Syllabus English 9 2012-13
English 9 Dr.
Cohen Room
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Hollywood High School SLC:
New Media/CAA
Asterisked (*) text is credited to the following sources:
Elements of Literature, 4th
Course (Holt-Rinehart-Winston, Publishers)
Holt Literature and Language
Arts
Holt Perspectives in
Multicultural Literature (Purple Workbook)
Vocabulary Workshop Levels “C
and D ”
A Night to Remember by Walter
Lord
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott
Card
Key
to Abbreviations:
EL Elements
of Literature (Home)
A Holt
Lit and Language ARTS Anthology
ML Multicultural
Literacy Workbook
Scope and Sequence: Semester Overview
(Subject to Change)
Aug. 14-17 Authors Covered: Bob Herbert and Robert Cooke
Rising Tides and An Arctic Floe of Climate
Questions
Academic
Vocabulary Pp. 3
PROJ: Register for Engrade.com and register
for Turnitin.com
PROJ: Cornell Notes on All Readings
Aug. 20-24 Authors
Covered: Bob Herbert and Robert
Cooke
Rising Tides and An Arctic Floe of Climate
Questions
PROJ:
Highlight and Annotate assigned texts
PROJ: 5- paragraph essay Evaluation of
Credibility of an Author
Aug. 27-31 Authors
Covered: Oliver Stone and Kirk Douglass
Where I find My Heroes and Heroes with Solid
Feet
PROJ:
5-paragraph essay Evaluating an
Authors argument
Exam
on Academic Vocabulary PP. 3-115
Library Orientation
Sept.
3-7 Author Covered: Jackie Robinson and
Larry Schwartz
Free Minds and Hearts at Work, and Jackie
Changed the Face of Sports
PROJ: Primary and Secondary Sources
Proj:
Character Analysis Table using STEAL (say, thinks, effects, actions, looks)
Sept.10-14– Author
Covered: Hank Aaron
Jackie
Robison
PROJ:
5 paragraph Character Analysis of
Jackie Robinson
Sept.17- 21 Author
Covered: Martin Luther King,
Dudley Randall and Barack Obama
I Have A Dream, Ballad of Birmingham
PROJ: Allusion Chart
Proj: Evaluate the credibility of a
political speech
Sept.24-28 Author Covered: Gary Soto
The
Grandfather
PROJ: Symbolism Chart
PROJ. Evaluate argument that avocado tree is
a symbol of the grandfather.
Oct. 1-5 __ Author
Covered: Cesar Chavez Sor Juana Ines
de la Cruz, Chadis, Saftner
Caesar Chavez Lives, World, in hounding me
Proj: Analyze political cartoons
PROJ:
Persuasive Letter
Oct. 8-12 Authors
Covered: African Proverbs
PROJ:
Persuasive Speech
Oct. 15- 19 Authors
Covered: Walter Lord A Night To Remember
PROJ:
Complete Multiple Points of View Chart
Lenses of poverty, degrees of wealth, and gender aboard the
Titanic.
Oct.22- -26 Authors
Covered: Walter Lord A Night To Remember
PROJ:
800 Word Essay on Multiple Points of View
Oct. 29 –Nov.2 Authors Covered: Richard Rodriguez, Rennecike,
Smithsonian Institution
PROJ:
Academy Vocabulary for Exposition
PROJ: Synthesizing Sources Table
Nov. 5– Nov.9 Authors
Covered: Adreinne Su
Codes of Conduct
PROJ: Denotation and Connotation and Extended Metaphors Elements of
Style Chart
Proj:
Analyze Presidential Election and Victory Speeches
Nov. 12-Nov. 16 Authors
Covered: Legget, Brinnin, Derek
Kirk Kim
Hurdles
PROJ: 5-paragraph essay on Irony in a cartoon
Nov.19-23 Authors
Covered: John Lewis
Prologue to Walking with the Wind
PROJ:
Allegory Project
Nov. 26-30 Authors
Covered: Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
PROJ: 1500 Word Enders Game Essay
Dec. 3-7 Authors
Covered: Orson Scott Card Enders Game
PROJ:
1500 Word Essay
December 10-14 Authors Covered: Orson Scott Card Enders
Game
PROJ:
Final Exam
Useful Web Sites:
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Modern Language Association citation formatting
Oxford English
Dictionary
Vocabulary for the collegebound student
Teacher Web Log
http://www.hollywoodhighschool.net
Weekly blog postings of assignments
Turn It In
Online originality reports for composition
College Board Online
http://www.collegeboard.org/ap
Preparation for post-secondary education endeavors
Homework and Late Work
Policy
Organization and preparedness are skills
you will need regardless of your post-secondary plans.
Homework will be writing compositions, studying for
tests, or reading. DO ALL OF IT.
· Major assignments drop by one
full grade EACH DAY they are late.
· Some work can NOT be made up,
especially the oral assignments.
· See me before 7:30 or during Lunch about make-up work, not right as the
class is about to begin.
· Students who are absent from class and
provide an acceptable excuse may make up tests by appointment with the teacher.
· If students miss a class for
sports or field trip activities, they are required to submit the assigned
work the day it is due, either before school or during the school day;
excuses such as “I was not in class” are not acceptable.
· End-of-semester deadline is the first day of stop week; no work
will be accepted after that date. It is
in the students’ best interest to meet deadlines and submit work of the highest
quality by due dates.
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