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Daily Agendas
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Student Verification Forms / Attendance
Course Introductory Prezi:
o Course Objectives
o Important Skills in 9th Lit
o What is Annolighting? (Example)
o Practice Annolighting with excerpt from Sherlock Holmes
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Distribute Syllabus – your job: Annolight syllabus tonight!
Notecards: What are 1 or 2 things I need to know about you
as a person, student, learner?
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Writer’s Workshop: What is NARRATIVE? (2-3 minute quick
write)
o Overview of mini-narrative unit this week
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Syllabus Overview – what did you annolight?
Key Element of Narrative (Today’s Lesson): VOICE
o Pizza Quickwrite
o Words to notice: Diction, Syntax, Imagery
o Read Speaker 1’s description of pizza
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Writer’s Workshop: In your own words, what are DICTION,
SYNTAX, IMAGERY? Best guess.
Read pizza description by Speaker 1 as a class
Work with a partner next to you to jot down ideas in the
chart on Inference, Diction, Syntax, Imagery, and Tone
based on Speaker 1’s Pizza Description
o Share responses as a class
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Personal Literary Narrative: Read the excerpt from Speak
silently, annolighting as you read
I’ll read it this time – make notes in the margins on things
you didn’t notice before
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Writer’s Workshop: Do you know the terms “memoir” and/ or “prose”?
Write the definitions (or your best guess) in your own words.
Read excerpt from Speak aloud (except 2nd period)– discuss observations
Personal Nonfiction Narrative (Key terms: memoir, prose)
As I read the excerpt “My Name” from The House on Mango Street,
annolight the text– pay attention to her voice as evidenced by her DICTION,
SYNTAX, and IMAGERY
Narrative Experience Brainstorm: Think of 1-2 memorable events in your
life (nothing too graphic). Make a chart and list key details of each
experience – everything you can remember
Select one experience (whatever you have the most details for)
Begin describing the event in writing, telling the story of the event
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Your task: Use a variety of sentences (long, short, complex, etc.) and SHOW me the
experience, don’t just tell me (use lots of good adjectives and strong verbs – paint a
picture with images)
Your HOMEWORK: Finish writing your narrative (1 lengthy paragraph, about
10-15 good sentences) – we’ll go to the Media Center to type tomorrow
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Writer’s Workshop: Copy this excerpt, then tell me what
“works” about it. Is it good, compelling, descriptive? Why?
o “Calpurnia was something else…She was all angles and bones; she
was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was as wide as a bed slat
and twice as hard…Our battles were epic and one-sided – Calpurnia
always won. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I
had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.”
o – from To Kill a Mockingbird, p. 6
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MLA format and USA Test Prep Info Cards
Media Center – type narrative paragraphs (print when
finished)
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Writer’s Workshop: Carefully read this sentence from Sherlock
Holmes. Make an observation about 1) Diction 2) Syntax 3)
Imagery and 4) Tone
o Watson's response to Holmes's reasoning is like that of a man who's
just had a magician's trick explained to him: it all seems so clear after
an explanation… though otherwise you'd never be able to guess how it's
done. Conan Doyle repeats this formula many times to remind the
reader that Holmes is always many steps ahead of everyone around
him.
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If you need to buy a vocab book, please bring $13 tomorrow or
Wednesday at the latest
Sherlock Holmes article analysis: “The Logical Sherlock of our
Time”
o Read the article together as a class, annolighting as we read
o When we finish, write a short summary paragraph (5 sentences or so)
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Bring narrative paragraph, Sherlock Holmes book, and vocab $ or
vocab book tomorrow!
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Writer’s Workshop:
o P. 1 Share article summaries from yesterday/ steps to an effective
summary
• http://www.clarion.edu/70739.pdf
o P. 2 What is involved in the exposition of a story? What are
different types of Point of View?
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Sell Vocab Books / Turn in Narrative Paragraphs
Begin reading “The Speckled Band” (Story VIII)
Organizer: Expo and POV
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Writer’s Workshop:
What are clues in stories to help us figure out who a
character is? What types of characters exist in literature?
What else to you know about characterization?
Take a look at this passage from “The Speckled Band” –
what do you notice? What is the EFFECT of the passage?
What is your reaction? How do you think Conan Doyle
achieves this?
o “I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into
your pocket. An Eley’s No. 2 is an excellent argument with
gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a
toothbrush are, I think, all that we need.”
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Vocab Book Preview and 1st Assignment (due next Wednesday/
Quiz)
Continue reading “The Speckled Band” as a class through the
end of the exposition
Pause and work with a partner for 10 minutes to complete your
exposition chart (complete with textual evidence)
Continue reading the story, examining clues to help us determine
the unique qualities of the characters
Jared Crawford
Mrs. Minich
9th Lit/ Comp 1st Period
13 August 2014
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Writer’s Workshop: Take a look at this word from Unit 1 in our
vocab books: (we’ll read the intro story together in a minute)
o RELINQUISH: To let go; give up; surrender
o Read the original sentence on page 16 of your book, then write your
own original COMPOUND sentence using the word AND using a COLON
– correctly 
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Reminders: Do you need to buy a vocab book? MLA heading on
all assignment (yellow turkeys can’t dance), Land of no-name
papers
Due Dates: Vocab unit 1 assignments (5 of them) on pages 17-21
in voc. book and QUIZ – Thursday, August 21
Take 7 minutes with a partner to complete the exposition chart
for “The Speckled Band”
Continue reading the story, focusing on character development