NOVEMBER 29, 2010 - DECEMBER 3, 2010

Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Honors English:

Monday, November 29th:

Go over your persuasion essays.

Go over format for persuasion essays

Thesis statement

Development

Citation

Supporting evidence

Comments

Redo essay for higher grade. Depending on how well you do, we will either begin THE ODYSSEY or work on more persuasion essays ;-(

Tuesday, November 30th:

Please bring your HOLT'S HANDBOOK (the grammar book)

Today pages 98 - 100, Exercise 1: "Identifying Independent and Subordinate Clauses" will be assigned; this will be due on Thursday, December 2nd.

Begin reading THE ODYSSEY

Wednesday, December 1st:

Read THE ODYSSEY

Watch the video

Please bring your vocabulary book to class today; Unit 2 will be assigned. Unit 2 will be due on Tuesday, December 7th.

Thursday, December 2nd:

Your grammar homework is due today: HOLT'S HANDBOOK; Exercise 1: "Identifying Independent and Subordinate Clauses"

Read The ODYSSEY

Watch the video

Friday, December 3rd:

Warm-up: Using your vocabulary words from Unit 2, write five sentences with subordinate

clauses.

Read THE ODYSSEY

Watch the video