English 9 - Finish reading "The Cask of Amontillado" and view the film. Your vocabulary and inferences from "The Cask..." are due tomorrow. Grammar recharge 92.

Accelerated - Fallout shelter activity. What does it say about intelligence based on who you save?

English 9 - Power reading group presentations. Vocab from "The Cask of Amontillado"

Accelerated - Power reading presentations. Practice Works Cited page/writing time for MI paper. Works Cited practice is due tomorrow.

English 9 - Vocabulary pre-test. Recap E.A. Poe and read a few examples of his poetry.

Accelerated - Works Cited example page. Complete the practice/hypothetical Works Cited page for Wednesday.

ALL CLASSES - QUARTER 1 POWER READING IS DUE TOMORROW 10/25

English 9 - Grammar recharge #71 "Action and linking verbs." Edgar Allan Poe author background. Read pages 194-197 for tomorrow.

Accelerated - Research and writing in the 9th grade lab.

English 9 - Read "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson.

Accelerated - 9th lab for MI writing/research. Paper outline and scoring passed out.

English 9 - Disaster Poems based on "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Write a 4 Stanza, 16 line, poem. For a B add the ABCB rhyming scheme to your work. For an A add the Longfellow rhythm. He does this by using different syllable counts. The example poem starts on page 125 in your textbook.

English 9 - Poems from "Marigolds" are due. Start reading "Sorry Right Number" by Stephen King.

Accelerated - Continue look at individual intelligences from the MI theory. Examples and jobs discussion.

English 9 - Reading day. Read for 30 minutes in your power reading book and write a 1/3 to 1/2 page reaction.

Accelerated - Correct part 1 and 2 in the "Of Mice and Men" test. Multiple intelligence overview and paper assignment.

English 9 - Continue working on Memoir poems that focus on adjective and noun use to describe a scene, DUE MONDAY. 169-170 in the Grammar Recharge packet focusing on capitalization.

Accelerated - "Of Mice and Men" test. MI inventory due tomorrow.

English 9 - Finish reading "Marigolds" and start on the descriptive poems about a poignant memory.

Accelerated - Journals due, finish notes on "Of Mice and Men" Test tomorrow.

English 9 - Read Vietnam articles. Start "Marigolds."

Accelerated - Finish viewing "Of Mice and Men" film. Start review notes for the book and John Steinbeck.

English 9 - Turn in the inferences and vocab for "Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?" Discuss degrees of Irony and listen to/view "One" by Metallica.

Accelerated - Trial parts announced. Continue "OMaM" film.