and Juliet. We will begin working on Act 3 vocabulary, comprehension and grammar packet.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR APRIL 18TH
9TH GRADE HONORS



Monday:
1. Break into groups.
2. Direct scenes in Act 1, Scene 5
3. Perform scenes before class.
4. Review for ROMEO and JULIET test:
a. Vocabulary
b. Comprehension
c. Iambic Pentameter
5. Grammar homework; subordinate clauses.

Tuesday:

1. Act One Test on ROMEO and JULIET.
2. Go over test in class.
3. Go over three to five paragraph essay on conflict in play.
4. Vocabulary; pages 61 - 68.


Wednesday:

1. Begin reading Act Two in ROMEO and JULIET.
2. Reading logs and analysis of figurative language.
3. Act out the “balcony scene.”
4. Go over three to five paragraph essay format on conflict.
5. Bring English Workshop book, pages 131-132, exercises 10 & 11.
Due Thursday.

Thursday:

1. Go over homework from English Workshop book, pages 131 - 132.
2. Assign pages 133 - 134, exercises 12 - 13 in English Workshop.
Due Friday, April 22nd.
3. Continue reading Act Two in ROMEO and JULIET
4. Reading logs and analysis of figurative language.
5. Continue working on three to five paragraph essay on conflict.

Friday:

1. Go over homework from English Workshop book, pages 133 - 134,
exercises 12 - 13.
2. Continue reading ROMEO and JULIET
3. ROMEO and JULIET Act 2 vocabulary and literary devices packet.
4. Go over ROMEO and JULIET conflict essay. Second Draft will be due on Monday, April 25th.

April 11, 2005 - April 15, 2005 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Honors English;

APRIL 11, 2005
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
9TH GRADE HONORS ENGLISH


Monday, April 11th:

Read ROMEO AND JULIET! We will work on some handouts for Act 1 over vocabulary and poetry.

We will continue working on figurative language.

We will also work on Queen Mab.

The Queen Mab Assignment: Illustrate four examples from Mercutio’s monologue
about Queen Mab (example: illustrate Queen Mab galloping over courtiers’ knees, galloping over young maidens’ lips, galloping over a parson with a tithe pig’s tail and galloping over a sailor). Under each illustration write the line from the monologue that describes it. This assignment will be due on Friday, April 15th.


Tuesday, April 12th:

Shortened day and earthquake drilll!

Continue working on Romeo and Juliet.


Wednesday, April 13th:

Read Act 1, Scene 5; “The Banquet Scene” Make Masks!

Bring your vocabulary book; assign pages 61 - 68; this will be due on Tuesday, April 19th.

Bring your grammar book; assign pages on subordinate clauses; this will be due on Monday, April 18th.


Thursday, April 14th:

Act out Act 1, Scene 5.


Friday, April 15th:

Wee small test on ROMEO AND JULIET; Act 1: comprehension, vocabulary, etc.
Continue reading. ROMEO AND JULIET, proceed to Act 2.

April 4, 2014 - April 8, 2014 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Honors English

9th Grade Schedule
for the Week
of April 4th


Good morning, scholars! Hope you had a great weekend.

Monday, April 4th:

Hmmm, before we get down to fun with Shakespeare, we need to review the multiple choice questions we took last week.

Fun assignment on Shakespeare Phrases and Words!

Then, we will do a fun game throwing “William Shakesbeare” around while throwing out lines!

We will then read Act 1, Scene 1 of ROMEO AND JULIET. If we have time, we will watch the 1969 version of the play and compare how we did on the first scene with how they did on the first scene.


Tuesday, April 5th:

Shortened day!

Briefly go over the short answer responses from last week.

Go over and collect the vocabulary mini-test. Pass out a handout on “The Sentence Base”; briefly go over it. This will be due on Thursday, April 7th.

Continue reading, acting out, and running around with swords: ROMEO AND JULIET, Act 1, Scene 1 and possible 2. Ladies and Gentlemen, start your reading logs!


Wednesday, April 6th:

Pass out “Metaphor, Simile, and Personification” handout for ROMEO AND JULIET.

Continue reading, and running around with swords for ROMEO AND JULIET. Don’t forget your reading log.


Thursday, April 7th:

Briefly go over Tuesday’s homework, “The Sentence Base”.

Continue reading, and running around with swords for ROMEO AND JULIET.
Don’t forget your reading log.


