Pd. 1 - English 9B Agenda and Homework Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Semester 6
- Department
- English
- Location
- Rm. 316
- Description
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Week 1 - 4/30/07-5/4/07
Monday, 4/30/07- Journal/Warm-up: Write about a time you read something that opened up your eyes to a new idea or discovery. You may write about a book, magazine, newspaper, advertisement, brochure, or any other type of text. Your journal entry should be approximately 1/2 a page.
- Review course syllabus (download 9B07springsyllabus)
- Expository bubble map notes
- Group expository composition- With a partner, write an expository paragraph describing how to brush your teeth well. This is a pre-assessment, so do your best.
- Review all paragraphs written by teams and create a criteria chart. The criteria we came up with in class included:
- an interesting topic sentence
- lots of relevant details
- transition words (i.e...first, second, last)
- ideas written in a logical, coherent order
- concluding sentence that wraps up all main points
- HW: Write one expository paragraph about how to do something you know how to do well. Keep in mind the criteria we came up with in class. Also, bring in the signed "Parent Acknowledgment" slip.
Tuesday, 5/1/07- Create Vocabulary Journal
- Using the 5Ws and H to write good summaries.
- Whole Class Practice: “Search and Rescue Dogs”
- Group practice: Trans Fats Banned
- Calendar
- HW: Finish writing expository paragraphs on Trans-Fats article using 5Ws to guide you.
Wednesday, 5/2/07- SSR
- Vocabulary journal – Terms from “Trans Fat Article”
- Exempt (adj or verb) to free a person from a duty or requirement
- Synonyms: freed, cleared, excused, excluded, excepted
- Antonym: bound, liable, responsible for, blame
- Sentence: Food items sold in their manufacturers’ sealed packaging would be exempt.
- Consume (v) (1) use up OR (2) eat/drink something or (3) to be obsessed by something
- Synonym: (1) deplete, exhaust, expend, squander, waste (2) devour, gorge, inhale, guzzle (3) absorb, engrossed, preoccupied, fascinated
- Antonym: (1) conserve, save, (2) starve, fast (3) disinterested, passive,
- Sentence: Most trans fats that are consumed are formed when vegetable oil is treated with hydrogen to create baked goods and other items with a longer shelf life.
- Exempt (adj or verb) to free a person from a duty or requirement
- Review HW – Trans Fat Article
- Read and annotate article with students
- Chart questions from annotations
- Order questions (problem – solution organization method)
- Outline paragraph
- HW: Re-write final draft of Trans-Fat Summary, and turn in both rough draft, 5 Ws chart, and final draft tomorrow. Complete vocabulary practice 1.
Thursday, 5/3/07- SSR
- Vocabulary journal – Terms from "Illiteracy Reinforces Prisoners' Captivity"
- Congenial (adj)
- Someone with a pleasant or friendly personality
- Synonym: favorable, friendly, amicable, sociable
- Antonym: unfriendly, hostile, disagreeable
- Legitimate (adj) or (v)
- (1) born of legally married parents (adj)
- (2) something that is legal/lawful (adj/v)
- (3) real, genuine (adj)
- Synonym: (1) legit (2) allowable, acceptable, lawful, warranted (3) authentic, verified, bona fide credible
- Antonym: (1) bastard (2) illegal, wrong (3) fake, bogus, counterfeit, “bootleg”
- Congenial (adj)
- Read “Illiteracy Reinforces Prisoners' Captivity” article whole class (download below)
- Group Work: (In groups, you will be assigned a certain section of the text we have just read, and you will complete the 5Ws chart together. The protocol is listed below:
- Assign member roles
- Read section and annotate for questions and key words
- Scribe 1 writes down questions as group reads
- Word wizard looks up vocabulary words
- Scribe 2 copies onto poster
- Presenter presents poster to whole class
- HW: Vocabulary Practice 2 and Binder check 1
Friday, 5/4/07- Vocabulary journal – Terms from “Trans Fat Article”
- Vulnerable(adj)
- Capable of being hurt or weak
- Synonym: defenseless, exposed, unprotected, unsafe, susceptible
- Antonym: guarded, protected, safe
- Adamant (adj)
- Someone who is determined or insistent; someone whose attitude or opinion is hard to change or break
- Synonym: rigid, stubborn, inflexible
- Antonym: soft, flexible, easygoing
- Vulnerable(adj)
- Finish 5 Ws chart with group
- Finish poster
- Elect presenter
- Teacher synthesizes ideas on overhead as each group presents
- Think aloud to order questions and create outline
- HW: Write rough draft summary paragraph of reading, double spaced
Week 2 - 5/7/07-5/11/07
Monday, 5/7/07- SSR
- Vocabulary Journal:
- divulge (v) to reveal or share information about self
- synonym: disclose, share, tell, communicate, reveal
- antonym: conceal, hide, keep secret
- explicit (adj) (1) fully and clearly explained (i.e…explicit instructions) (2) describing or showing sexual acts or words
- synonym: (1) definite, precise, exact (2) inappropriate, offensive, crass
- antonym (1) unclear, ambiguous, confusing (2) conservative, censored, appropriate
- divulge (v) to reveal or share information about self
- Review expository reading checklist
- In groups, read "Adults Question MySpace"
- In groups, complete Key Concept Synthesis chart
- HW: Vocabulary Practice 3 (Vocabulary Quiz on Friday!!!)
