English 9 Honors Syllabus 2012-13
Week of August 20
Tuesday
8-21
Introduction/Welcome
review information/homework policy
Problem of the Day POD
Parts of speech--diagnostic
Review novel—group work (through part six)
Homework: journal entries due next class
Thursday
8-23
DUE: Part One Review The Book Thief
Novel—groups--presentations
Review: Nouns/Pronouns
Review Point of View (literature book) NOTES
Homework: quiz over Prologue—Part Six
Monday
8-27
DUE: Review: The Book Thief (Prologue—Part 6)
nouns/pronouns—finish notes
POD
Part Seven—Epilogue—group work
Homework: review last half of novel
Wed.
8-29
The Book Thief—continue group review
QUIZ I
Review literary terms:
metaphor/personification/irony/point of
view/symbolism/cliffhanger/flashback/forward/allegory/a
llusion/extended metaphor
NOTES—adjectives
Homework: quiz—second half of novel next Wednesday
Friday
8-31
The Book Thief: essay (in-class)
turnitin.com accounts—essay assignment
Adjectives—review
Notes—adverbs
Themes in The Book Thief
Literary Element: Theme—review
Homework: select one theme and discuss how it is
developed in
the novel/three—five
paragraphs—due next Friday
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Wednesday
9-5
Group Presentations The Book Thief
REVIEW THE NOVEL (jeopardy review)
Essay—review introduction—hook/thesis
Nouns/Pronouns—quick check
Homework: TEST II The Book Thief
Friday
9-7
TEST The Book Thief
Essay—review parts of an essay
Textual Support-- Quote Sandwich
Homework: first draft of essay (typed)
Tuesday
9-11
Due: TEST II The Book Thief
Outline—theme analysis (go over example)
Review Proofreading (smartboard practice)
Adjectives/adverbs (review)—vivid verbs
Homework: typed draft of essay
Thursday
9-13
Due: Typed Theme Analysis
critique & proofread
Conformity—read “Harrison Bergeron” in class (lit. text)
Monday
9-17
Review—“Harrison Bergeron”
Essays—first draft due (typed)—turn in
Handicapper General Assignment
Introduce Lord of the Flies
Read Chapter One in class
Diagnostic Preview—finish/go over
Homework: Parts of Speech Review—Friday quiz
Read Chapter Two of Lord of the Flies
Wednesday
9-19
Due: Chapter Two
Review first two chapters
Historic Connections
Parts of Speech Review
Homework: Lord of the Flies
Chapters Three and Four—next Tuesday
Parts of Speech—open-note quiz
Friday
9-21
Open-note Quiz Parts of Speech
-Lord of the Flies—review Chapter One
Read like a Professional
Homework : Chapter Two LoF
Revise Essays
Tuesday
9-25
Review Parts of Speech (quiz)
review Chapter 2 LoF
Practice Proofreading
Proofread Essays—final draft due next Monday
Homework Chapters 3 & 4 LoF
Thursday
9-27
Due: Chapters 3 & 4
Annotations—Group
Parts of a Sentence—subject complements
Read “Initiation” Elements of Literature
Homework: Chapter 5 (Monday)
Chapters 6 & 7 (Wednesday)
Chapter 8 (Friday)
Final Draft Essay—due Monday, October 1, 2012
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Monday
10-01
Due: Chapter Three/Final Draft
Parts of Speech Test II
“Initiation” Elements of Literature
Review Chapter Three
Homework: Read Chapter 4 (quiz)
Wednesday
10-03
Due: Chapter Four (LoF)
diagnostic test—parts of a sentence
Review first four chapters of novel
Quiz
Create Groups for Friday’s assignment
Homework: read chapter five
Friday
10-05
Due: Chapter Five—group annotation/study guide
How to write a Brief (handout)
Computers—research brief topic—take notes
Homework: chapters six and seven
Vocabulary review quiz
Tuesday
10-09
Due: chapters one-four review Lord of the Flies
group annotations
Homework: chapters five and six
Thursday
10-11
Subject Complements--review
chapters five and six—review/annotate
Briefs—work on in class
Homework: chapters seven & eight—Monday
Chapters nine & ten—Wednesday
Friday—finish the book in class
Grammar NOTES—parts of a sentence: subject/verb/subject complements
Open-note quiz--MONDAY
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Monday
10-15
Due: chapters seven and eight
Parts of a Sentence Quiz (open note)
Review Chapters seven & eight
Briefs—get started
Homework: Chapters nine and ten
Wednesday
10-17
Due: Lord of the Flies
Chapters nine and ten—review
NOTES—direct/indirect objects/transitive verbs
Annotate
Briefs—finish
Homework: finish briefs/notes—direct objects
Friday
10-19
Briefs—due
finish the novel in class—discuss
Present briefs