Friday, April 8th:

Assign a handout on “Complements” from WARRINERS’ GRAMMAR, 4th Course, which we will go over. This will be due on Tuesday, April 12th.

Continue reading and running around with swords for ROMEO AND JULIET. Don’t forget your reading logs!

March 28th Schedule for 9th Grade Honors

9th GRADE SCHEDULE
FOR THE WEEK OF
MARCH 28TH


Good morning, scholars! Hope you had a nice, fun-filled and restful weekend. Things are going to be in flux a bit this week because much will depend on what we accomplish on Monday and Tuesday.

Monday, March 28th:

We will finish the “Pacing Plan Expository Composition Test” either today or Tuesday. My guess is that we will finish on Tuesday.

For homework:

The beloved grammar! Handout from Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition; Sentence Fragments; pages 37 & 38; exercise 9. This will be due on Wednesday, March 30th.


Tuesday, March 29th:

Finish the Expository Composition test.

Pass back your expository compositions. Remember last semester when we entered our essays into the Vantage Program? Well, we’re going to do that again this semester as soon as a time is arranged for us to go into the lab. So hang onto your essay, okay?

Review pages 37 - 38 in Vocabulary for the High School Students in preparation for a small take-home mini-test over the words on pages 37 - 38 on Thursday, March 31st. The test must be brought back on Friday, April 1st.


Wednesday, March 30th:

Go over the homework for today, the “Sentence Fragment” handout; pages 37 - 38; exercise 9.

Begin Shakespeare - finally! Today we are going to break up into teams and hurl Shakespearean insults at each other! Sounds like fun, huh? Then, we are going to find out just who Mr. Shakespeare was and the amazing gift he gave to the English language.


Thursday, March 31st:

Take home test on the vocabulary words, pages 37 - 38;

Watch the opening scene in both film versions of the story, Romeo and Juliet.
A fun little exercise using the lines from the opening scene. Read and act out the first scene in Romeo and Juliet.

Friday, April 1st:

Collect last night's homework, the mini, take-home vocabulary test over pages 37 - 38.

Another grammar homework assignment due Tuesday, April 5th; “Complements”, handout of pages 39 and 40 in Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition. (This isn't from your textbook. It's from another book and I will give you the handout from the book.)

Worksheet on metaphors, similes, personifications and imagery in Act 1 in Romeo and Juliet.

Continue reading and acting out Romeo and Juliet.

Week of March 21st, the first day of Spring!

March 21st Schedule
for
9th Grade English


Good morning, scholars. Hope you had a nice, restful weekend and you’re ready to get back to work!

Monday, March 21st:

Today is the first day of expository writing. You will be given some materials to read, answer and then write an essay on. This will occupy us for approximately the next three days.

For homework: Run-on sentences and fragments handouts. We will briefly go over the work. It will be due on Wednesday, March 23rd.



Tuesday, March 22nd:

See above. We will be working on expository writing.


Wednesday, March 23rd:

See above. We will be working on expository writing.
Your grammar homework will be due on run-on sentences and fragments.



Thursday, March 24th:

If all goes according to plan, and it never does - we will begin William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. We will do a fun hour of breaking into “gangs” and screaming Shakespearean insults at each other. We will also find out really interesting factoids about Shakespeare and the impact he had on the English language. We may, if we have time, watch the opening scene of the two R & J films.



Friday, March 25th:

We will begin actually reading and acting out the roles in Romeo and Juliet - for after all, it is a play and plays are meant to be acted. Right?

Good Morning Scholars!

Monday, March 14th:

We are going to be working on essays this week in preparation for the Cat-6 testing that's coming up soon!
Read Langston Hughes' "Harlem" and Alice Walker's "Women"

Read essay on school uniforms.
Mini-debate.
Analyze the essay.

Tuesday, March 15th:

Vocabulary is due! VOCABULARY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; pages 31 - 38; exercises 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29.
Go over homework in class.
Journal: Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words.

Look at essay structure terms
Outline


Wednesday, March 16th:

Vocabulary journal: Write a short story using ten of your vocabulary words.

Break into groups and analyze grabber, topics and clinchers! for your essays!

Make presentations to class.


Thursday, March 17th:

Analyze introductory, body and concluding paragraphs
Break into groups and make presentations to class.


Friday, March 18th:

Vocabulary jeopardy!
Vocabulary test over pages 31 - 38.

Get ready to write an essay over some fascinating and compelling topic!
We will discuss some possible topics for our essays.