Thursday, October 20, 2011

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."

Monday, October 17, 2011

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.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

STUDY HELP!!!

NINTH GRADERS!!!

Need help studying for your test???

Click here: http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_1/IMQLZ.htm

Then press the "PLAY" button at the bottom and choose any one of the review games!!

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT ANY OF THE QUESTIONS.  I WILL BE CHECKING TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE AS I LEFT THEM.

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.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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.