Motifs
Homework: open-note quiz—direct/indirect objects
Themes in Lord of the Flies—three-four ideas
Final TEST—next Thursday (includes vocabulary)
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Tuesday
10-23
Due: Chapter Eleven--annotated
briefs—will be putting information in google docs
Find five to six pictures (images) to match information
(will go on slides)
Finish reading (Chapter 12)
Review for test (jeopardy review)
Watch Great Books series
Homework: TEST
Turnitin.com discussion board
Thursday
10-25
TEST Lord of the Flies (NOVEL ONLY)
finish watch Great Books
Review discussion board comments
Five paragraph essay (review)
Homework: notes on novel—allow a thesis to emerge
From your notes
Group Project—briefs—information/images
Googledocs—due next Friday
Vocabulary Test—next Wednesday
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NOTES—PHRASES
Monday
10-29
Due: notes—workable topic
developing a “working thesis”
Find a passage that interests you/copy/annotate heavily
Good thesis (nonobvious/worthwhile, interesting
contribution to the “conversation”)
Quick-Writing
Getting feedback from peer group
Vocabulary—REVIEW
Homework: vocabulary quiz
Wednesday
10-31
Due: Vocabulary Quiz
finish watch Classic Books Series (Lord of the Flies)
Handout—elements of fiction
Workable topic to workable thesis (notes)
Throwaway draft of essay due Friday (quick-writing
draft)
Friday
11-02
Due: Throwaway draft
peer feedback—take notes
Remember, make an interesting contribution to the
conversation
Begin “The Most Dangerous Game”
Homework: finish “The Most Dangerous Game”
Review vocabulary from story
Quick-writing is easy:
 Write for a limited time period (fifteen minutes) and stop
 Write quickly and continuously
 Censor nothing; permit yourself to write down everything—brilliant,
mediocre, or “dumb”—that occurs to you
 Do not worry about making grammar, spelling, punctuation, or other
sentence-level errors; simply push forward
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Tuesday
11-06
Due: “The Most Dangerous Game”
Short Story Review/PLOT
Review quotation sandwich
From Throwaway draft to Rough Draft
Cut & paste from throwaway draft
Review Gerunds
Read “The Interlopers”
Terms: omniscient narrator/irony
Homework: Rough Draft—literary analysis—Lord of
the Flies—check turnitin.com
Monday
11-12
Due: Rough Draft of Literary Analysis
Turn in essays (three questions)
Self-check—quotation sandwich
Gerunds—review quiz
Unreliable narrator (210) “The Cask of Amontillado”
Read in class (finish for homework)
Review Vocabulary Words
Infinitive/Appositive—REVIEW
Wednesday
11-14
Due: “The Cask of Amontillado”
Review story
Meet in Groups
Synthesizing Sources
Reminder: turnitin.com
Homework: read short story “Initiation” Elements of
Literature
Quiz--PHRASES
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Friday
11-16
Tuesday
11-20
Due: “Initiation”
Phrase Quiz (review—open-note)
Review story—literary elements (group assignment)
Introduce the Odyssey—background notes
Hand back essays (revision next Tuesday)
Work on mythology projects
Homework: work on revisions/mythology assignment
DUE: Revision—review/proofread
Odyssey Background Notes
Work in groups on mythology projects
Review Mythology Notes
Phrase Quiz
Tuesday
11-27
Due: Revision—Essay
begin reading the Odyssey (vocabulary/terms—handout)
Hand back phrase quizzes
Begin notes on Clauses (homework)
Group Work—mythology
Homework—mythology project
Thursday
11-29
Continue reading Part I of the Odyssey
Clauses—review Adjective Clauses
Review Syntax
Group Work—mythology
Homework: continue clause notes
Work on mythology project—presentations
Work on first draft of essay (research)
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Tuesday
12-04
Due:
Adjective Clauses—Review
Syntax
The Odyssey—continue
Homework: mythology projects –due next Monday
Thursday
12-06
Due: Clause--NOTES
the Odyssey
Clauses—Open-note Quiz
Monday
12-10
Due: mythology projects
the Odyssey
Subordinate Clauses
Homework: mythology essay
Skits—Friday; Essay—next Tuesday
Wednesday
12-12
Due: the Odyssey—PART I
Quick Write (myth essay)
finish mythology presentations
Continue reading the Odyssey
Take-home Review (handout)
Friday
12-14
finish the Odyssey
groups—plan skits
Review for Exam
Planning the Essay (notes/lecture)
Homework: SKITS/Begin Exam Review