Week 9 English 9B

Day	Class work	Homework
Monday Driving Questions: How does Strategic Planning empower Odysseus?  How does temptation or recklessness distract Odysseus from his journey?	Poetry Review   Read and Discuss supplementary poems in text.  Part II exam postponed due to upcoming ELA assessment Preparation and NMA project requirements!	Review your assigned poem and submit a summary of the poem. Essay Template is posted in Box. Brainstorm Essay Essay Prompt: A work of Literature becomes important to us when we feel that it relates to our lives. In a brief essay, discuss at least three ways in which the Odyssey relates to life today. You might consider what it says about these values: ·      Courtesy and respect for all groups of people ·      Courage, trust, and discipline ·      Loyalty to family and community ·      Obedience to law-human or divine
Tuesday	Start Essay Template	Complete Essay Template
Wednesday	Peer review Essay Template	Type and submit to turnitin.com by 8am
Thursday Vocabulary Candor Disdainful Adorn Revelry Glowered Avails Lavished Aloof Pliant Tremulous Versatile Wily Enduring Magaron Epithet Homeric Epithet	Grade Window opens for 10- week report card. Begin Review of Dust Bowl era in preparation for ELA Performance Assessment exam. Attributions: You need to introduce a Quote.  For example: The author writes, “…”. The author claimed… The author believes,” …” You can also conclude you quote with the attribution. Doc C claimed, “ Studying helps students retain information.” or “Studying helps students retain information”, claimed Doc C.	Test Prep  “ Evidence-based reading and writing… (tests will use as its source materials pieces of writing — from science articles to historical documents to literature excerpts — which research suggests are important for educated Americans to know and understand deeply. “The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers,” …“have managed to inspire an enduring great conversation about freedom, justice, human dignity in this country and the world” — therefore (tests) will contain a passage from either a founding document or from a text (like Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address) that is part of the “great global conversation” the founding documents inspired…” New York Times 3/9/14
Friday	Review Say, Mean, Matter	Review attributions (How to introduce a quotation).