English 9 Syllabus
Semester II: Week of January 6, 2014
Fri./Mon.
(gray/maroon)
1-10/13
Introduce Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck (clip from DVD Biography)
Read Chapter One
(study guide—review terms/answer ???)
Introduce next four vocabulary words
Review describing a person (notes—example)
Homework: finish description of a person—first
Draft—next week
Tues./Wed.
1-14/15
review vocabulary
Subject/verb agreement (notes)
Holt Handbook
Continue with Of Mice and Men (chapter two)
Review chapter/terms when completed
Homework: first draft of descriptive essay
Thurs./Tuesday
1-16/21
Due: draft I—descriptive essay
Turn in essay (date stamped)
Next four vocabulary words
Chapter three Of Mice and Men—read
Homework: subject/verb agreement practice
Wednesday/Thurs..
1-22/23
Due: Subject/Verb agreement practice
Read chapter four Of Mice and Men
Review the chapter/introduce allegory
Open-note quiz—subject/verb agreement
Hand back descriptive essays—typed revision
Monday/Tuesday
2-3/4
Due: descriptive essay/Chapter 3
Review Chapter 3
Allegory—names of characters
Edit Revised Essays (descriptive essay)
Check punctuation/spelling/fragments/run-ons
Paragraph indentation/capitalization/agreement
Begin putting folders together—first draft in
Folder/turn edited revisions in (stamped)
Begin chapter 4
Homework: Finish Chapter 4
Wed./Thursday
2-5/6
Due: Chapter 4
Review Chapter 4—characters’ names & traits
Notes—subject/verb agreement (Holt Handbook)
Revise essays on googledocs—include MLA
Heading & title—turn folder in with three drafts
AND rubric for descriptive essay
Begin Chapter 5—finish for homework:
Homework: Chapter 5
Practice—subject/verb agreement
Pronoun/antecedent agreement
Monday/Tuesday
2-10/11
Due: practice/Chapter 5
review Chapter 5
Read Chapter 6—review novel
Review
Character Analysis (small groups)
Agreement practice—review—compound
sentences
Homework: review novel—TEST next class
Wednesday/Thursday
2-12/13
TEST Of Mice and Men
finish with character traits/quotes to support
Other problems in agreement (128-29 Holt
Handbook)—NOTES
Collective Nouns (129-130) Notes
Four new vocabulary words
Assign gods/goddess/ for presentations
(pairs—glogster/powerpoint)—presentations
Due Monday/Tuesday (Feb. 27/28)
Homework: thesis—three traits—Lennie OR
George
Review sheet—subject/verb agreement
Friday/Wednesday
2-14/19
Due: Thesis/Review Agreement
begin writing outline for character analysis
(template) in class
Four new vocabulary words
Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myths (737-)
Go over background—read/take notes
Watch clips from Of Mice and Men
Homework: outline for character analysis
Three support paragraphs—one for each trait
Must have two pieces of evidence—one direct
Quote/one paraphrased reference
Thursday/Fri.
2-20/21
Due:
Vocabulary REVIEW
Vocabulary Quiz
Character analysis—outline
Introduce mythology
Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myths (737-)
Go over background—read/take notes
Watch clips from Of Mice and Men
Homework: outline for character analysis
Monday/Tues.
2-24/25
Due: character analysis OUTLINE (both sides)
thesis for analysis—write
Topic sentences—identify the trait to be discussed
Quotation sandwich--review
Googledocs—thesis—first support paragraph
Must have two pieces of concrete example—one quote for
Each—commentary after quote
Subject-verb—hand back quizzes—review
Assign god/goddess for background
Homework: add second support paragraph (trait #2)
Follow outline (topic sentence/concrete example/quote)
Begin research on god/goddess
Wed./Thursday
2-26.27
Due: second support paragraph
four new vocabulary words
Review how to write the HOOK/the Conclusion (framing)
Write introduction/conclusion paragraphs—print
RESEARCH—mythology assignment
Begin NOTES on background
Homework: Complete Research on god/goddess/monster/etc.
Friday/Monday
2-28/3-3
Due: introduction/body—character analysis
conclusion to character analysis—review/write
Review pronoun-antecedent agreement
Review subject/verb agreement
Research—gods/goddesses
4 new vocabulary words
Begin background for the Odyssey (text)
Gods and Goddesses –History Channel
Homework: presentation over gods/goddesses—next week
Pick five review vocabulary words—use each in an original
sentence paying attention to its part of speech
Tuesday/Wed.
3-4/5
Due: Vocabulary Review
review how to embed quotes (quotation sandwich)
Works Cited—create in class
Mythology assignment—work with partner
Continue background material for the Odyssey (text)
Agreement Review Quiz
Homework: mythology presentation
Thursday/Fri.
3-6/7
Due: Mythology Presentation
mythology presentations
Descriptive essays (revision)—complete/print/in folder
Background for the Odyssey
Homework: work on second presentation—next
Wed.Thurs.
Vocabulary Words—five sentences (review words only)
Must have context clues
Monday/Tuesday
3-10/11
Due: vocabulary sentences
character analysis—revise
Begin background for the Odyssey
Research—mythology presentation
Homework: mythology presentations
Wednesday/Thursday—School Closed—inclement weather
Friday—Monday—finish mythology presentations
QUARTER ENDS
Beginning of 4th Quarter
Tuesday/Wed.
