English 9 (Period 6) Assignments

Study guide due June 7th, 2016

Friendly Reminder: Final Exam Study Guide Due Tomorrow, June 7th, during class; No Exceptions!

Parents and Students:

 

June 3, 2016, will be the last day I will accept late work.  That is the week before finals.  No work will be accepted after that point.  Especially, if you are missing work at this time, it is imperative you get it to me as soon as possible.  However, make sure you get all late or missing assignments in by June 3.

 

Thank you,

 

Mr. Rivera

• Final Exam Study Guide will be distributed tomorrow, 5/27/16
• Due Date/June 3^rd during class

Materials Needed for Next Week:

• Pens
• Paper
• Novel and Textbook
• Study Guide (Study Guide will be posted online over the weekend)

Consequences: Academic Detention that day

Priorities:

• Finish missing work
• Complete Study Guide by Thursday Night, June 2^nd to assure you are on track
• Complete at least a rough draft essay by Thursday, June 2nd in class

Consequences: Academic Detention that day, Email home

Homework: I will check all study guides, 11-14 on Friday. It is imperative you check school web site and Edmodo for the expectations.

Read and annotate Chapter 14.  Study for The Secret Life of Bees Exam.  Essay part is three paragraphs.

 

I.Intro/Thesis

II. Body paragraph

III. Concluding Paragraph

 

Read and annotate Chapter 14.  Study for The Secret Life of Bees Exam.  Essay part is three paragraphs.

 

I.Intro/Thesis

II. Body paragraph

III. Concluding Paragraph

 

Friendly Reminders: Study Guides due Friday, Annotations due tomorrow. The Secret Life of Bees Exam tomorrow.

Read and Annotate Chapter 11. Study Guides and quiz,Chapters 4-11 at the end of the week.

Complete Chapter 6 and 7 Study Guide, The Secret Life of Bees.

Friday's quiz will be on Chapters 4-7, not 4-11.  Also, I will be checking the study guides for Chapter 8-9, and the worksheets on Lily's self esteem, sequence handout, conflict handout, and sequence handout.

Read and annotate Chapter 9, The Secret Life of Bees, focusing on conflict.

I will be checking all Vocabulary worksheets, (Up to Chapters 10) on Monday.

Read and annotate chapter 7, The Secret Life of Bees.  Quiz on Chapters 1-3 at the end of the week.  I will be checking study guide question, Chapters 2-5 at the end of the week.

Read first 15 pages of chapter 8, The Secret Life of Bees.  Quiz, Chapters 1-3 quiz, also, Chapters 2-5, Study Guide questions.

Read and annotate Chapter 5, The Secret Life of Bees. Focus your annotations on why Lily is in Tiburon.

Read and Annotate Chapter 6: focus on the wooden statue of the Madonna and the relationship between June and Neil.

Read and annotate Chapter 4, The Secret Life of Bees, focusing on the images of the Madonna.

Homework: Read and Annotate chapter 2, The Secret Life of Bees, focusing on the racial component of the chapter.

Read and annotate Chapter 3 of The Secret Life of Bees, focusing on the religious imagery in this section of the reading.

Read and Annotate Pages 15-33 of the novel, The Secret Life of Bees.  You will also complete questions 1-6 of the study guide.

Read and Annotate pages 1-15 from the novel, The Secret Life of Bees.
Remember when annotating:
1. Circle Key Words
2. Underline Key Phrases
3. Paraphrase your annotations in the margins

Review powerpoint on figurartive language.  After review, take Cornell Notes on the Metaphor section only.  Also, it is imperative you have your novel, The Secret Life of Bees.  Those who do not bring novels will receive an academic detention.

The quiz that was scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday will be moved to Friday. Bring your essays from today to class for tomorrow and Wednesday. Bring all your worksheets for "Walter Mitty," and bring your textbook to review for the quiz.

