NINTH LIT
- Students completed their third day of DGP.
- We then wrote our intro and conclusion to our papers together as a class.
- Students then went to the lab to finish typing up their rough drafts. ROUGH DRAFTS MUST BE PRINTED OUT AND IN CLASS TOMORROW!!!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed their third day of DGP. They will have the fourth day PLUS their quiz next class.
- We covered definitons of the following terms: realism, regionalism, vernacular, frame narrative, and anecdote.
- We read a selection from Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help to discuss vernacular within the American south.
- Students then completed a guided reading worksheet as they read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain. This was turned in at the end of the class period.
- REMINDER!!! Students will be taking the first part of their realism test on Friday, March 2 or Monday, March 5!!!
NINTH LIT
- Students completed Day 2 of their DGP.
- We then practiced using 'elevated vocabulary' by finding higher level synonyms for common words such as "bad," "good," and "always."
- Students went into the lab to complete their body paragraphs.
- BODY PARAGRAPHS WILL BE TAKEN FOR A GRADE NEXT CLASS. If a student does not have them completed, they will be getting a fifty. If they do not have them at all, they will be getting a zero!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed Day 2 of their DGP
- We finished reading "My Bondage and My Freedom" and turned in our guided worksheets
- Students learned about diction and vernacular by reading a short selection from "The Help"
- We then began reading Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" using guided notes.
- REMINDER!!! Students need their books!
NINTH LIT
- Students completed Day 1 of their DGP using their new sentence "Can you come over and watch the movie Casablanca after school?"
- Students practiced writing a thesis/claim and had this approved by the teacher.
- We then went to the lab to begin working on our body paragraphs for our essays.
- NOTICE: Students research worksheets and notecards were taken up for a grade. These were worth three tests. If a student did not complete them, they must do so for homework ASAP!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed Day 1 of their DGP using their new sentence "Carla looked in the mirror at herself and recited the poem 'Fire and Ice.'"
- We took notes on our new unit vocabulary words: direct characterization, indirect characterization, stream of consciousness, allegory, allusion, author's purpose, mood, tone, conflict, refrain
- Students listened to the spirituals "Go Down, Moses" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and completed two worksheets on them
- We then began reading Frederick Douglass's "My Bondage and My Freedom" while working on a guided worksheet. This will be finished next class.
- REMINDER!!! Students will need their books for the next four classes AT LEAST.
NINTH LIT
- Students took their DGP quiz and turned in their weekly DGP work.
- Even day students completed a health survey in the lab with our administrator Ms. Walker.
- After going over essay writing tips, we took notes on the parts of an essay (Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion)
- Students then received their essay assignments. There are two differentiated groups:
- Group 1 will be writing about two genocides. They will have an introduction, a paragraph about one genocide including the who, what, where, when, and why, a paragraph about another genocide in the same fashion, and a conclusion.
- Group 2 will be writing about one genocide. They will have an introduction, a paragraph about where and when the genocide happened and to whom, a paragraph about why the genocide happened and events that occurred during it, a paragraph about how the genocide ended and any results, and a conclusion.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students took their DGP quiz and turned in their weekly DGP work
- Even day students went to the lab to complete a survey for our administrator Ms. Walker.
- Students finished reading "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and turned in their guided notes.
- REMINDER!!! YOU WILL NEED YOUR BOOKS IN CLASS FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
NINTH LIT
- Students completed their last day of DGP, diagramming the sentence.
- Odd day students went to room 212 to complete a health and wellness survey for Mrs. Walker, our administrator.
- After, students went to the lab to finish working on their research notecards from the previous day. These should be completed!!
- Students received a take-home quiz for "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier." THIS IS DUE NEXT CLASS!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed their last day of DGP, diagramming the sentence.
- Odd day students went to room 212 to complete a health and wellness survey for Mrs. Walker, our administrator.
- Student covered a few new terms such as stream-of-consciousness, flashback, point of view, etc.
- We then read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Stephen Crane and completed a series of guided questions as we read.
- REMINDER!!! Students will need their books next class!!!
NINTH LIT
- Students did their third day of DGP, finding clauses and sentence type.
- We then took notes on the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos, repetition, restatement, and parallelism.
- Students then went into the lab to work on research. They used the TrackStar website and track number 437838 to guide them. They had to find 3 genocides and answer the questions from their research packet on a series of notecards.
- REMINDER!!! You must have the book "A Long Way Gone" finished by next class! THERE WILL BE A QUIZ!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did their third day of DGP, finding clauses and sentence type.
- We went over the results of the pretest and collected data from it.
- Students then took a series of notes over realism.
- REMINDER!!! You will need your book next class!!!
NINTH LIT
- Students did the second day of their DGP, finding sentence parts.
- We did an intro activity to the rhetorical devices of ethos, pathos, and logos, using advertisements to find examples.
- We then read Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior's speech from the March on Washington, "I Have a Dream," and found examples of rhetoric within it.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did the second day of their DGP, finding sentence parts.
- We did a journal activity to practice our realistic writing skills.
- Students took the realism pre-test.
- We then worked on a packet that introduced the realism movement.
NINTH GRADE
- Students did the first day of DGP using our new sentence, "Sara read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird in her English class." We also took a few notes on editors' marks and corrected wrong sentences with them.
- We took notes on MLA citation, looking at how we will create a Works Cited page on our upcoming research paper. We then went to the lab to work on citing sources on TrackStar. If this was not finished in class, it is homework! It will be due next class!
- REMINDER: Students should have "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah finished by next class!! There will be a heavily-weighted quiz!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did the first day of DGP using our new sentence, "The Spanish Club traveled to Madrid, Spain, during the summer." We also took a few notes on editors' marks and corrected wrong sentences with them.
- Students then recapped what we had learned about Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and finished annotating their four poems: "I Hear America Singing" and "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Whitman, and "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" and "The Brain is Wider than the Sky" by Dickinson. If the annotations were not finished in class, students should complete them for homework!
NINTH LIT
- Students completed their resumes in class, using their biographies to guide them. These were turned in and will be graded.
- We then began the research portion of our research paper, using Trackstar to guide us to useful websites. Students should ONLY use the websites on our Trackstar during their research. The Trackstar website is http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ and the track number is 437838.
- Students should have read to page 166 of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah by next class!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students reviewed poetry terms and took some short notes on them.
- Students had a quick intro to the poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson before we annotated the poems "Song of Myself" and "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" as a class.