Tuesday, 5/8/07- SSR
- Vocabulary
- 1. refrain (v) to hold yourself back from saying or doing something
- a. synonym: abstain, cease, stop, resist, withhold
- b. antonym: give in, indulge, imbibe, surrender, partake
- 2. prohibit (v) to stop an action or activity or to forbid the actions of a person
- 1. synonym: ban, disallow, forbid, restrict, outlaw
- 2. antonym: allow, authorize, permit
- 1. refrain (v) to hold yourself back from saying or doing something
- Complete charts in groups
- HW: Complete vocabulary exercise 4; Study for vocabulary quiz - The quiz will be on FRIDAY!
Wednesday, 5/9/07- SSR
- Vocabulary Journal:
- 1. entice (v) to get someone to do something by offering promises or reward
- synonym: tempt, lure, attract, seduce, persuade
- antonym: repel, scare off, dissuade, turn away
- 2. lament (1.) (v) to mourn for; to feel sorrow; (2) (n) an expression of regret or sorrow or grief
- synonym: (1) bewail, bemoan, weep; cry (2) lamentation, moan, cry
- antonym: (1)celebrate, rejoice, laugh; (2) laugh;
- 1. entice (v) to get someone to do something by offering promises or reward
- Practice quiz questions
- Complete MySpace charts in groups
- Gallery Walk - Compare charts and circle key information
- Begin outline and summary for MySpace article
- Calendar
- HW: Summary paragraph of MySpace article and finish Vocab.Quiz1Practice
Thursday, 5/10/07- SSR
- Read “Thou Shalt Not Blog”
- Compare/Contrast 3-column chart
- Review game
- HW: Study for Vocabulary Quiz (all 12 words); Binder check 2 – Key Concept Chart for “Adults Questions MySpace” and Compare/Contrast 3-column chart for “Adults Question MySpace” article v. “Thou Shalt Not Blog” article
Friday, 5/11/07- SSR
- Quiz 1
- Begin writing compare/contrast outline
- Writing workshop
- Complete outline for body paragraphs in compare/contrast outline
Week 3 5/14/07-5/18/07
Monday, 5/14/07- SSR
- Review sample body paragraph for compare/contrast essay
- Review transition sentences
- Writing workshop - work on writing body paragraphs
- HW: Finish body paragraph #s 1-2
Tuesday, 5/15/07- SSR
- Notes: Components of an Introduction Paragraph (binder check item)
- Revise sample introduction paragraph in groups
- Analyze sample introduction together
- Writing workshop: Begin writing your sample introduction paragraph
- HW: Finish rough draft of introduction paragraph
Wednesday, 5/16/07- SSR
- Work on body paragraphs, introduction with substitute
- HW: Continue working on essay; bring in computer username and password for computer lab day tomorrow
Thursday, 5/17/07- SSR
- Writing a Conclusion - Cup Analogy Worksheet
- Writing Workshop - Begin concluding paragraph
- Computer lab
- HW: Finish rough draft of concluding paragraph, turn in Binder Check 3
Friday, 5/18/07- SSR
- Review MLA Formatting
- Computer lab
- Writing workshop
- HW: Continue working on essay
Week 4 - Midterm Week- 5/21/07-5/25/07
Monday, 5/21/07- Computer lab to finish typing essay
- Essay deadline extended to Wednesday, 5/23/07
Tuesday, 5/22/07- CST Testing - English Language Arts
Wednesday, 5/23/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Vocabulary Journal
- Metaphor
- Tenor
- Vehicle
- Simile
- Listen to/ Read lyrics for "Desire" and identify metaphors and similes.
