English 9 (Period 6) Assignments
- Instructor
- Ms. Denise Gill
- Term
- 2017 - 2018 School Year
- Department
- English
- Description
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Past Assignments
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Final terms to know:
SPHS Writing Terms: assertion, topic sentence, thesis, concrete detail, commentary
Exposition
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Direct characterization
Indirect characterization
External conflict
Internal conflict
Mood
Tone
First person narrator
Third person limited narrator
Omniscient third person narrator
Motivation
Denotation
Connotation
Setting
Theme
Simile
Metaphor
Symbol
Sonnet
Internal monologue
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See attached.
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Finish your 4th IR book by today!
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Read your IR book for at least a half an hour and write a log.
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Choose two more This I Believe prompts (look at last week's homework posts) and write at least a half page each.
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Speak reflections attached.
Super QWs:
Describe a memorable holiday
Describe a time you were frustrated
A time you were embarrassed
A time you were proud
A favorite place
A lesson you learned
A dream you have
A first something
A goodbye
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“This I Believe"
Questions about the essays:
What does this person believe? Summarize in 2-3 sentences.
What kinds of details does the author include? Include 2-3 quotes to explain.
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- Most of us have been in a situation where we made a promise that for one reason or another we were unable to keep.
When were you disappointed because someone made you a promise that they failed to keep? Or when did you break a promise that you made to someone else?
- We all tend to judge people by their appearances, even though looks can be deceiving.
Have you ever prejudged someone incorrectly based on their appearance or has someone ever prejudged you unfairly based on how you look?
- All of us are works in progress with a long way to go before we reach our full potential.
In what skill or area are you still working to make progress?
- Everyone has problems or challenges to overcome.
What obstacles are you proud to have faced and conquered?
- Our society uses the word hero in many different ways?
How do you define hero, and who is a hero in your life?
- There is a famous adage: "To err is human, to forgive divine.”
When did you feel divine because you were able to forgive someone for his or her mistake? When did someone act divine by forgiving you when you were wrong?
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Finish reading "They're Loyal Fans and They Bake." Then, answer the following:
1. How does Carlip begin her essay? What kind of information does she give?
2. How does she end it?
3. Explain how she uses detail to help you understand who she was at the beginning. Include three quotes from the first page, and explain how these details help the reader know her as a character.
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Read you IR book and add a reading log.
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Read through page 155, and respond to the following two prompts:
Mistakes: Mr. Freeman also says that "art is about making mistakes and learning from them" (122). Isn't that what life is also like? How could you use this in your own life?
Now that you have heard Melinda's version of the story, what do you think she should do? What do you think it means that she has finally acknowledged—at least to herself—what happened that night?
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Read your IR book and add a reading log.
Answer these questions about "Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me?"
1. How does Kaling start her personal essay (be specific)?
2. For each page of the essay, find an example of a specific detail Kaling gives, include the quote, and explain how it helps your understanding of her essay.
3. What would you say the essay is about? Explain in a few sentences.
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Complete the attached Voice Lesson in your notebook.
Add this reflection from Speak:
- (Can It) Who are the Marthas and how is their club both good and bad? What qualities should a service club have? Are the Marthas good friends to Heather? Why or why not?
Previous reflections from Speak if you missed any:
- What are some of the lies you were told about high school? What truths were you told?
- Define sanctuary. What do you consider a sanctuary?
- Reflect on what she says about pseudo-friend.
- What parts of the book seem realistic? Unrealistic? Be specific and give examples.
- What signs of depression does Melinda have?
Second Marking Period: Reflect on the situation with the immigrant discussion. Why is David a hero? What do you think of him?
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Finish reading First Marking Period, and begin Second Marking Period, reading through "Job Day" on page 53. Add one more entry to your notebook:
Considering what you read the other day about depression in teenagers, what signs of depression does Melinda have? What other impressions do you have of her?
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Print your final draft of the Romeo and Juliet essay, and upload it to turnitin.com.
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Complete essay due today.
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Rough outline and introductory paragraph for Romeo and Juliet essay due today.
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Test today: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, poetic devices
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Answer the questions on the attached handout.
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Act 4 study guide due today.
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Add a reading log for your Q4 IR book (after reading for at least a half an hour).
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Finish reading Act 3 and finish the Act 3 Study Guide.
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Vocabulary test 2, on list from last week.
Pick a new IR book for Q4 by today and begin reading.
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Read and complete the Act 3 Study Guide, scenes 1 and 2
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Write the definition, part of speech, sentence as it appears in the play, your own original sentence, and create or find an image to represent each word.
Page 818: gallant, fray, exile, eloquence, fickle
Page 844: pensive, vial, wayward, dismal, loathsome, pilgrimage
Page 860: remnants, haughty, ambiguities, scourge
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Finish at least one IR book by today!
Quiz on Shakespeare, his theater, and Acts 1 and 2.
