August/September 2014 Calendar
Mrs. Huynh-Duc’s 9th grade CP English
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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26
27
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!
HW: Return the class syllabus
signed tomorrow.
1
LABOR DAY- NO SCHOOL!
8
PARTS OF SPEECH QUIZ
“Walk the Schedule” Tonight
Class: Vocabulary List 1; Parts of
Speech Quiz; textbook distribution
HW: Read “The Sniper” page 211
in textbook for tomorrow
15
Class: Read “The Necklace” and
Vocab list 2
Class: Sleeping Freshmen Never
Lie Review
Class: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Review
Class: Sleeping Freshmen Never
Lie Review
Class: Spelling Quiz; final review for
summer reading test
HW: Website Scavenger Hunt
(handout) due tomorrow.
HW: Review for Summer Reading
test. Organized binders are due next
Tuesday.
HW: Review for Summer Reading
test. Organized Binders are due next
Tuesday.
3
4
HW: Be prepared for Tuesday’s
summer reading test! Also, be sure to
bring your organized binder to class
for a notebook check on Tuesday.
5
2
SUMMER READING TEST
Class: Summer Reading test
Class: Parts of Speech review; read a
short story in class
Class: Go over the endings to
yesterday’s story; Parts of Speech
review; Vocab Regime
HW: “How well do you know your
parts of speech?” handout due
tomorrow
9
HW: Parts of Speech practice sheet
Class: Introduction to Narrative
Writing; discuss “The Sniper”
Class: Read “The Most Dangerous
Game” in class and discuss
Class: “The Most Dangerous Game”
discussion, continued
HW: Study vocabulary list #1 for
Friday’s quiz
HW: Study vocabulary list #1 for
tomorrow’s quiz
HW: Study vocabulary list #1 for
Friday’s quiz
16
Class: Introduce narrative writing
project; begin discussing “Cask of
Amontillado”
HW: None
10
17
Early Release Day
Class: Finish reading/discussing
“Cask of Amontillado”
HW: Preposition and Drinks
handout
11
18
Class: Read “The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty” in class; discuss
internal conflict and quotation marks
HW: Work on your narrative project
22
Class: Vocabulary List #3;
“Walter Mitty” cartoon activity
HW: Finish “Walter Mitty”
cartoon activity if not done so in
class
HW: Brainstorm ideas for your
narrative project
23
HW: Study vocabulary list 2
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25
Class: Collect cartoons; Read
“Thank You, Ma’m” in class and
discuss indirect characterization
Class: Computer lab for narrative
project
Class: Computer lab for narrative
project
HW: Be prepared to work on
narrative project in class tomorrow
HW: Work on narrative project
HW: Study vocabulary list 3 for
tomorrow
Check out www.englishisamazing.com for handouts and complete texts.
Class: Parts of speech final review
HW: Notecards for Vocab List 1 due
Monday. Review Parts of Speech for
a quiz on Monday.
12
Vocabulary Quiz #1
Class: Finish discussing “The Most
Dangerous Game,” Vocab Quiz #1
HW: Notecards for Vocabulary List
2 due Monday
19
Vocabulary Quiz #2
Class: quotation mark practice;
Bluff; Vocab quiz
HW: Notecards for List 3 due
Monday
26
Vocabulary Quiz #3
Class: Vocabulary quiz; computer
lab for narrative project
HW: Vocabulary list #4 for Monday.