Welcome!

Class Expectations and Overview

Turn in summer reading assignments.

Read "Not from Where You're Standing" and discuss.

HW: Prepare for Zinsser and Lamott in class writing.

Welcome!

Class Overview and Expectations

Quickwrite: What is 9th Grade Lit/Comp? What are my expectations?

Read "The Man in the Water" and discuss.

In-class essay on Zinsser and Lamott

HW: Read "How to Mark a Book" (look especially at the outline) and then read and annotate "Left Sink." Prepare to discuss both pieces in class tomorrow.

DGP - Tuesday

Go over syllabus

Notes on bias, subjective and objective language. See Mrs. Rumfelt or a classmate for the notes if you were absent.

HW: Signed syllabus due Monday August 17.

Discuss annotating and notetaking

Demonstrate with "Left Sink"

Discuss "Left Sink"

HW: Find 2 passages in Zinsser and 2 passages in Lamott that discuss one of the following: becoming a writer, the struggles with being a writer, audience, the importance of language and communication, how to be a writer. Or, find a passage that you thought was interesting stylistically (diction, tone, imagery, narrative).

DGP - Clauses and Sentence Types

Finish notes

14th Street Bridge article - underline examples of loaded language.

HW: Complete reading log comparing 14th Street Bridge to Man in the Water. Download reading log here.

Notes on Rhetoric - see Mrs. Rumfelt or a classmate to get notes if you were absent.

Small group discussion of Zinsser and Lamott

Choose passages for large group discussion.

HW: Annotate the assigned passages for your class thoroughly and come to class prepared to discuss!

DGP - Punctuation and Capitalization

Discuss homework (paragraph about effectiveness of articles); turn in reading log.

Interviews: write 15 good interview questions and interview your assigned partner.

HW: Organize notes; we will work on the article in class tomorrow; and work on presenting them.

Work in class on writing interview article.

HW: 2-3 paragraphs with heading and in pen (or typed) due Monday.

Death of a Salesman Test. See Mrs. Rumfelt to make up if you were absent.

Media Center Orientation

Turn in scavenger hunt and yellow computer sheet to Mrs. Rumfelt!

Go over syllabus - signed syllabus sheet due on Friday.

Visual Rhetoric - notes and practice analysis

HW:

Follow-up exercise:

Skim through the images of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement at this website:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1704734_1520199,00.html

Focus on images #2, 4, 9, 11, and 18.

Choose one of the images listed above and use the SCANS chart to take notes on it. Then, write a short response in which you analyze the ways in which the details of the image convey the photograph's message.

DGP - Monday and Tuesday [each of the girls did her homework]

Present interviews and turn in articles.

Nonfiction notes

Discuss photos from Civil Rights Movement.

Start talking about visual argument project.

DGP - Clauses and Sentence Types

Finish nonfiction notes.

Read "The Chase" by Annie Dillard. (Get the story from Mrs. Rumfelt if you were absent.)
Download reading log for "The Chase"

HW: Finish reading and work on reading log.

DGP - Thursday

Discuss Dillard's '"The Chase"

7th: Start reading excerpts from An Na's Step from Heaven.

HW: Finish reading the excerpts and take notes on point of view and selection of details.

Discuss visual argument project.

Work in small groups and discuss The World is Flat.

HW: Finish assertions and arguments.

Vocab Unit #1: Words due Wednesday. Please include: part of speech, definition, and an original sentence for each word.
Adjunct
Bellwether
Caterwaul
Chimerical
Effete
Fait accompli
Hidebound
Hierarchy
Liturgy
Mirage
Morass
Noisome
Oblivious
Poltroon
Proselyte
Quasi
Raillery
Ribald
Supine
Vignette

5th: The World is Flat Essays
6th: Visual Examples and work in groups.

HW: Arguments and supporting points due this week.

DGP - Parts of Speech

Discuss A Step from Heaven - sensory details and author's purpose.

Read Rosa Parks: My Story and discuss. 3rd: Write a paragraph comparing Rosa Parks to the other two autobiographies/memoirs we read.

DGP - Parts of the sentence

Discuss 5 minute narrative/memoir

Notes on Show Not Tell Writing

HW: Work on memoir ideas.

5th: Visual Argument Examples; work in groups

6th: World is Flat Essay

HW: Arguments due Thursday, storyboard/ preliminary sketches due Monday

Go over vocabulary for Unit 1.

Work in small groups on project.

DGP - Clauses and Sentence Types

5 Minute Narrative - Work on sensory detail charts and timelines.

HW: Bring in your draft to type in the lab on Thursday.

DGP - Thursday

Computer Lab to work on essays.

HW: Rough draft due Monday. We WILL be in the computer lab on Friday as well!

Turn in arguments for visual argument project

Visual Analysis of photo in small groups: thesis and outline

HW: Storyboards and preliminary sketches due Monday.

Vocabulary Quiz #1

Discuss essay on art and science.

HW: Storyboard or sketches due Monday - this is your only homework this weekend.

Turn in storyboards and preliminary sketches/outlines.

MC Practice #1 - Discuss MC questions.

HW: Project due Thursday.

DGP - Parts of Speech

This week's sentence: [your friend from switzerland is a good student]

Rough drafts due today! Peer edit rough drafts.

HW: Final draft due Thursday.