April 20th - April 24th Weekly Agenda
for 9th Grade Honors
Expected Schoolwide Learning Results
Effective Communicators
Critical Thinkers

Monday, April 20th:
The final rewrite of the literary analysis of “War Party” and “Incident on Sycamore Street” is due today. You must also include the original essay (the one you wrote in the booklet) along with your rewrite.
Before you turn in the rewrite, please highlight in yellow the topic sentence in your paragraphs, then highlight in orange the background information in your body paragraphs, highlight in green the introduction to your quotation; highlight in pink your quotation and then highlight in “skin” your comment on the quotation.
Break into pairs and then “peer edit” each other’s papers. With pencil please check for correct capitalization and complete sentences. Then turn in your rewrites and the booklet.
We will begin reading and acting out ROMEO and JULIET.
Please be sure to keep up with your Cornell notes:
Please be sure to write down the act and the scene number and the summary on the left, and your response and prediction on the right. On the bottom please write vocabulary words on the bottom.

Tuesday, April 21st:
Shortened day!
Warm-up: Using your vocabulary words from pages 61- 68 from VOCABULARY for the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT please write five sentences: two with adjective clauses (with relative pronouns: who, which and that) and three with adverbial clauses (beginning with subordinate conjunctions: since, after, even though, etc.)
Continue reading and acting out ROMEO and JULIET.
Please be sure to keep current on your Cornell notes.

Wednesday, April 22nd:
Warm-up: Using your vocabulary words from pages 61- 68 from VOCABULARY for the HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT please write five sentences: two with adjective clauses (with relative pronouns: who, which and that) and three with adverbial clauses (beginning with subordinate conjunctions: since, after, even though, etc.)
Continue reading and acting out ROMEO and JULIET. We will find metaphors and similes and personifications that are sprinkled throughout the play, and then draw pictures illustrating the figurative language.

Thursday, April 23rd:
Same as Wednesday.

Friday, April 24th:
Today we will act out the scenes that we have read this week.