Grade 9 students study these words for a quiz.
Grade 11 students who did not complete the creation myth as assigned, write and type the two make-up essays as prescribed.
For Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Grade 11 students complete the study guide for The Crucible and be prepared for a test that will be multiple choice, short answer and/or essay.
For Thursday, September 15, 2011
Grade 9 students complete your metaphoric mind map. No more class time will be allotted and late maps will not be graded..
For Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Grade 9 students who did not complete the previous persuasive essay as prescribed, complete the make-up task exactly as prescribed.
For Friday, September 23, 2011
Have all Required Supplies, including a binder with at least ten sheet protectors, within which you place the following handouts:
> Class Syllabus
> Literary and Rhetorical Terms
> Menu of Literary Elements and Devices
> How to Read a Narrative
> Reading Group Procedures
> Question Procedures
and other handouts yet to be handed out.
For Monday, September 26, 2011
Complete Writers Workshop Task #1, which involves the autobiographical narrative.
NARRATIVE RUBRIC
For Friday, September 30, 2011
Study literary terms 1-34 along with admonish, meticulous, fastidious, unanimous, ethos, logos and pathos for tomorrow's quiz.
For Monday, October 3, 2011
Complete Writers Workshop Task #2, which involves choosing from the Writers Workshop menu. NO SCHOOL MON. BUT STILL DUE.
For Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Grade 9 complete your Imaginator.
For Friday, October 7, 2011
Complete this make-up task, if you did not meet the original deadline for the autobio narrative.
For Friday, October 14, 2011
Take the Sentence Types quiz online and email your results to st@webstaclecourse.com before 8am. And, Gr. 9, study Lit Terms 1-34.
Due Thursday, October 27, 2011
Gr. 9, finish Of Mice and Men and your product.
Gr. 11 review the Evidence of Lit Devices Menu.
Have syllabus signed by all designated parties.
For Friday, August 19, 2011
Have all required supplies, including a text for Sustained Silent Reading. If you need help acquiring supplies, please see Ms. K after school.
For Monday, August 22, 2011
Have all required supplies, including a text for Sustained Silent Reading. If you need help acquiring supplies, please see Ms. K after school.
For Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Make sure to have a text to read for SSR.
For Thursday, August 25, 2011
Make sure to have a text to read for SSR.
For Friday, August 26, 2011
Grade 11 students complete first draft of creation myth.
For Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Grade 11 students complete final draft (typed in MLA format) of creation myth.
IMPORTANT: For all typed essays, you may NOT ask a staff member to print your essay the day it is due. If you want to use a school printer, use it at least ONE SCHOOL DAY BEFORE your essay is due. Otherwise there will be 100 or more students clamoring to use the various printers, staff members will have to stop what they are doing, students will be late for class, and all kinds of last-minute mayhem will ensue. Planning ahead is tantamount to responsibility, which is the first RISE value, so please plan ahead.
For Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Grade 9 students complete, by the end of class, the first draft (handwritten or typed) of your persuasive essay.
Use as optional tools this menu of evidence and this evidence collector.
For Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Grade 9 students complete final draft of persuasive essay - typed and in MLA format.
PERSUASIVE RUBRIC
IMPORTANT: For all typed essays, you may NOT ask a staff member to print your essay the day it is due. If you want to use a school printer, use it at least ONE SCHOOL DAY BEFORE your essay is due. Otherwise there will be 100 or more students clamoring to use the various printers, staff members will have to stop what they are doing, students will be late for class, and all kinds of last-minute mayhem will ensue. Planning ahead is tantamount to responsibility, which is the first RISE value, so please plan ahead.