English 9 Honors

SEPTEMBER 19 - 23 1ST NINE WEEKS, WEEK 6 "Mockingbirds don't Weekly Agenda do one thing except make music for us Monday: MAP testing. While I am not here, I still expect you to your best! We will be reviewing the data, your RIT score, and determining areas of to enjoy.” strengths and growth in the near future.

Tuesday: Vocabulary quiz. Close reading of chapter 2 & 3. Informational article and Background Stations. Finish Excerpt assignment. Grammar: Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs Upcoming:  Pep Rally on Friday! Wednesday: Reading Quiz over chapters 1-3 Characterization. Chapter  Homecoming Game on Sept. questions due. Grammar: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Verbs. Classic Trials 23 Thursday: Analyzing setting and characterization. “Say Mean Matter” activity.  Field Trip Sept. 28th. Please Chapter questions due. MLA format and using in-text citations. have your money and Prepositions and Conjunctions. Atticus’ Advice Activity permission slips turned in no later than Wednesday. Friday: Reading Quiz over chapters 4-6 Chapter questions due. Deconstruct writing prompts and developing a thesis statement. Formal Formative assessment on Parts of Speech. Analyzing Symbols Activity

Vocabulary There are a couple of resources I want you to be aware: one, is called Grammarly. To log in, go to www.grammarly.com My user name is 1. Anastrophe [email protected] and my 2. Indirect Characterization password is English2016. This is a paper- 3. Direct Characterization editing site. Please use it for your blogs and 4. Static Character 5. Dynamic Character essays in the future. You can also use it for 6. Epanalepsis any other class that requires writing. While 7. Epithet this site provides instant feedback in terms of 8. Foil Character grammar, it will not assess the logic in your 9. Anthropomorphism thinking or the quality of your ideas and/or 10. Coming-of-age analysis. The other is called Canvas. It is an online course where I have uploaded resources. We Reading Schedule will use this more Monday: Chapter 2 in stations and Tuesday: Chapter 3 independent work. Wednesday: Chapter 4 Thursday: Chapter 5 Friday: Chapter 6

NO BLOG THIS WEEK: Take this time to catch up. Last week’s blog wasn’t posted until Saturday. Blog 7 due Sept. 25.