Spring Semester Lesson Plans for 9th Grade English

February - Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	20  Finish presentations of PSAs for the Cicones, the  Lotus Eaters, The Bag of Winds, the Cyclops, Circe Review for Test over Books 1 - 4	21  Books 1 - 4 The Odyssey Test  Book 9 Vocabulary and Literary Packets	22  Read “The Land of the Dead” - (December, 2012) Discussion of Moral Dilemma  Return to the Isle of Circe	23 Read The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, (March 14, 2016)  Discussion Reading logs  Act out
26 Read “The Cattle of Helios” Reading log Discussion  Kahoots!	27  Book 9 Vocabulary and Literary Packet Reading log is due  The Odyssey Test	28 Read “The Return of the Hero”  Reading log Discussion  Pass out Book 21 packet	29 Go over the Book 21 Packet Read “Argos and the Old Beggar”  Reading log  Discussion	March 1 Do first vocabulary word in Unit 5 Write two sentences using an adverbial clause Read “The Test of the Great Bow”  Reading Log  Discussion

For warm-up: have them do vocabulary and/or grammar! 

February 19, 2018 - February 23, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Tuesday, February 20th: 
Finish PSA presentations from The Odyssey

Tomorrow, please bring your vocabulary book to class. 
We will start working on vocabulary and grammar as part of our warm-ups.

Went over how to do a script:

First, the writer describes the setting and the situation.

Odysseus and his men land on a strange island. Odysseus sends his men looking for food and water. The men find a beautiful palace with a beautiful young woman who is singing and weaving a tapestry on a loom. Around her are strange exotic animals, lions and tigers, who are very quiet and human like.

Character’s name

Polites, are you telling me that Circes has turned my men into pigs?

Presented Scenes:

Worked with the following scenes:

The Suitors: Kevin, Jose, Adolfo

Helper: Melanie
Reworked it

Circe: Milan, Melanie

“Don’t Let Fun get in the Way of Responsibility”

Reworked it

Please turn in the script form of your scene to schoology tonight! 

Wednesday, February 21st: 
Vocabulary Warm-ups: 
Vocabulary Unit 5

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Standard: Vocabulary development

Unit 5 Vocabulary

Aghast!!!!!

Part of speech: adjective – describes something!!

Etymology: late middle English (1200 – 1500’s)

Definition: Filled with amazement, fear, disgust, or terror

Synonyms: shocked, horrified, stupefied

Antonyms: delighted, overjoyed, unmoved

Original sentences:

Milan: My mother was aghast when she heard my brother say an inappropriate word.

Julia: The father was aghast when he saw what his daughter was wearing to school.

Lizbeth A.: When the magician did his disappearing trick, the speechless audience was aghast!

Julian: Everybody was aghast when the bobsledder’s pants ripped.

From a literary source:

Poem by A.E. Housman – “They put strychnine in his meat and stared aghast to watch him eat.”

Strychnine is a type of poison!

The Odyssey Scene Presentations: 
The Cyclops: 
Yessenia, Nadiya, Hilaryd

Review for test tomorrow! 

Thursday, February 22nd:  
Not here today. Sick!

Friday, February 23rd: 
The Odyssey Test: Books 1 - 9 
Vocabulary Unit 5 #1 - 10 will be due on Tuesday, February 27th!