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Date
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Class work
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Homework
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2/1
What
does the author have to say about these topics? Identify the Themes:
The Teenage Brain
Love conferring Integrity
Intergeneration-al Hatreds
Innocence, virtue, and beauty can quickly and
thoughtlessly be destroyed
A disordered and Chaotic world can contribute
to disaster
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Romeo and
Juliet ACT I
Bring Text
Books, supplies, and Agenda Planner
Parallel Structure Grammar Due at
beginning of class.
PowerPoint
Presentation
Literary Terms
and Skills
Prologue
Exposition
Making Inferences (educated guess based
on textual evidence)
Blank Verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
End-stopped Lines
Run-on Lines
Imagery (Role of darkness and light)
Oxymoron
Allusion
Cultural Connections
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Complete Reading Check Questions 1-5 pp.762
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2/2
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Rising Action
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Do Making
Meanings Act I Questions 1-7 pp.
762
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2/3
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Rising
Action
Check Quiz on
Act I
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Quiz on
Literary Terms including the terms complication, foil, foreboding, suspense,
blank verse, end-stopped and run-on lines
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2/4
Vocabulary
Test #2 can be used to demonstrate competency in English 9B Skill #1
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Quiz
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Short
Constructed Response
Extending the
Text #8
pp. 762
1 page
(Spelling and
Grammar Count)
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2/5
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Choose a speech from this act and
prepare it for performance. See
Instructions pp. 763 of Text
Pay attention
to alliteration and rhyme. Read it aloud several times to feel the rhythm
created by the blank verse. Watch for end-stopped lines and run-on lines!
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Prepare to
deliver speeches on Monday and Tuesday!
Romeo and
Juliet Act II
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Week 4 English 9B 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
"I Will" Statement for a persuasive paper or dialogue in a scene
Create an “I will” statement to address what it is you will do to address each element of the prompt.
I will have read and viewed ______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________ (yellow)
I will write a/an ____________________________________________(blue)
I will address the question of similarities and differences between _______________________________________________________________________________________________.
(pink)
I will argue either for or against X___________________ ________________________(or to what extent we should have that expectation). (red)
I will use evidence from the following texts ( Books, film, media) _______________________________________________ to support my argument. (green)
I will address the counterarguments. “Others may think that_____________________________________________________________________________________________(black).
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Week 3 English 9B 2016
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:
•
Friendship
•
Loyalty
•
Weak
vs. Strong
•
Disabilities
•
Jealousy
•
Ignorance
•
Wisdom
•
Sacrifice
•
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
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Read
Introduction
and
Romeo and
Juliet Act I
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Monday, January 18, 2016
English 9B Syllabus 2016 Draft (Subject to Change)
Week
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Start date
|
Book/s and Media
|
Major Assignment/s
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Skills
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Week 2
|
18
|
Of Mice and Men
Film: Gary
Sinese, Director
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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
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Week 3
|
25
|
Of Mice and Men
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Character
Analysis Paper
|
Skill #3
Skill#4
Skill #6
Skill #11
Skill #12
Skill #13
Skill #14 -19
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Week 4
|
1
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Romeo and Juliet
Act I
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Assessment
Questionnaire
Exam on Shakespearean Terms
Analysis of
Prologue
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Skill #5
Skill#11
Skill #20
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Week 5
|
8
|
Romeo and Juliet Act I
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Comparing
Primary Source Documents
The Academy of
Complements
Characteristics
of Petrarchan Sonnets
Analysis of
Petrarchan Sonnets
1.5.104-23 Romeo and Juliet
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Skill #5
Skill#7
Skill#11
Skills # 14-19
Skill#20
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Week 6
|
15
President’s Day
|
Romeo and Juliet Act II
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Act II, Scene
II Analysis
The Balcony
Scene
Extended
metaphors/conceits
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Skill #5
Skill#7
Skill#11
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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
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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
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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
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Skill #5
Skill #23
Skill #24
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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
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Week 11
|
28th Caesar Chavez Day
|
What Makes A Good
Team Paper
Freshman
Project Presentations
|
Skills #12-22
Skill #23
Skill #24
Skill #26
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Week 12
|
4th
|
The Pearl
Novella
The Pearl Paper
|
Skill#7
|
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Week 13
|
11th
|
The Pearl
Novella
|
Skill #6
Skill#7
|
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Week 14
|
18th
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill#7
|
|
Week 15
|
25
|
Grapes of Wrath
|
Skill#6-7
|
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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
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Week 19
|
23rd
|
Portfolio
Presentations
|
Skill #27
|
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Week 20
|
Memorial Day
30th
|
Dead Week
|
Portfolio Presentations
|
Skill #27
|
Week 21
|
Final Exams
|
Final Exams
|
Skill #27-28
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