Students to complete any classwork not completed.  "Walter Mitty," quiz at the end of the week. English 9 Honors Final Draft Essay, "The Road Not Taken," due Friday 11:59 through turnitin.com

Make edits and revisions and resubmit your outlines and begin your essays. Final draft essays will be due next Friday, March 4.  Keep in mind you have to have three people make comments on your outline and make the revisions they suggested if you want to receive full credit.

Hard Copy of your essay due next class.  Final draft due Friday for all periods EXCEPT  period 3

Work on you first draft of your essay.  Students need to bring you first draft of your essays on March 1st and March 2nd.  Your final drafts will be due on turnit.com on March 4th.

Final Draft Outlines Due Friday, February 19th, at Midnight.  Please submit your outline into the Google folder I shared with you.  No email submissions will be accepted unless you have prior permission from instructor.

Make sure your outline:

1. Is in proper MLA format

2. That you have textual evidence from the Frost Poem on 725

3. You have textual evidence from the Pritchard Essay

4. No bibliography or works cited page is necessary for the outline

 

I've attached a checklist for your review as far as the MLA expectations of your outline.

Students: You will have a substitute on Monday.  I will attach he agenda for your review so you know what to expect.  Materials you will need:

 

Graphic Organizer for Rhyme and Meter and Paraphrasing due next class completed neatly and written in blue or black ink.

Review powerpoint on outlining.

Homework: Be ready for Vocabulary Quiz tomorrow, “Elements of Poetry and Analyzing Poetry, pages 608-611. “The Secret Life of Bees,” Sue Monk Kid, by January 25th, 2016.

Announcement for all Poets!

Sometime today, I will be attaching the study guide for the final and accompanying powerpoints that will assist you in completing the study guide. You will be receiving a hardcopy of the study guide, which is due Tuesday, December 15th. You will have class time to complete the study guide. This is also a time to make-up any missing or late work. The deadline to turn in missing work is also Tuesday, December 15th. From this point out, you need to bring your textbook and both novels we have covered this semester. (To Kill a Mockingbird and In the Time of Butterflies)

I am replacing question #3 with an essay question from the Interlopers.  Here is the question below.

1.What makes the ending of “The Interlopers” surprising? Has Saki, the author,
prepared readers for the ending, or has he led readers to expect a different kind of
ending? Answer these questions in an essay, using evidence from the story as
support for your response.

Homework:
Read and mark text, Chapters 10-12 by the end of the week.

Homework:

Read and Mark the Text, Chapter 10

Attached are the powerpoints to assist you with the study guide.

Students and Parents:

 

I will be available for tutoring Today and Monday-Tuesday, 2:30-3:00.

Homework:

Read and Mark text for Chapter 8

Homework:
Read and Mark text chapter 8 and study for your In the Time of Butterflies quiz

Homework: Summary/Response: Have the students write a personal response for their favorite example of irony.  Must be at least two paragraphs. Read and mark the text for Chapter 7.  There will be a quiz on the first 6 chapters of the novel on Friday.

1. Homework: Summary/ Response, write about another person in this book who has shown selfishness and the effects of it. Read and mark the text for Chapter 6. There will be a quiz on the first 6 chapters of the novel on Friday.

 

2. Summary needs to be two paragraphs. Remember that a paragraph is 5-12 sentences.

Homework:

Read and Mark the Text, Chapter 5.

Homework: Mark the text Chapter 4 and one page summary response on Sintata's play.

Announcement:  Email submissions of your final draft essays will not be accepted.  They need to be submitted through Turnitin.com.  If you are concerned, please see me today and tomorrow after school.

Homework: Mark the text Chapter 3

Tonight's homework:
Read Chapter 2 and mark the text. Mark the text, especially when it comes to point of view.

Homework: Complete your foreshadowing list and read Chapter 1 and mark the text for that chapter of novel In the Time of Butterflies

Summary/Response: Opening setting of the novel, In the Time of Butterflies.

Due Thursday.  Also, final draft outlines due Friday.

