Yearbook -- Layout Rubric and addition

Hi all,

I love how your book is really coming together and taking life.  I love the decisions we are making together to make an awesome and unique addition to our yearbook family.

The rubric that we made in class together today is both up on the blog and attached here.  Yes, because we just made a creative decision, those of you with academic pages will need to update the question mods and headines (change them to the headline pop style please) on the academic pages.  I need to submit those pages on Monday, so if those fixes we spoke about in class today are fixed by Friday, I'll be a happy adviser.  

Happy Thursday.  We're so close to submitting our first pages!  Exciting and scary!

9th Lit -- Sonnet Troubles

Good morning,

First of all I want to exclaim how much so many of you are POETS!  Your poems were amazing!

Before you freak out or think on not talking about you because your grade, please hear me out.  I am--all of your poems are awesome.

We apparently had some trouble following the directions and rubric--therefore a lot of you didn't earn credit for your sonnet.  So, I'm giving you this opportunity:

1. Log in to turnitin.com and look at your sonnet assignment--click on Grade Mark to see your rubric and how you scored on each criteria.
2. Go back to your google doc and edit your original assignment.  Make sure you are looking at the rubric and the example.
3. Make sure you label the 4 criteria at the bottom of your poem.  This is what you earn credit for!  Can you accurately use and identify rhyme scheme, 2 instances of figurative language, and 1 sound device?  Yes, you need to write an original poem, but the rubric is how well you can use what we've learned to create a poem.  Most of you put your devices in there, just didn't label them.  Prove you knew what you were doing and didn't do it by accident!
4. Resubmit your sonnet on turnitin.com under the assignment called Revision 1.  If you try to submit it under the original assignment, you won't be able to.
5. The new deadline is this Friday by 11:59pm.

If you have any questions, please email me!

PSAT Opportunity -- 9th Lit

From County Office:

Good Morning,

The College Board launched “Daily Practice for the New SAT” – a free app that allow students to “scan and score” a paper PSAT/NMSQT or SAT practice test with their mobile device and receive instant score feedback and connect to practice resources. There is a 1 minute video on their site that showcases this new PSAT/ SAT practice app. It looks really cool!  

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/practice/daily-practice-app

9th Lit Online Textbook

Ladies and Gentlemen,

From now on, if we use a text found in the textbook, you'll need to use the online textbook instead of a link to the individual texts on my blog.  Click here for the link to the online textbook.  Your login is ccsdyournumber (not the words, actually your number).  Your password is ccsd2016.

Hi everyone,

A student asked for this and I decided to post it.  If you'd like to take a free personality test to better understand your thinking and the way your personality works, click here for the free Myres Briggs test.

Poetry Book Contest

Click here for an awesome and creative poetry contest.

Week 9 -- 9th Lit

We are half way there!

This week we're going to do a brief unit on Poetry.  Students will be given a poetry packet in class on Friday.  We'll probably finish this on Wednesday, have a in-depth look "The Raven" on Thursday, assign a presentation assignment on Friday, present on Monday, and test on Tuesday.

After that, Romeo and Juliet and the Odyssey. We'll finish up the year with a novel study.

Happy Thursday!