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Add another reading log for your IR book by today.
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Finish Act 2 and the study guide.
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Questions from scenes 1 and 2 of the Act 2 Study Guide due today.
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Act I Study Guide due today.
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Write the definition, part of speech, sentence as it appears in the play, your own original sentence, and create or find an image to represent each word.
p. 769
pernicious
augmenting
grievance
transgression
p. 794
cunning
procure
vile
predominant
sallow
waverer
lamentable
unwieldy
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Shakespeare quiz: Make sure you know about Renaissance Humanism and Shakespeare's life and his theater (meaning the structure of plays and how things work, not just the Globe).
Complete the attached Insults and Complements handout. (You may print it out or just complete it on a separate paper.)
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Please bring in TWO copies of your letter; one to send, one to turn in for a grade.
If you have blank business letter-sized envelopes you would like to donate for the class (any number; I have some, but will need two per student), please bring those, as well.
Review for the postponed quiz.
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Study for the 2nd poetry quiz, including both definitions and identifying and explaining examples.
Read your IR book and add another reading log.
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Complete your Trailer Plannine Guide:
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Complete the linked Voice Lesson in your notebook. Also, read more of your IR book and add a reading log. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CS-sGHiIeIn_C6PVHZwddXH4ivUFVKMkfU3N6JzCaNk/edit?usp=sharing
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Bring in a hard copy (printed out) of your letter.
Have a reading log for your new IR book in your notebook.
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Bring in definitions for poetry terms. Use your textbook for definitions!
Alliteration
Couplet
Diction
Figurative Language/ Figure of Speech
Imagery
Literal language
Lyric Poem
Metaphor
Personification
Prose
Quatrain
Repetition
Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Simile
Sonnet (English/Shakespearean and Italian/Petrachan)
Speaker
Tone
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Essay in-class and matching. You may bring in the work you have done on Raisin in the Sun to help you on the essay.
If you are doing a re-write of the Mockingbird essay, it is due today!
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Be ready to write about your 2nd IR book today.
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Finish reading articles and taking notes in your notebook.
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Finish your characterization paragraph in your notebook.
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Research Summary paper due today.
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Finish the circle maps for Walter, Ruth, Mama, and Beneatha.
Find at least two credible sources on your research topic and write down how you know that they are credible.
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If you want to bring in something for the Native American kids, here is a link to tell me: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_mIyc0R6apUFrKN6jgtNTGxCSOjybr7qvjWCSENexg8/edit?usp=sharing
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For each of the attached vocabulary words, find a definition (1), and include the part of speech(2). Then, write the sentence as it appears in the play (3). Next, write your OWN sentence including the word and showing meaning (4). Finally, find or create an image that helps you remember the word (5).
Add a reading log for your IR book.
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To Kill a Mockingbird Final Essay
Write a complete, well developed 4-paragraph essay explaining how Harper Lee uses symbolic mockingbirds to create a theme for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Guidelines: After brainstorming how Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are Mockingbirds, you must create a chart of CD and CM to support the points you will make. The chart should have at least two CDs and four CMs for each of the two characters. Then you must create topic sentences for each of the body paragraphs, and match the topic sentences with the appropriate parts of the chart. (You may write the charts and topic sentences on the same page.) You will then make sure you have a thesis statement to cover the entire essay.
You may work with a partner when creating topic sentences and charts, but each partner must have a copy. When writing the essay, each student must write independently. The final draft must be both printed out and turned in to turnitin.com.
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Chapter 27 by today!
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Read through chapter 25 by today.
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Read through chapter 22 by today.
Complete your summaries of the testimony of Sheriff Heck Tate, Mr. Ewell, Mayella, and Tom Robinson
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Read through chapter 19 by today.
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Read through chapter 15 by today.
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Read through chapter 13 by today.
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Read through part 1 by today.
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Read through chapter 8 by today.
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Read through chapter 5 by today. Expect a quiz covering plot (what happens on the first day of school, the lunch with Walter, the "surprises" in the tree) and characters (Scout, Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia, Dill, Miss Maudie).
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Finish IR book and be ready to write about it class today.
Make sure you have read chapters 1-3 of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Make sure you bring in all of your notes and information from the historical webquest (parts A, B, and C). Open-note quiz today.
Finish chapter 1 and read chapter 2.
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Definitions for class:
bias
prejudice
stereotype
racism
sexism
Research your part of the African-American History handout (attached below).
Groups A and B:
Group C:
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Final draft of essay--printed AND uploaded to turnitin.com--due today. Make sure you bring in the answers to the questions from your rough draft to attach.
(Attached below is the MLA formatting, including the Works Cited at the end with the two chapters.)
If you do not have a third IR entry, add one this weekend. (We start To Kill a Mockingbird next week, so you don't want to have too much left in your IR book to read.)
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Complete first draft of synthesis essay due today.
