September 16, 2013 - September 20, 2013 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Honors English

Monday, September 16th: 

Finish reading "The Most Dangerous Game"

Reading log 

Go over the vocabulary, suspense and grammar packet for "The Most Dangerous Game" 

Tuesday, September 17th:

Go over Freitag's plot line:

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement

Go through "The Most Dangerous Game" and place the events in the short story on Freitag's plot line

Wednesday, September 18th: 

Periods 1 - 4 do not meet today

Thursday, September 19th:

How to Find the Theme of a Story

Essay: 

Do you think  the author, Richard Connell,  of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game",  answers the question posed by the theme: "The world belongs to the strong, and the weak are placed in the world to be used by the strong."

Work on the essay in class. 

Friday, September 20th: 

Your rough draft will be due today. We will do peer editing.  

The final draft will be due on Monday, September 23rd.