Just to clarify for periods 5,6 the MLA notes are due tomorrow not Friday. The outline is due Friday.

Homework: Take notes on attached powerpoint and final draft outline due at the end of the week

Study for your Test on "The Interlopers."  Review the notes you took for class and review the story; story beings on page 270. 

Vocabluary Quiz had been moved to Friday so we can review literary packet. That is homework for tonight if you did not finish in class. Vocab quiz will be a combination of words from textbook and your packet

Homework: Finish your literary packet or the "Interlopers and prepare for you Vocabulary Quiz for the story on Thursday.  Also, book check on Friday for novel, "In the Times of Butterflies.

Reminder that To Kill a Mockingbird essay is due tomorrow at 3pm. Please submit through google docs and place essay in folder I shared with you.  If you are running into any issues, please see before school or after school.

To Kill a Mocking essay due October 15th by Midnight.  Must be submitted by turnitin.com.  Student who do not have the turnit.com class ID, please see me ASAP.

Choose one of the thesis statements you created in class during pair assignment and begin your To Kill a Mockingbird essay due October 15th.  I will attach the prompts if you forgot.  I will check the Cornell Notes for body paragraphs tomorrow, 10/9.

Rubric for the final essay.

Attention Students:

The essay due date will be moved to Friday, October 16th. Also, consider the essay a rough draft; it does not need to be turned in to turn it.com. Please submit through google docs so we can edit in class.

 

Homework for Monday Night:

1. Review the powerpoint on concluding paragraphs
2. Review two video links on this post http://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F9ME797FmLnc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9ME797FmLnc&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F9ME797FmLnc%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=242ffba84156461c9117ad8ddc27c039&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube

 

2.Drawing Concluding Paragraphs

 

 

Tonight's homework:
Objective: How to develop body paragraphs for your essay
Task 1: Review Powerpoint on Developing the Middle
Task 2: Watch video link on "writing body paragraphs."
Task 3: Take cornell notes on both the powerpoint and video
Task 4: Review your notes and summarize for next class

Marking the text: Chapters 30-31.  To Kill a Mockingbird essay due Thursday, October 15th through turnit.com

Marking the text, Chapters 28-29 and study for "Most Dangerous Game," quiz for Friday, October 2nd.

Homework: Mark the text, Chapters 25-27.  Study for quiz, "The Most Dangerous Game."  Quiz will be this Friday, October 2nd.

Homework, read, “The Most Dangers Game,” page 215-236

Homework: Marking the Text, Chapters 16-18, To Kill a Mockingbird

Dear Parents:

 

I am attaching the Parent Conference Appointment schedule based on those who signed up first.  If would like me to add you to the list, feel free to send me and email or you can sign in when you arrive.

Tonight's homework: Marking the text pages 19-21, To Kill a Mockingbird

Mark the Text, Chapters 13-15, To Kill a Mockingbird

Reminder that we will be having a test on short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," on page 60 of your textbook.  Please study your literature packet: Vocabulary Warm-up and Graphic Organizer on elements of plot.

 

If you do not have your packet, consult with the vocabulary terms at the end of the selection and study the elements of plot on page 43 and the diagram on page 69 of the textbook.

Study for Cask of Amontillado Test on Friday and Marking the text, chapters 10,11,12 (Due Thursday)

Study Guide Questions Chapters 1-8, To Kill a Mockingbird will be due

Students are to apply the text strategy to Chapters 7-9 in novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Marking the Text, Chapters 7-9 in To Kill A Mockingbird.  Annotations will be checked next class.

Students are to implement "Marking the Text Strategy" to chapters 4-6 in novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

Book Check. Students are required to bring their textbook, novels, and three-ring binder to class on Monday, August 24th.  This material check will count as a homework assignment.  Please see course policy if you have any further questions about required materials for class.

Course Policy Parent/Student Contract

Homework: Use Marking the Text Strategy for Chapter 4, To Kill a Mockingbird.