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!