- Complete paragraph outline for "Desire"
- HW: Outline and paragraph are due on Friday
Thursday, 5/24/07- CST Science Test
- HW: Complete outline and paragraph for "Desire"
Friday, 5/25/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Review metaphors/similes
- Metaphor activity
- Read "Hairs" by Sandra Cisneros
- Complete copy change
- HW: complete copy change; follow criteria
- 2 paragraphs
- 5 similes and/or metaphors
Week 5 - 5/29/07 - 6/1/07
Tuesday, 5/29/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Posters - metaphor, simile
- Vocabulary journal – personification
- a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
- Ex: The sun galloped across the sky.
- The storm winds angrily pushed aside anything that got in its way.
- What’s being personified: storm winds
- How: human attitude (anger)
- The night rain sang a sad song as it fell upon the earth.
- What’s being personified: rain
- How: Human action (singing)
- Practice: Personification exercise
- HW: Complete personification exercise
Wednesday, 5/30/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Personification poster
- Read "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and analyze for personification
- Composition - write one paragraph about Kilmer's use of personification in the poem "Trees."
- Read "House on Mango Street" vignette and analyze for figurative language
- Extra credit opportunity: Copy change this chapter, exactly like you did with the "Hairs" chapter. The title of this copy change will be "The House on _________________" or "The Apartment on ____________________." Your vignette should be approximately one page written, double spaced, and should include the following in the description of your home:
- 1 metaphor
- 2 similes
- 3 personification
- Extra credit opportunity: Copy change this chapter, exactly like you did with the "Hairs" chapter. The title of this copy change will be "The House on _________________" or "The Apartment on ____________________." Your vignette should be approximately one page written, double spaced, and should include the following in the description of your home:
- HW: Complete personification paragraph
Thursday, 5/31/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Vocabulary Journal - alliteration and onomatopoeia
- Read Vachel Lindsay's "Congo" and identify figurative language
- Complete sound devices practice
- Begin sound devices story
- HW: Complete sound devices story and practice if not complete in class
Friday, 6/1/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Warm-up: Review HW by sharing your examples of alliteration and personification. Create one poster for each.
- Vocabulary journal:
- Hyperbole
- Figure of speech in which the author overexaggerates or overdramatizes to emphasize a point.
- Ex:
- I could sleep for a year.
- This box weighs a ton.
- I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
- Your mother is so small she does chin-ups on the curb.
- My grandparents are ancient.
- Read “What is Bad” and analyze for hyperbole. Then, write a paragraph describing what effect he’s trying to achieve through these hyperboles.
- Practice writing hyperboles
- HW: Finish paragraph on "What is Bad" and also complete hyperbole exercise
Week 6 - 6/4/07 - 6/9/07
Monday, 6/4/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Complete hyperbole practice
- Warm-up: Review HW by sharing your examples of hyperboles. Create one poster.
- Vocabulary journal:
- Diction: refers to the writer’s or speaker’s choice of words. Writers choose words for their connotations as well as their denotations.
- Ex:
- Clothing v. apparel (simple v. flower)
- Dress v. frock (modern v. old fashioned)
- Pants v. Seven jeans (general v. specific)
- Tone: The attitude a writer takes towards a subject, character, or reader. Tone is shown through the writer’s diction.
- The mind has a thousand eyes/ And the heart but one:/ Yet the light of a whole life dies/ When love is done.
- Main subject? Love
- Author’s attitude towards love? He puts it on a pedestal. Nothing is more important.
- Diction that emphasizes this: “whole life dies”
- Mood: a story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader.
- Ex:
- A flurry of wind sent the leaves tumbling end over end ahead of her along the dark, glistening pavement. Thin, cold drizzle, driven by the wind, wrapped a clammy embrace round her hurrying figure…”
- What is the mood of this poem? The mood is ominous or dark. The setting is cold and rainy and almost sets the scene for something bad to happen.