3-18/19
Due:
Vocabulary QUIZ
Continue with the Odyssey
Finish with presentations (if needed)
--revise descriptive essays
Review character analysis
Homework: finish section on Calypso—Lotus Eaters
pp 752-758
Be prepared to identify the Who? What? Where?
Why? and How?
Thursday/Friday
3-20/21
Due: the Odyssey—pp 752-758
review reading
Continue—read the Cyclops (760-770)
Four new vocabulary words
Homework: Descriptive Essay Revision
Quiz—the Olympians
Monday/Tuesday
3-24/25
Due: Descriptive Essay Revision
print revision (extra credit)
QUIZ—the Olympians
Character analysis—revision
Continue with the Odyssey—Circe—Cattle of the Sun God
(pp 773-786)
New Vocabulary Words
Homework: finish Part I of the Odyssey
Wed./Thursday
3-26/27
Review Part I
Check Quiz over Part I
Review Vocabulary
Edit Revisions of Character Analysis
Begin Part II of the Odyssey
Homework:
TERMS: Homeric simile/epithet/invocation/subordinate characters/conflict
(internal/external)/personification/epic/foreshadowing/oracle/idiom//irony/muses
Friday/Monday
3-28/4-7
Due: Vocabulary Sentences
finish the Odyssey Part I
Review
Self-critique (character analysis)/fix editing mistakes
Turn paper back in
If time, begin revising character analysis
Share—google docs
Clips from the Odyssey
Homework: Vocabulary Review
Tuesday/Wed.
4/8-9
Due:
Vocabulary Quiz
Begin Part II the Odyssey
Revise character anlaysis—share as google doc
Submit to turnitin.com
Homework: read the Odyssey pp 790-796
Thursday/Fri.
4-10/11
Due: pp 790-796
Post Test
Continue reading Part II
If time, go over turnitin.com reports
Homework: pp
the Odyssey
Monday/Tuesday
4-14/15
Due: the Odyssey (up to page 802)
finish Part II
REVIEW
Character analysis—if time final revision
Clean out folders
Phrases—review prepositional/participial
Final review the Odyssey
Wed./Thursday
4-`6/17
Due:
TEST—mythology & the Odyssey
Print final draft of character analysis
Organize folders
Introduce Romeo and Juliet
Homework: 890-898 Elements of Literature
Read/take notes (guided notes—handout)
Monday/Tuesday
4—21/22
Due: pp 890-898
Review—open-note review—background reading
Cast of characters—sign up for Act I
Shakespeare in the Classroom—15 minutes
Begin Act I
Vocabulary Words
Homework: vocabulary sentences (review words)
Participles/prepositional phrases (QUIZ)
Wed./Thursday
4-23/24
Vocabulary Sentences/Phrases
open-note quizzes—participial/prepositional phrases
Revise Character Analysis—put folders together
Grade sheet/first draft/checklist
Final revision—format MLA
Continue with Act I
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz
Will include ??? on Act I
Friday/Monday
4-25/28
Due:
Finish Act I—review
Begin Act II
Notes—gerund phrases
4 more vocabulary words
Homework: proofreading exercise (handout)
Phrase review (handout)
Review Notes—Romeo and Juliet
Vocabulary Quiz (78-85)
Gerund notes (on line)
Tuesday/Wed.
4-29/30
Due: gerund notes
hand back quizzes—participles
Review gerunds
Vocabulary Quiz
READ Romeo and Juliet--review
Thursday/Friday
5-1/2
Due: gerund notes
Review Gerunds
Finish Act I/begin Act II
REVIEW:gerunds/participles
Homework: 10 sentences using vocabulary words-5 sentences with participial verbal in each
5 sentences with gerund verbal in each
Monday/Tuesday
5-5/6
Due: 10 sentences
REVIEW
NOTES—appositives (Holt Handbook)
Continue reading Act II
4 new vocabulary words (86-89)
Homework:
Wednesday/Thursday
5-7/8
Due:
review phrases
Continue with Romeo and Juliet
Review Plot Complications
Literary Terms
4 new vocabulary words
Homework: phrase review (handout)
Next Vocabulary Quiz—Tuesday/Wednesday
Friday/Monday
5-9/12
Due: phrase review
review vocabulary—quiz next class
How to cite a play—NOTES
Continue reading Romeo and Juliet Act III
Select one minor character—two traits
Homework: Vocabulary Quiz
Begin notes on modifiers—on web page
Monday/Tuesday
5-19/20
Due:
Presentation—Works Cited
List of Sources for Persuasive Essay
Homework: finish notes on modifiers
Wed./Thursday
5-21/22
Due: NOTES
5 new Vocabulary Words
Read Act IV
Homework: read one of four articles on chosen side—take
Notes on details that support your view
Vocabulary Quiz
Friday/Tuesday
5-23/27
Due: notes—article one
Vocabulary Quiz
write a summary of article one
Read Act V—finish the play
Final Review
Homework: open-note quiz Romeo and Juliet
Read three more articles—notes on both
Wed./Thursday
5-28/29
Due: notes on four articles
open-note quiz Romeo and Juliet
begin working on writing argument—citing sources
Due by end of next class—three paragraphs/parenthetical
Citations in each
Friday/Monday
5-30/6-2
Finish with paragraphs/parenthetical citations/works cited
final review for semester exam