Weekly 9th Grade Schedule for March 17th

MARCH 17TH WEEKLY SCHEDULE
FOR
9TH GRADE ENGLISH

Monday, March 17th:

1st and 5th Periods:

Greetings, scholars!
Today we are going to the library to have our reading level tested. So please meet in room #508 first and then we will make our way to the library for the computer generated test. It should take about fifteen minutes and then we’ll go back to our room for more fun stuff.

1st and 2nd Periods:

Today your final draft of your literary analysis will be due.

Your beloved and much cherished vocabulary and grammar books will be assigned to you today.

VOCABULARY FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, pages 31 - 39; exercise 21,22,23,24 and 26, 27, 28, and 29. This assignment will be due on Friday, March 21st.

Today, if we have time - and we never do - we will start ROMEO and JULIET. We’ll yell and scream and call each other insulting Shakespearean epithets, and we will learn some very interesting factoids about William Shakespeare.

5th Period:

Today we will continue reading the excerpt from Isabel Allende’s novel. When we finish we will write journal entries about our own memories. From the journals we will write an essay about an important memory we have.



Tuesday, March 18th:

1st Period:

Please bring your ENGLISH WORKSHOP today;”Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases”; pages 151 and 152; exercises 3 and 4 will be assigned. This will be due on Thursday, March 20th.

2nd Period:

Today an assignment will be given to you out of your ENGLISH WORKSHOP; “Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases”; pages 143 and 144; exercises 1 and 2. This will be due on Thursday, March 20th.

5th Period:

Please bring your ENGLISH WORKSHOP today; pages 141 - 142; exercises 1 and 2; “Prepositional Phrases”. This will be due on Thursday, March 20th.
1st and 2nd Periods:

Watch the first scene in the 1969 and the 1990’s ROMEO and JULIET films.

5th Period:

Your “Memory Essay” will be due today.

We will go over some interesting “factoids” about Shakespeare.


Wednesday, March 19th:

Warm-ups:

Write five sentences using five of your vocabulary words with either an adverb or adjective phrase.

Begin reading Act 1, Scene 1 of ROMEO and JULIET and acting out the scene.

We will also keep a reading log which is a summary of what we’ve read plus our reaction to it. We will also record examples of the figurative language we encounter in our reading.


Thursday, March 20th:

Your ENGLISH WORKSHOP grammar homework is due today.

Warm-ups:

Write five more sentences using five of your vocabulary words with either an adverb or adjective phrase.

Continue reading and acting out Act One and writing our reading logs.


Friday, March 21st:

Warm-ups:

You know the routine: write five more sentences using five of your vocabulary words with either an adverb or adjective phrase.

Your vocabulary homework is due today.

Continue swashbuckling our way through Act One in ROMEO and JULIET. And of course, don’t forget to swashbuckle our way through the reading logs.