March 5, 2012 - March 9, 2012

Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, March 5th:

THE ODYSSEY Vocabulary Handouts, Books 5 and 9 are due

Work on THE ODYSSEY essay

Rough draft:

Introductory paragraph

Body paragraph

Conclusion

Must include at least five quotations from the text.

The essay must be at least 750 words.

This will be due on Tuesday, March 6th.

Tuesday, March 6th:

Collect essay today.

Your ODYSSEY reading log is due today! (Major grade!)

CST Review:

Capitalization

For homework: HOLT HANDBOOK; page 245; Exercise B: "Correcting Capitalization Errors in a Paragraph". This will be due on Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 7th:

The Exposition Chapter

Academic Vocabulary; pages 65 in PERSPECTIVES IN MULTICULTURALISM

Ambiguity: Students break into groups of three to demonstrate ambiguity

Irony: Students break into groups of three to demonstrate the three types of irony: situational, verbal, dramatic

Read pages 66 - 67 in PERSPECTIVES IN MULTICULTURALISM

"Before You Read" and create a chart for each source

Begin reading "Homecoming" by Richard Rodriguez

Thursday, March 8th:

CST Review: Colons

For homework: HOLT HANDBOOK; pages 303 - 305; Exercise 3; "Correcting Sentences by Adding Colons"; this will be due tomorrow, Friday, March 9th.

Read "Wild as It Ever Was" by Jeff Rennicke (page 73)

Read “Wild as It Ever Was” by Jeff Rennicke (page 73)

Read “The Repatriation of Ishi, the Last Yahi Indian”; the Smithsonian (page 77)

Discuss the time line of Ishi’s life

Pair up and discuss “After You Read”; share with class (page 79)

“Homecoming”

“Wild as It Ever Was”

“The Repatriation of Isi”

Create a chart “Synthesizing Sources” (page 81)

Friday, March 9th:

Go over last night's homework.

Finish up left over work form Thursday, March 8th.