Study Guides
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Poetry Packet
You received a poetry packet in class today, Monday Dec 6, 2010.
Download the packet here: Poetry Packet
Monday's HW: Do assignments I and II [Dulce et Decorum and Sonnet XVIII]
Tuesday's HW: Assignments III, IV, and V [Dream Deferred/Dreams; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; "The War Against the Trees"] ALSO if you want to bring in a picture/art instead of using mine tomorrow, please do.
Wednesday's HW: VI and VII [ Jabberwocky and Casey at the Bat]
Free-choice reading assessment has been moved to MONDAY Dec 13.
Download the packet here: Poetry Packet
Monday's HW: Do assignments I and II [Dulce et Decorum and Sonnet XVIII]
Tuesday's HW: Assignments III, IV, and V [Dream Deferred/Dreams; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; "The War Against the Trees"] ALSO if you want to bring in a picture/art instead of using mine tomorrow, please do.
Wednesday's HW: VI and VII [ Jabberwocky and Casey at the Bat]
Free-choice reading assessment has been moved to MONDAY Dec 13.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Week of 11/29-12/3
Monday 11/29
Discuss MLA format from Round Robin sessions [before break]
HW: Food log if not already done [we cant get in to lab until Friday]
FREE READING BOOK---> you MUST have this by now as we will be doing an assessment on your book 12/9. That's ten days folks.
Tuesday 11/30
Checkpoint testing for 9th lit.
Wednesday 12/1
Intro to Poetry- Bring free reading book as well. And bring your textbook!!!!!!!
-Poetry Terms to Own [be prepared for a quiz on these Thursday]
-Ballad of Birmingham and The Lake Isle of Innisfree [see me for copies of these handouts]
Thursday 12/2
Poetry - Bring free reading book as well.
Poetry Terms Quiz
Discuss BoB and TLIoI [yesterday's poems]
Dulce et Decorum Est
Sonnet XVIII
Friday 12/3
Writing lab 307. Writing on expository paper. Info to come on requirements.
-Bring food log.
-Bring a flash drive or the ability to email your work to yourself.
Discuss MLA format from Round Robin sessions [before break]
HW: Food log if not already done [we cant get in to lab until Friday]
FREE READING BOOK---> you MUST have this by now as we will be doing an assessment on your book 12/9. That's ten days folks.
Tuesday 11/30
Checkpoint testing for 9th lit.
Wednesday 12/1
Intro to Poetry- Bring free reading book as well. And bring your textbook!!!!!!!
-Poetry Terms to Own [be prepared for a quiz on these Thursday]
-Ballad of Birmingham and The Lake Isle of Innisfree [see me for copies of these handouts]
Thursday 12/2
Poetry - Bring free reading book as well.
Poetry Terms Quiz
Discuss BoB and TLIoI [yesterday's poems]
Dulce et Decorum Est
Sonnet XVIII
Friday 12/3
Writing lab 307. Writing on expository paper. Info to come on requirements.
-Bring food log.
-Bring a flash drive or the ability to email your work to yourself.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
The rest of November
Please see the link below for the November calendar for ninth lit. It is a pretty good outline of what we will be doing for the rest of this month. Keep checking the blog though as not all information is on the calendar as far as daily assignments, homework, etc!
Ninth Lit November 2010 calendar
11/11
Make sure to turn in your "Dream" speech. It is late after today but better late than zero! Also your nonfiction open book/ open note assessment is due tomorrow.
11/12
Supersize Me Mini Project
Sample food and activity log sheet
Food measuring hints and other handy eating tips
Visual guide to estimating food portions
online food and activity log at Livestrong
Cobb County schools nutrition page scroll down to high school lunch and find the links to nutrition info for both entrees and sides
Ninth Lit November 2010 calendar
11/11
Make sure to turn in your "Dream" speech. It is late after today but better late than zero! Also your nonfiction open book/ open note assessment is due tomorrow.
