Final Deadlines

The final day for your extra credit essays is tomorrow.

Your class has a last major assignment due tomorrow.

American Lit:  Your Reading Folders are due!  Chapters 1-10!  Click here for your checklist.

9th Grade Lit:  Your Epic Poems are due!  Click here for the requirements!  Click here for the story map, and here for the 3 column chart.

Week 16

This week 9th Grade Lit has been continuing through The Odyssey in preparation for their Epic Poem which will be due next week.  They will also have a comic book activity for the end of this week.

Click here for today's in-class assignment, the character poster.

American Lit has been continuing through Their Eyes Were Watching God. 

Click here for Chapter's 1-6 PowerPoint that includes the In-Class Responses, as well as the Reading Focuses for the chapters. 

Final Vocabulary Quiz is this Friday!  The EOCT is next Monday and Tuesday!  Are you ready?

Week 15--Preparing for the end.

9th Grade Lit have begun their final Unit:  The Odyssey.  Click here for the background handout.  Click here for the Note Template.  The Final Exam will be over The Odyssey.

American Lit have begun their final Unit:  Their Eyese Were Watching God.  Click here for the Reading Folder Packet.  The Final Exam will be over The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Your last Reading Log is due on Monday.

The EOCT is Monday and Tuesday December 12th and 13th.  Please try your best to be present those 2 days. 

As always, please check the calendar for upcoming assignments and deadlines.

The Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge

American Lit, click here if you've misplaced your handout.

9th Grade Poetry Test on Monday

As a reminder, the 9th Grade Poetry Test will be a similar test to the Benchmark and the EOCT.  It will not be about specific poems, but about how to analyze poetry.

You should have notes for The Raven, The Road Not Taken, Casey at the Bat, Dream Deferred, Dreams, Macavity, 3 Haiku, and the Dead Poets Society.  You should also have your Key Vocabulary Sheet.

Have a great weekend!

Week 8

Hello everybody!

This week is a big week because this week we are beginning our research projects.  There are 3 MAJOR things you need to know about this week.

1. Your projects
9th Grade find your research project instructions/rubric/checklist here.  You've been given one in class, but if you need another copy, then you can print it from here.

American Lit find your research project instructions/rubric/checklist here.  You've been given one in class, but if you need another copy, then you can print it from here.

2.  Your Study Groups

Click here to find a list of all of the Research Groups, and who everyone is researching.  Scroll down to reach your class.
3. Vocabulary
Since we're not going to be in the room all that much this week, your vocabualry quiz will be a little different this week.

On Friday, you must turn in 20 unique, original sentences, each using one of the Unit 7 vocaublary words (underline it!), in order.  These must be your own sentences (not from the book, or the internet, or your friend), and they must correctly use the vocabulary word.  You may use more than one word in one sentence, but I'll only be grading the word that matches the number.

4.  The Gameplan
Monday--Meet in class, move to the library
Tuesday--Meet in class, move to the library 
Wednesday--Project Presentations or Test (depending on your class)
Thursday--Project Presentations or Literature
Friday--Meet in Writing Lab to work on Research (your Final drafts are due, but we won't be taking time in class to work on them!)

9th Grade Poetry Presentation

Hello 9th Graders!

Your poetry assignment can be found here!

It is due on Wednesday, October 5th In Class!

You can find your Key Vocabulary for Poetry handout here.

After the "Read More" you can watch examples of the video component to Option 1 and Option 2