Prompt: Write a persuasive/synthesis essay, using multiple sources, that explains what a student should do to be successful in high school.
You should synthesize ideas from your reading to explain how a student could best set himself or herself up for success. One of your sources should be chapter three, “The Truth about Ability and Accomplishment,” from Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, and another should be the “Eleven Essential Questions” excerpt from Benedict Carey’s How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens. You should consider other credible sources if you would like to earn an A.
Checklist
Your essay should be centered around a clear thesis and have four or five paragraphs.
Your body paragraphs should be focused around clear topic sentences and include specific, cited references as evidence.
You should include an MLA-formatted Works Cited page.
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Test on all of the information from Unit 1 today!
(Alma Mater, purpose and audience, claims, rhetorical appeals, connotation and denotation, fallacies, SPHS essay writing terms.)
TO HELP YOU PREPARE:
Read the following, and write a few sentences about what each's purpose is and how the writer defends their purpose (using what kinds of claims and appeals).
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FDdPHFwm3ruBDKChSr8z6ZikpJ2l3zwPbGCB_9wRYO0/edit
Finish writing a rough thesis statement, at least two topic sentences (for your body paragraph) and at least one body paragraph for your synthesis essay.
Classwork: Using Purdue OWL page, make sure you define and give an example of:
- Slippery Slope
- Hasty Generalization
- Begging the Claim
- Either/or
- Ad hominem
- Ad populum
- Red Herring
- Straw Man
- Moral Equivalence
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Quiz on connotation, claims, and writing terms today.
Add another reading log to your notebook.
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Take notes on the attached PPT about inductive and deductive reasoning. Make sure you have definitions for the two kinds of reasoning and syllogisms, as well as explanations as to what makes arguments valid and true.
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Finish reading--and clearly annotating/taking notes--on the chapter of Mindset.
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Big quiz on all of Unit 1 (so far) today: Alma Mater, purpose and audience, appeals, and claims. Be ready to turn in your notebook.
Finish reading "Eleven Essential Questions."
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Read your IR book for at least a half an hour and create another reading log in your notebook.
Read the Dylan Hernandez article about the Dodgers and Corey Seager. Annotate it considering purpose, audience, and claims.
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Quiz on appeals and claims in class today.
Watch 2 different commercials of your choice and for each, write about the following:
What is the central purpose? Who is the audience and how do you know? Are there any claims? What appeals do they use and how are they used?
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Read your independent choice book for at least 30 minutes, then add a reading log with your reflections in your notebook.
Review your notes on claims to prepare for a quiz on Thursday.
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Read/listen to Tony Hawk's "Do What You Love" essay: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583
then read/listen to Ying Ying Yu's "A Duty to Family, Heritage, and Country" essay: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5552257
(If the links aren't working, use the word documents attached below.)
Then, answer these questions:
1. Hawk and Yu have essentially the same audience, but very different purposes. For each of them, write what you think the central purpose of the essay is.
2. They both use personal details to support their points. For each of them, select at least two personal details given. Explain how the detail helps make their point stronger.
3. Which of them do you believe has the right idea? Or are they both correct? Explain your perspective.
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Please complete the attached Inventory about yourself and bring it to class today.
Today we will have a quiz on the Alma Mater and the Purpose and Audience PPT.
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1.Read Sally Ride's "Single Room, Earth View," in the textbook and answer the questions below.
2. Read Temple Grandin's "This I Believe" essay attached below, and answer the same questions. Below you could also link to the NPR website if you would like to hear her read the essay. (You may use the same paper that you used for Sally Ride questions.)
Purpose Questions
1. What do you think is her purpose for writing this essay/text? (Start with one of the three broad purposes--to inform, to persuade, to entertain--and then explain more specifically. Remember that many texts have more than one purpose.)
2. What details from the text help you understand her purpose? Use 2-3 quotes or paraphrased details, and explain how those details connect to her purpose. This response should be several sentences of explanation.
Temple Grandin's "This I Believe: Seeing in Beautiful Pictures"
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Quiz on the SPHS Alma Mater today.
Make sure you write a bit about what you think the purpose and audience is for both the Jackie Robinson and Jack Gantos texts.
Bring in your textbooks. (I hope this will be the last day you will need to do it!)
All hail, South Pasadena,
All hail, South Pasadena,
Our Alma Mater strong.
We've come to pay you homage,
Emotion voiced in song.
We love you for your stateliness,
Your grace portraying truth.
The spirit so intangible,
Of love, of life, and youth.
Long years will never mar you,
But only add to your charm;
Our hearts will shield your memories,
And guard your name from harm.
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Fortress of inspiration, defender of ideals.
Where lasting friendship seeds are sown,
Bound fast with Tiger seals.
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Bring your textbook to class and make sure it has a cover. (If you need supplies, please see me. You may use brown paper, one that you buy, or otherwise be creative, as long as it protects your book.)