Monday, March 30:
- Begin your Elizabethan Era Mini-Research Project! Use the iPads to begin researching your assigned topic with your group. Keep track of the websites that you use for your Works Cited page. Here is the link to the website with all of the research information: http://cehs.clovisusd.libguides.com/content.php?pid=72201&sid=2422137
- Finish compiling your 10 most important facts for your group's topic by the end of the hour
- HW: Bring 3 pictures that represent your group's topic to class tomorrow (to use for the poster)
- Sonnet Assignment due tomorrow
- Fiction this week (on Thursday)
Tuesday, March 31:
- Turn in Sonnet Assignment
- Finish your research and begin putting your poster together. All information and images should be on the poster. Make it creative, neat, and attractive.
- HW: Use EasyBib to create your Works Cited page
Wednesday, April 1:
- Finish poster/rehearse for presentations
- Group project presentations
- Individual student reflections on you and your group members' contributions to the project. Submit these with your posters and Works Cited pages.
Thursday, April 2:
- Fiction Friday #4:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Monday, March 23:
- Warm-Up
- Finish Shakespeare packet: Prologue analysis + questions for Romeo and Juliet
- Notes: Sonnets
- Non-Fiction this week!
Tuesday, March 24:
- Activity: Sonnet translations (you and your group members may use a dictionary or thesaurus!)
- Sonnet Assignment info + guidelines
Wednesday, March 25:
- Computer lab time to work on sonnets
Thursday, March 24:
- Watch "William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama" and complete the questions on the handout for your notes
Friday, March 25:
- Non-Fiction Friday #3:
- Write responses to the questions (listed on the handout) for your article (15 mins)
- Whole-class discussion on a chosen student's article. You must speak at least once in order to receive full credit for the discussion portion of your grade.
Monday, March 16:
- Pass back and go over Ch. 16-25 quiz
- Last day in the computer lab for essays. Finish editing and use the "Formal Writing No-Nos" sheet during the editing process. Final Draft due tomorrow!
- Fiction this week
- Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz on Friday
Tuesday, March 17:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Things Fall Apart Essay
- Notes: Iambic Pentameter
- Activity: In your small groups, create a short 4-line poem in iambic pentameter. Every other line should rhyme. We will share these as a whole class.
Wednesday, March 18:
- Warm-Up
- Begin working through "Helping to Understand Shakespeare" packet
Thursday, March 19:
- No class for English 9 (4th, 5th, and 6th hours half day)
Friday, March 20:
- Quiz: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Fiction Friday #3:
- Read your choice book. Continue to do so even after you finish your reading log.
- Complete your reading log: write one summary paragraph, one analytic paragraph, and one personal reaction paragraph. Follow the directions on the handout given to you. This is due at the end of the hour.
Monday, March 9:
- Substitute teacher today
- Quiz: Ch. 16-25
- Work on your essay outline packet. Tomorrow, I will check to see if 2 paragraphs of your choice are complete. One of these paragraphs MUST be a body paragraph.
Tuesday, March 10:
- Check paragraphs
- Computer lab to type essays
- Rough Draft due Thursday
Wednesday, March 11:
- Computer lab to type essays
Thursday, March 12:
- Rough Draft due - drafts will be stamped. Save your draft and turn it in on the final draft due date (Tuesday, March 17) for points.
- Self and peer editing in class
Friday, March 13:
Monday, March 2:
- Warm-Up
- Ch. 19-21 WWBS + discussion
- Things Fall Apart Argumentative Essay information packet
- Rough Draft due Thursday, March 12
- Final Draft due Tuesday, March 17
- HW: Read Ch. 22 by Wednesday
- Binder check on Friday
Tuesday, March 3:
- No school - ACT testing for Juniors
Wednesday, March 4:
- Things Fall Apart Argumentative Debate Activity
- One of the statements from the information packet will be read aloud. Choose the designated corner of the classroom (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree) that matches your opinion. Move your specified corner of the room and be ready to share your answer - and to debate with the opposing side!
- HW: Read Ch. 23 and complete the Brown vs. Smith character sheet by tomorrow
Thursday, March 5:
- Warm-Up
- Turn in Brown vs. Smith character sheet
- Notes: How to write a counter-argument and refutation
- Get started on choosing a topic, creating a thesis, and finding quotes OR you may read Things Fall Apart.
Friday, March 6:
- Binder check
- Continue to work on essay outline/finish the book
- HW: Read Ch. 24-25 (finish the book) by Monday
- Ch. 16-25 Quiz on Monday