- Diction: refers to the writer’s or speaker’s choice of words. Writers choose words for their connotations as well as their denotations.
- Read “Tropics of New York” and analyze diction, tone, and mood.
- HW: Study for quiz on figurative language quiz; begin study guide
Tuesday, 6/5/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Review study guide/complete in class
- Review game
- HW: Study for quiz on figurative language quiz; begin study guide
Wednesday, 6/6/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Take figurative language quiz
- Read selected chapter from House on Mango Street and find examples of figurative language
- HW: None
Thursday, 6/7/07- Sub day - watch Big Fish
Friday, 6/8/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Vocabulary journal - Theme
- Read "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark" and identify themes in story
- Complete say-mean-matter chart
- HW: complete chart and write one paragraph about the theme in the story
Week 7 - 6/11/07 - 6/15/07
Monday, 6/11/07- Finish watching Big Fish
- Finish paragraph and say-mean-matter chart on "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark."
- HW: Complete paragraph and say-mean-matter chart
Tuesday, 6/12/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Post-it: QUICKFLOP reading strategy introduction
- Practice QUICKFLOP with "Early in the Morning"
- Apply: Read "The Road Not Taken" and annotate using QUICKFLOP strategy
- HW: Finish QUICKFLOP Chart
Wednesday, 6/13/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Review quality commentary checklist
- Complete sample say-mean-matter chart for "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark"
- Revise first draft of say-mean-matter chart and complete paragraph
- HW: Complete revised say-mean-matter chart and paragraph
Thursday, 6/14/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Read "Those Winter Sundays"
- Complete QUICKFLOP chart
- Complete say-mean-matter chart
- HW: complete quickflop chart, say-mean-matter chart, and theme paragraph for "Those Winter Sundays"
Friday, 6/15/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Read and annotate "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
- Complete say-mean-matter chart
- HW: Complete say-mean-matter chart and theme paragraph for story of an hour.
Week 8- 6/18/07 - 6/22/07
Monday, 6/18/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Read "So I Ain't No Good Girl"
- Discuss whole class
- Complete S-M-M Chart
- Computer lab - type up paragraph on "Story of an Hour"
- HW: Turn in S-M-M chart and paragraph for "So I Ain't No Good Girl" and if you have not done so already, turn in the original AND revised paragraphs for "Story of an Hour"
Tuesday, 6/19/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Read "Marigolds"
- Complete comprehension questions
- complete S-M-M chart and paragraph
- HW: S-M-M chart/ paragraph for "Marigolds"
Wednesday, 6/20/07- SSR/Dialogue Journal
- Lesson - Integrating Quotes
- Computer lab - make-up day
- HW: start studying for final; final will be on Tuesday
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Past Assignments
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- Finish S-M-M chart and paragraph for "Marigolds"
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- S-M-M chart and paragraph for "So I Ain't No Good Girl"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
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- S-M-M chart and paragraph for "So I Ain't No Good Girl"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
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- S-M-M chart and paragraph for "So I Ain't No Good Girl"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
- S-M-M chart and revised paragraph for "Story of an Hour"
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- Complete say-mean-matter chart and theme paragraph for "The Story of an Hour."
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- Complete revised say-mean-matter chart and paragraph for "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark." Turn in tomorrow with first draft of paragraph and say-mean-matter chart. Remember to use your quality commentary checklist.
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- Finish say-mean-matter chart and paragraph on "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark"
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- After reading "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer, write one paragraph that explains her use of personification. Use the outline attached to get started. I will be collecting both the outline and paragraph tomorrow.
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- Complete personification exercise if not complete in class
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- Copy change for "Hairs" - Write two paragraphs about your own family, and model these two paragraphs after Sandra Cisneros's vignette, "Hairs." Be sure to include at least five metaphors and/or similes. Double space your work. See sample for further explanation.
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- Compare/Contrast essay is due at the end of period on Monday. Please continue to work on your drafts over the weekend.
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- Complete rough draft of concluding paragraph
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- complete outline for body paragraphs 1-3 in compare/contrast outline
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- Complete Vocabulary Practice #4
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- Vocabulary Practice 3
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- Write one rough draft summary paragraph of the article "Illiteracy Reinforces Prisoners' Captivity." Use the 5Ws questions to organize your information.
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