11/12
Supersize Me Mini Project
Sample food and activity log sheet
Food measuring hints and other handy eating tips
Visual guide to estimating food portions
online food and activity log at Livestrong
Cobb County schools nutrition page scroll down to high school lunch and find the links to nutrition info for both entrees and sides
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
10/25-29
Tuesday 10/26
-Discussing Anthem questions
-Vocab 6 intro
HW: read through chapter 2 in Anthem; CTS in unit 6 vocab
Wednesday 10/27
-Prepositional Phrases [yes you will be quizzed on this]
Download worksheet here
HW: see monday's assignment
Thursday 10/28
-Anthem chapter 2 discussion
-preposition practice: Zombie Attack! Download here
-Vocab CTS check/Syn and Antonym
Friday 10/29
Spooky Englishy Thingy!!!!!!!!
*A frightfully good time where we will get into the spirit of things and summon up ghosts of literature past*
HW: be good and don't monopolize the neighborhood. you can just go buy a bag of candy ;-)
-Discussing Anthem questions
-Vocab 6 intro
HW: read through chapter 2 in Anthem; CTS in unit 6 vocab
Wednesday 10/27
-Prepositional Phrases [yes you will be quizzed on this]
Download worksheet here
HW: see monday's assignment
Thursday 10/28
-Anthem chapter 2 discussion
-preposition practice: Zombie Attack! Download here
-Vocab CTS check/Syn and Antonym
Friday 10/29
Spooky Englishy Thingy!!!!!!!!
*A frightfully good time where we will get into the spirit of things and summon up ghosts of literature past*
HW: be good and don't monopolize the neighborhood. you can just go buy a bag of candy ;-)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Anthem Materials
I am putting all the matierials for the Anthem unit in one post so that you do not have to hunt them down all over the place.
Philosophical Concepts in Anthem
Discussion Question Packet/Study Guide
Philosophical Concepts in Anthem
Discussion Question Packet/Study Guide
Monday, October 18, 2010
Week of 10/18-10/22
Greetings Guys!
Monday 10/18
How do we recognize a personal essay?
-Voc 5 syn/ant
-"Storm Country" [download here from previous week's entry] and discussion questions [download from previous week's entry]
HW: Voc 5 CTRW
-get a copy of Anthem by Ayn Rand- we will begin reading assignments on Wednesday.
Tuesday 10/19
Review EQ: What are the characteristics of nonfiction?
-Nonfiction open note quiz
-Vocabulary unit 5 exercises for a grade
HW: get a copy of Night by Ayn Rand. Remember for those that have financial difficulties, I DO have some copies.
Wednesday 10/20
EQ:What are the characteristics of dystopian fiction?
-Voc 5 review for quiz tomorrow
-Anthem intro [see materials post above this]
HW: begin reading chapter 1-check blog for further instructions and materials-be prepared to discuss Monday.
Monday 10/18
How do we recognize a personal essay?
-Voc 5 syn/ant
-"Storm Country" [download here from previous week's entry] and discussion questions [download from previous week's entry]
HW: Voc 5 CTRW
-get a copy of Anthem by Ayn Rand- we will begin reading assignments on Wednesday.
Tuesday 10/19
Review EQ: What are the characteristics of nonfiction?
-Nonfiction open note quiz
-Vocabulary unit 5 exercises for a grade
HW: get a copy of Night by Ayn Rand. Remember for those that have financial difficulties, I DO have some copies.
Wednesday 10/20
EQ:What are the characteristics of dystopian fiction?
-Voc 5 review for quiz tomorrow
-Anthem intro [see materials post above this]
HW: begin reading chapter 1-check blog for further instructions and materials-be prepared to discuss Monday.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
10/11-10/15 [a bit late, let's blame the PSAT!]
What we did:
10/11- Sub day! You watched the Elie Wiesel/Oprah video from Auschwitz
10/12: We reviewed Night for the test on Thursday
10/13: I didn't even get to see 2nd due to PSAT testing but the rest of us went over the words from Unit 5 vocab and did CTS for that unit
10/14: Today! Night test and catch up on vocab 5.
10/15: We will review our performance on the Night test and we will preview for a nonfiction piece on tornadoes by participating in a Listening/Speaking/Viewing activity. For those of you who won't be here for the band trip, the link to the video is: http://www.hulu.com/watch/14279/atmospheric-pressure-roger-hills-ultimate-tornadoes
For my band kids: download the tornado piece to read for monday and the questions here:
Storm Country Page 1
Storm Country Page 2
Storm Country Page 3
Storm Country Page 4
Storm Country Questions
10/11- Sub day! You watched the Elie Wiesel/Oprah video from Auschwitz
10/12: We reviewed Night for the test on Thursday
10/13: I didn't even get to see 2nd due to PSAT testing but the rest of us went over the words from Unit 5 vocab and did CTS for that unit
10/14: Today! Night test and catch up on vocab 5.
