Day 24

NINTH LIT

• Students self-edited their essays.  THESE ARE DUE NEXT CLASS!!!
• Reminder, we will be taking a Make-up Exam on the 25/26th!!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students diagrammed our sentence for DGP. We will have a quiz over DGP next class!!
• We then annotated Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention" and Phillis Wheatley's poem "To His Excellency, General Washington."

Day 23

NINTH LIT

•  Students' rough drafts were checked for a grade then peer-edited.
• We then moved into the lab to revise our papers.  Students need to have their edited rough drafts printed and finished by next class!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students found the clauses and sentence types of our DGP.
• We then completed a WebQuest over Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia Convention and annotated the speech as we worked.

Day 22

NINTH LIT

• Students spent the class period writing their rough drafts of their short story assignment (see previous post).  These rough drafts are due next class!!

AMERICAN LIT

•  Students found the sentence parts during  their DGP opening assignment.
• We went back over "The Crisis" and spent the rest of class finishing our annotation.

Day 21

NINTH LIT

• Students completed a journal on stories from their childhood.
• We then introduced our new writing project!! Students will be writing a one-page typed story of their choosing.  There are a few requirements:
• It must have a suspenseful or twist ending
• It must be school appropriate
• It must have 10 words from our vocab lists
• We spent the rest of class prewriting for our stories.

AMERICAN LIT

• Students did their first DGP activity, finding the parts of speech in the sentence "Your friend from Switzerland is a good student."
• We then took notes on annotation and used these notes to begin annotating Thomas Paine's "The Crisis 1"

Day 20

NINTH LIT

• Students took their Short Story Unit and Lit Terms test.

AMERICAN LIT

• Students took a quiz on grammar and on their Revolutionary vocabulary
• Students finished their match game from the previous class.

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Have fun and study hard!

Day 19

NINTH LIT

• Students took their DGP and Vocab quizzes after turning in their DGP and Vocab packets for a grade
• We then had a review session for our Short Story Unit Test on Friday/Monday
• REMINDER!!! Your Short Story Unit Test is on Friday/Monday!!! STUDY!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students finished taking Grammar notes.  There will be a short grammar quiz next class!
• We reviewed our terms from last class.  There will be a short quiz over these vocab words next class!
• Students then began a "Match Game" where they found facts about the 13 colonies and learned about important people and works of literature from the time period.

Day 18

NINTH LIT

• Students diagrammed their DGP sentence.
• We spent time working on vocabulary.
• REMINDER!!! Students have a DGP/Vocabulary combo quiz next class!!!  Their vocabulary words are:
• Adjourn, alien, comely, compensate, dissolute, erratic, expulsion, feint, fodder, fortify, illegible, jeer, lucrative, mediocre, proliferate, subjugate, sully, tantalize, terse, unflinching.
• Students took notes on how to annotate a piece of literature and then verbally annotated as a class Ray Bradbury's "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind."
• REMINDER!!! Students have their Short Story Unit Test on Friday, October 7, and Monday, October 10!!

AMERICAN LIT

• Students continued their grammar notes from last class, taking notes on sentence parts.
• Students completed their differentiated vocabulary sheets over the following words:
• Parallelism, oratory, repetition, exclamation, rhetorical questions, restatement, and charged words.