OCTOBER 30TH
WEEKLY AGENDA
FOR 9TH GRADE

Monday, October 30th:

Pass out the vocabulary packet of “The Cask of Amontillado” and go over verbal, dramatic and situational irony.

Please bring your vocabulary book, VOCABULARY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; pages 30-33; exercises 21 - 24, will be assigned. This will be due on Tuesday, October 31st.


Tuesday, October 31st (Happy Halloween!):

Today in celebration of Halloween, we will read some masterpieces of the great Gothic writer, Edgar Allan Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Raven”.

We will begin working on a group project in which you will break into groups of three or four and write three scenes, one scene showing dramatic irony, one scene showing situational irony and the third scene showing verbal irony. We will present these on Thursday, November 2nd.

Today, pages 35 - 39; exercises 26 - 29 in your VOCABULARY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS will be assigned today. This will be due on Thursday, November 2nd.


Wednesday, November 1st:

All Saints’ Day or The Day of the Dead:


Journal Entry: Does your family celebrate The Day of the Dead? If your family does, how do they celebrate it? How does your culture remember loved ones who have passed?

For first period:

Please bring your ENGLISH WORKSHOP. Today, adverbial clauses will be assigned; pages 165 - 166; exercises 4 - 5. This will be due on Monday, November 6th.

For second and third period:

Please bring your ENGLISH WORKSHOP. Today, adverbial clauses will be assigned;pages 173 - 174; exercises 3 and 4. This will be due on Monday, November 6th.

Continue working on our ironic skits.


Thursday, November 2nd:

Journal: Choose ten of our vocabulary words and write a short story using them.

Present our ironic skits today complete with your typed scripts.

Your vocabulary homework is due today!


Friday, November 3rd:

Journal: Chose ten more of our vocabulary words and write a short story using them.

Finish presenting your skits today.

Today we will read the short story “The Necklace”. I think you will like this one.

Hey guys!

We didn't have an agenda last week because I went home to Texas for the weekend to celebrate my mom's birthday. We didn't get very far the week of October 9th through the 13th so we tried to finish the work we were suppose to have finished by the 16th - but didn't. So for the parents, if you want to know what we did last week (October 17th - October 20th) we did what we were suppose to be doing on October 11th - October 16th, which was preparation for the District Periodic Assessment. Last week we read articles and essays on whether the U.S. should sign the Ottawa Land Mine Ban Treaty. After carefully analyzing the material, the students were to write a persuasive essay stating and supporting their position.

This week we will be doing the real District Periodic Assessment on whether adolescent access to violent video games should be restricted. The students will be reading articles and essays (some material supporting restriction, others not) and writing their own persuasive essay on the subject. This will be graded and the results will be recorded downtown.

Last week there were problems with chronic tardiness. The class starts at 7:40 and the students must know that if they arrive by school bus then they CANNOT LEAVE CAMPUS to buy food at the area fast food restaurants. Students CANNOT saunter into class late carrying bags of steaming french fries or hamburgers or coffee. This is becoming a serious problem. Please take care of breakfast before you get on the bus.

That said have a great week and I will see you tomorrow.

October 23rd Weekly Schedule
for 9th Grade English


Monday, October 23rd:

Work on the District Assessment Test and Persuasive Essay. This is a two to three day assessment designed by the district to test students’ reading, writing and analytical skills. We will read essays and articles on the subject of video games and violence in children. You will then answer some multiple choice questions over the subject matter and then write a “short constructed response” and a persuasive essay stating your opinion - just like we did last week on the landmine ban treaty.


Tuesday, October 24th:

The shortened day has been cancelled. Continue working on the District Assessment Test and Persuasive Essay.

Wednesday, October 25th:

Final day to work on the District Assessment Test and Persuasive Essay.


Thursday, October 26th:

Today we need a break from all this work so we will read Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of the Amontillado”.



Friday, October 27th:

We will finish reading “The Cask of the Amontillado.”