Date
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Class work
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Homework
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1/25
What
does the author have to say about these topics? Identify the Themes:
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Friendship
•
Loyalty
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Weak
vs. Strong
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Disabilities
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Jealousy
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Ignorance
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Wisdom
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Sacrifice
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Disappoint-ment
•
Racism
•
Frustration
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·
Bring your novel,
journal, and a mini-stapler to class!
·
I will statements due
at beginning of class for either
o 5-paragraph Compare and contrast opening scene in play with
book (until arrival at ranch)
o If
you need help reviewing
how to write a compare and contrast
essay go to
This resource provides a
step-by-step guide to compare and contrast papers.
Next you can use the following
online guide to actually write and save your paper. Remember you will have to
write more than 1 paragraph in the boxes provided and DO NOT FORGET TO Save.
USE YOUR LAUSD email to protect your privacy!
or
o Write a 2-page dialogue between two students discussing the
differences in the way Curley's wife is represented/portrayed in the book and
in the film.
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Roman Numeral Outline
Or Storyboard
(Handout in Of Mice and Men Box).
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1/26
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Return Of Mice
and Men to Library
Pick up Novels
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Draft Paper or
Dialogue
Due at
beginning of class.
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1/27
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Begin Critical Analysis of Character Paper
Read Aloud and
Annotate Text
Scarseth, Thomas. "A
Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men." Censored Books: Critical
Viewpoints. Eds. Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Burress, and John M. Kean.
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1993. 388-94.
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Take Cornell
Notes on Character Analysis Paper
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1/28
Vocabulary
Test #2 can be used to demonstrate competency in English 9B Skill #1
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With a partner
Create A Roman Numeral Outline of your Critical Analysis
Test
on Literary and Cinema Terms Test #2 is Friday
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Refine your
outline and bring to class for timed essay practice
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1/29
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Timed Essay Practice Critical Analysis
Paper
Assign Roles
Romeo and Juliet
|
Read
Introduction
and
Romeo and
Juliet Act I
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Week 3 English 9B 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
English 9B Syllabus 2016 Draft (Subject to Change)
Week
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Start date
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Book/s and Media
|
Major Assignment/s
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Skills
|
Week 2
|
18
|
Of Mice and Men
Film: Gary
Sinese, Director
|
Compare and
Contrast Book and Film Paper or
Dialogue on
Gender
Literary Terms
Exam
|
Skills #1
Skill #2
Skill #3
Skill #8
Skill #10
Skill #11
|
Week 3
|
25
|
Of Mice and Men
|
Character
Analysis Paper
|
Skill #3
Skill#4
Skill #6
Skill #11
Skill #12
Skill #13
Skill #14 -19
|
Week 4
|
1
|
Romeo and Juliet
Act I
|
Assessment
Questionnaire
Exam on Shakespearean Terms
Analysis of
Prologue
|
Skill #5
Skill#11
Skill #20
|
Week 5
|
8
|
Romeo and Juliet Act I
|
Comparing
Primary Source Documents
The Academy of
Complements
Characteristics
of Petrarchan Sonnets
Analysis of
Petrarchan Sonnets
1.5.104-23 Romeo and Juliet
|
Skill #5
Skill#7
Skill#11
Skills # 14-19
Skill#20
|
Week 6
|
15
President’s Day
|
Romeo and Juliet Act II
|
Act II, Scene
II Analysis
The Balcony
Scene
Extended
metaphors/conceits
|
Skill #5
Skill#7
Skill#11
|
Week 7
|
22
|
Romeo and Juliet
Act III
|
Tragic Love
Dialogue
Fight Scene
Understanding
Character ( STEAL)
Focus on
Mercutio
Ambiguity in
death of Mercutio
Family
arguments
Love or abuse?
Gender and
marriage
|
Skill #5
Skill#7
Skill#11
|
Week 8
|
29
|
Romeo and Juliet
Act IV
Freshman Project begins
|
Types of Love
In Romeo and Juliet
The best laid
plans of mice and men…
|
Skill #5
Skill #25
|
Week 9
|
7th
|
Romeo and Juliet
Act V
|
Climax of the
Play
Teenagers
setting the world straight
Relate types of
love to everyday life.
Connection to
the Teenage Brain
|
Skill #5
Skill #23
Skill #24
|
Week 10
|
14th
|
Romeo and Juliet Film Festival
Baz Luhrmann,
Director
Zeffirelli,
Director
Gift of The Magi
Short Story
Gift of the Magi
Paper
The Road Not Taken
|
Compare and
Contrast Films and/or Play with film
Irony and
Ambiguity
|
Skill#7
Skill #23
Skill #24
Skills #12-22
|
Week 11
|
28th Caesar Chavez Day
|
What Makes A Good
Team Paper
Freshman
Project Presentations
|
Skills #12-22
Skill #23
Skill #24
Skill #26
|
|
Week 12
|
4th
|
The Pearl
Novella
The Pearl Paper
|
Skill#7
|
|
Week 13
|
11th
|
The Pearl
Novella
|
Skill #6
Skill#7
|
|
Week 14
|
18th
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill#7
|
|
Week 15
|
25
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill#6-7
|
|
Week 16
|
2nd
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill#6-7
|
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Week 17
|
9th
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill #6-7
|
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Week 18
|
16
|
Grapes of Wrath
Film
|
Compare and
Contrast Film and Book
|
Skills # 12-22
|
Week 19
|
23rd
|
Portfolio
Presentations
|
Skill #27
|
|
Week 20
|
Memorial Day
30th
|
Dead Week
|
Portfolio Presentations
|
Skill #27
|
Week 21
|
Final Exams
|
Final Exams
|
Skill #27-28
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