Monthly Archives: September 2017
Friday 29 Sept- English 9 SWS
Finish “Cottleston Pie”.
Work on Friday #4. If you’d like to make revisions to any earlier assignments, please let me know.
Friday 29 Sept- AP Lang
Complete the 3 sentence workshop form in Classroom. We will look at a couple and revise them.
Please have the Identity Essay complete and turned in on Monday.
Thursday 28 Sept- English 9H
There was a really interesting sentence in the section we read yesterday. Please copy the second sentence down in your Author Craft section of your composition book.
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We entered into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying ground. I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses that I had ever seen.
Now, try it! Create a sentence with a similar structure. Topic is up to you.
You may use the rest of the hour to work on reading the text and Friday #4.
Thursday 28 Sept- AP Lang
Today we will first take a look at some sentence level analysis. Consider the sentence below.
He was walking, running, and jumping for joy.
Parallel structure (parallelism) |
refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence; it involves an arrangement of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and similarly phrased |
Now, try it. Create a sentence using this parallel structure. Is there a place in your Identity Essay that could use such a construction?
Columnist Draft- Please complete the form in Classroom regarding your columnist. We will work with another piece from this writer next week.
Thursday 28 Sept- English 9 SWS
Grounding question- Write about a time when you felt like you were doing something well. It doesn’t have to be a huge thing. Just a time when you felt good about what you were doing.
Text- page 56. Here we find out what Pooh really means when he says “Cottleston Pie”.
Wednesday 27 Sept- English 9H
Today we are looking at chapters 20-23, with a focus on characterization and plot. There will be notes.
Wednesday 27 Sept- English 9 SWS
Today we will finish with Cottleston Pie. We begin on page 50 with a discussion of “Why does a chicken, I don’t know why.” Keep up with your notes!
Go ahead and start thinking about Friday #4. At least read the poem and start thinking about it.
Wednesday 27 Sept- AP Lang
Open this file of rubrics and scroll to the last one, which is what we will use to score your first major essay. Ignore the 4 columns on the right.
What do you need to do to make this paper a polished effort?
Find one trouble spot in particular that we can conference about during this class period.
Final drafts on Friday.
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