October 28, 2010

English 9 - Irony paper. Rough drafts of introductions and body portions of the essay are due on Monday. Writing time after looking at example.

Accelerated - Making inferences. Read "The Cask of Amontillado."

October 26, 2010

English 9 - Short Story Unit Test

Accelerated - Disaster Poems are due. Read "Sorry Right Number" by Stephen King.

October 25, 2010

English 9 - Review Jeopardy today. Review Grid due tomorrow. TEST Tomorrow.

Accelerated - Grammar recharge. Review Poem assignment, disaster poems are due tomorrow.

October 20, 2010

English 9 - Work on the short story review grid. It is due before you take the test on Tuesday, October 26.

Accelerated - Read "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson for Monday. Keep working on your disaster poems.

October 19, 2010

English 9 - Vocabulary and inferences due from "The Cask of Amontillado." Read "Annabel Lee and The Bells" by E.A. Poe. Review short story list.

Accelerated - Read "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Longfellow. Disaster poems assignment, Due Tuesday 10/26.

October 18, 2010

English 9 - Finish reading "The Cask of Amontillado" and watch the film version. Discuss names, irony, and character flaws. Vocab and Inferences are due tomorrow.

Accelerated - Finish posters and present them. Read the excerpt of "The Perfect Storm" in your textbook for tomorrow.

October 15, 2010

English 9 - Read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. Complete the inferences on the yellow handout dealing with the quotes that Montressor, the narrator and killer seeking vengeance, says in the story. The inferences will be due on Tuesday.

Accelerated - Work on your group poster poems from the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia Collier. We'll finish them up and present them on Monday.

October 14, 2010

English 9 - Disaster Poems are due Friday written or printed on unlined paper. Here is the scoring breakdown for the poems: A Range = 4 stanza poem that follows the ABCB Rhyming pattern and the Longfellow Rhythm. B Range = 4 stanza poem that follows the ABCB rhyming pattern. C Range = 4 stanza poem. Please email me if you have any questions.

Accelerated - Finish "Marigolds" and start group posters with text poems.

October 11, 2010

English 9 - Discuss the crisis in "The Perfect Storm." Read "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Create a poem about a disaster, big or small, due Friday.

Accelerated - Discuss "The Most Dangerous Game." Irony definition and examples from the text. Background on the 1960's.

October 8, 2010

English 9 - "2 Faced" drawings are due. Grammar Recharge 169 dealing with capitalization. Read "The Perfect Storm" on page 112-121 for Monday.

Accelerated - Grammar Recharge 48 dealing with abstract and concrete nouns as a group. Read "The Most Dangerous Game" on page 32 for Monday.

October 6, 2010

English 9 - NWEA results and discussion. Look at the quote "The true measure of a persons character is how they act when they think nobody is looking." Read "The Possibility of Evil" for tomorrow.

Accelerated - NWEA results and discussion. Vocabulary for "The Necklace." Read the story for tomorrow.

October 4, 2010

English 9 - Finish group posters and present them. NWEA Testing schedule for tomorrow. Please eat a good breakfast and try your best on the test.

Accelerated - Correct the textbook scavenger hunt. Parts of fiction and reading strategies. NWEA Testing schedule for tomorrow.


Conferences Thursday: I will be there between 6:30 and 7:00 until 7:30 due to coaching. Please let me know if you need to get in touch outside of this time frame, I can free up some time in order to do so.