10/15: We will review our performance on the Night test and we will preview for a nonfiction piece on tornadoes by participating in a Listening/Speaking/Viewing activity. For those of you who won't be here for the band trip, the link to the video is: http://www.hulu.com/watch/14279/atmospheric-pressure-roger-hills-ultimate-tornadoes
For my band kids: download the tornado piece to read for monday and the questions here:
Storm Country Page 1
Storm Country Page 2
Storm Country Page 3
Storm Country Page 4
Storm Country Questions
Friday, October 1, 2010
Week of 10/4-10/8
Here is what is coming up for our first full week of ROCKtober….
Monday 10/4 How does an author’s TONE influence biographical writing?
-Vocab 4 CTRW check
-What makes a great leader? Ranking activity
-What is TONE? See page 498
-Vocabulary in context see page 498
-excerpt from “A Lincoln Preface” by Carl Sandburg p499 : reading and creating a TONE chart
HW: finish chapter s 4 and 5 of Night [assigned over the weekend] and review. Be prepared for a reading check. Also review vocab for quiz on Thursday 10/7 *Bring textbook again tomorrow*
Tuesday 10/5 How does an author’s TONE influence biographical writing?
-Continue “Lincoln Preface” p 499 and discuss TONE chart
-Questions page 507: 1-4 plus the Big Question at the end.
-Night ch 4/5 reading check
HW: read chapter 6 in Night and bring to class tomorrow
Wednesday 10/6 What are the strongest images from Night?
-Discuss chapter 6 of Night
-Review Night study guide
-Introduce One-Pager Assignment for Night
-Begin the Oprah video special with Elie Wiesel [Be there for this! It is an extraordinary view of the book’s settings with the author/survivor himself]
HW: One-pager due Friday; review vocab for quiz tomorrow
Thursday 10/7 What are the strongest images from Night?
-Vocab 4 quiz
-Oprah/ Wiesel video continued
HW: review materials for Night CFA tomorrow; the CSA will be Monday
Friday 10/8
-Night CFA: take/grade/discuss/reteach
-One-Pager Assignment due
-Study Guide review
HW: review for Night CSA on MONDAY!!!!!!!
*****By the way, the next novel study is Anthem by Ayn Rand. You should have a copy by next Friday 10/15************
Monday 10/4 How does an author’s TONE influence biographical writing?
-Vocab 4 CTRW check
-What makes a great leader? Ranking activity
-What is TONE? See page 498
-Vocabulary in context see page 498
-excerpt from “A Lincoln Preface” by Carl Sandburg p499 : reading and creating a TONE chart
HW: finish chapter s 4 and 5 of Night [assigned over the weekend] and review. Be prepared for a reading check. Also review vocab for quiz on Thursday 10/7 *Bring textbook again tomorrow*
Tuesday 10/5 How does an author’s TONE influence biographical writing?
-Continue “Lincoln Preface” p 499 and discuss TONE chart
-Questions page 507: 1-4 plus the Big Question at the end.
-Night ch 4/5 reading check
HW: read chapter 6 in Night and bring to class tomorrow
Wednesday 10/6 What are the strongest images from Night?
-Discuss chapter 6 of Night
-Review Night study guide
-Introduce One-Pager Assignment for Night
-Begin the Oprah video special with Elie Wiesel [Be there for this! It is an extraordinary view of the book’s settings with the author/survivor himself]
HW: One-pager due Friday; review vocab for quiz tomorrow
Thursday 10/7 What are the strongest images from Night?
-Vocab 4 quiz
-Oprah/ Wiesel video continued
HW: review materials for Night CFA tomorrow; the CSA will be Monday
Friday 10/8
-Night CFA: take/grade/discuss/reteach
-One-Pager Assignment due
-Study Guide review
HW: review for Night CSA on MONDAY!!!!!!!
*****By the way, the next novel study is Anthem by Ayn Rand. You should have a copy by next Friday 10/15************
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