NINTH LIT
- Students found the clauses and sentences types in their DGP
- We then worked on our vocabulary packets.
- REMINDER: Your vocab/DGP quiz is next week on Wednesday/Thursday!!
- Students read "The Birthday Party" and rewrote the story from the point of view of the husband, wife, waiter, or other restaurant goer. They had to include
- One simile
- One form of alliteration
- One piece of imagery
- One piece of EITHER personification OR hyperbole
- REMINDER: This is due NEXT CLASS!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students turned in their Slackers essay and a discussion was had about doing work.
- We then took short notes on parts of speech.
- Students then began an activity on Revolutionary vocabulary which will be completed next class.
NINTH LIT
- Students completed their DGP, finding the subject, verb, etc.
- We then worked on a Vocabulary activity.
- REMINDER: Your DGP/Vocab quiz will be next week on Wednesday/Thursday!!
- Students were separated into groups and either worked on notecards or read "Sonata for Harp and Bicycle"
AMERICAN LIT
- WRITING TEST DAY!
- Students watched "John Adams" while taking notes and having grade conferences.
- REMINDER!!! YOUR SLACKERS ESSAY IS DUE NEXT CLASS
NINTH LIT
- Students worked on their new DGP sentence, finding the parts of speech: "Each of the girls did her homework."
- We then went over our new list of vocabulary words.
- Students completed reading "The Most Dangerous Game" and took a short quiz over it.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students received some notes on editing papers.
- They then used these notes to do a peer edit of their work, reading through each other's essays.
- THESE ESSAYS ARE DUE ON THURSDAY/FRIDAY!!!
- REMINDER: I will be staying after school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to edit papers!!
NINTH LIT
- Students wrote a journal on the topic of 'fear'.
- We continued our note taking and reading of "The Most Dangerous Game".
AMERICAN LIT
- After being given back last class's writing, students watched Ms. Robbins model a brainstorm, organizer, essay-writing, and editing. This was then used as a model for students' editing.
- Students must have their edited essay ready to go next class!!
NINTH LIT
- Students did a journal activity on 'reason' versus 'instinct'
- We then took notes on our lit terms, finding examples as we read Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game
AMERICAN LIT
- Students looked back at their "Top Ten" strategies then had an in-class write that took all period, concerning the topic of slacking in school.
NINTH LIT:
- Students took a vocabulary quiz over their twenty words.
- We then took a diagnostic lit terms pop quiz.
- Students began a 'body biography' activity where pictures became symbols assigned to a specific character, symbolizing their heart, lungs, hands, etc.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students looked at another example of good Writing Tests, taking notes on the "Top Ten Writing Test Strategies"
- We then did test corrections for the Puritan poetry test.
NINTH LIT
- Students did a vocabulary activity that will be collected next class for homework. They had to:
- Choose 5 words and find synonyms
- Choose 5 (different) words and find antonyms
- Use 5 (different) words in a small paragraph
- Choose 5 (different) words and create a picture for each one.
- They should use all 20 words by the end of this assignment
- VOCABULARY QUIZ NEXT CLASS!!!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did a short letter writing activity before having a good model of persuasive writing presented for them.
- We then did Puritan Poetry test corrections where the students corrected their answers and TPFASTT-ed "Huswifery"
NINTH LIT
- Students went over their new vocabulary words: admonish, breach, brigand, circumspect, commandeer, cumbersome, deadlock, debris, diffuse, dilemma, efface, muddle, opinionated, perennial, predispose, relinquish, salvage, spasmodic, spurious, unbridled.
- We then discussed the previous stories we had read and began our reading of "The Scarlet Ibis."
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed a short writing assignment before listening to a clip of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- We then annotated "Sinners" to find Puritan Plain Style, conceit, apostrophe, ethos, logos, pathos, metaphor, and simile.
NINTH LIT
- Students turned in their DGP work and took their first quiz.
- We then discussed the idea of theme and came up with three themes for "The Cask of Amontillado."
- Irony was discussed, which led to our reading of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace."
AMERICAN LIT
- Students finished their TAP writing on the 4-day versus 5-day workweek.
- We read and TPFASTTed two poems: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet and "Huswifery" by Edward Taylor. We then took a short test over the two poems.
NINTH LIT
- Students did the second half of DGP 1. They will have a quiz over this next class!
- We read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and discussed the irony and suspense within the short story. Students then completed a packet of worksheets. Any work not finished in class is homework!!
- If students do not have their books, they need to get them ASAP from the bookroom before school. An online copy of "TCoA" can be found here.
- Students will need their books next class!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed a TAP brainstorm on four-day workweeks.
- We then finished watching The Crucible and took a short quiz over it.
- Students will need their books next class!
NINTH LIT
- Students did their first DGP exercise
- We then finished any summer reading presentations. Any presentations not given in class will need to be given before or after school.
- Students will need their books next class!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students continued watching The Crucible and took Cornell notes while doing so.
