1 st Nine Weeks

1. 1st Nine Weeks Short Stories Drama Non fiction Poetry

2. Ice Breaker • Find a partner • Place your name on the top of your papers. • Describe the following things about yourself using only pictures. • Partners must guess what the other person is trying to say. • Switch when done. • You must introduce your partner.

3. Answer the following • Favorite movie • Favorite song • People in your family • Hobbies • Favorite color • Favorite thing to do outside of school

4. Child Called It • Pre-reading question: • What is child abuse? • What is the difference between child abuse and discipline?

5. Important Dates • 9/5 Labor Day • 10/14 End of Nine Weeks / Early Out • 10/31 Early Out • 11/11 Veterans Day • 11/23 – 25 Thanksgiving Holiday • 12/16 End of Nine Weeks / Early out • 12/19-30 Winter Break • 1/16 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday • 1/30 Student Holiday • 2/20 President’s Holiday • 3/9 End of Nine Weeks • 3/12-16 Spring Break • 4/6 Student Holiday • 5/25 Early Release • 5/28 Memorial Day Holiday • 5/31 End of Nine Weeks

6. Attendance • What affect does attendance have on grades? • 10 days with doctor or parent notes. • When you are absent it is your responsibility to get the work that you missed. • Exchange numbers with another student in class to be your study buddy.

7. School Rules • Do you think there are any rules that should be eliminated? Why? • Are there any new rules that you think should be added?

8. Good Grades • On a scale from 1-5, where do you rate your organizational skills. • Do you have any study tips or tricks that work well for you? • Do different teachers have different class rules?Is that fair? • What subject area do you need to work on the most? • What can you do to improve your grades in those areas?

9. Good Grades • Why do students cheat? • Why is it bad? • Do students care if others are cheating? • Is it cheating to copy another student’s homework? • What are some examples of unreliable websites? • How can you tell the difference between sites with fact and those with opinion? • What are the different ways you use the internet? • What is personal information and why is it important to never give out personal information?

10. Connected Reading • Pearson textbook pp.92-95 • Pre-AP / TAG: Design a T-Shirt for Patriot University and its new expectations.

11. Warm Up • List the rules that you know you broke last year, whether you were caught or not.

12. Vocabulary • Impostor • Knaves • Sinew • Virtue • Foes

13. IfBy: Rudyard Kipling • Quick Write: How does the poem tie into Patriot University? • Pre-AP / TAG: What are the characteristics that make you a good student? Create your own “If” advice poem that gives your recipe to academic success for other students to follow and become successful.

14. Related Reading • Reality Central p.68 • Give three reasons why you character should or should not be taught in school. • What rules do you think we should have for a debate?

15. Patriot University Quiz • Why is it important to know if a website is reliable? • Explain three things you can do to help you get better grades? • Summarize what the article “Learning Character was about” • Explain why rules are important and necessary? • What are some things you can do to help you deal with anger or stress?

16. Classroom Rules • Interactive Notebook Assignments: A. Will be graded in your notebook B. Are worth 45%- 55% of your grade C. Must have color to qualify for 100% • Daily Oral Language: • Copy your word onto your index card and look up definition. • Read DOL and find grammatical errors. • DOL will account for 45% class work grade. • Index cards will be corrected every Friday to be graded. • Weekly test on spelling and defining each DOL word.

17. Group Work / Pair Share: 45% - 55% • Unit Tests & Quizzes: 55% • Nine Weeks Exam: Weighted as 2 summatives • Semester Exam: 20% of semester average.

18. If you choose to take your notebook, then you are responsible to bring it back every day or get a zero. • When coming into class, immediately sit at your assigned seat and complete your vocab card and dol. • When finished you may work on your cards or read until I am ready. • Raise your hand to speak, go to the restroom, or as me a question. • Do not get out of your seat unless you have been given permission. • Respect each other. You will be placed on a step for making fun of another student.

19. Interactive Assignment • Write a narrative or poem about your summer vacation.

20. Author’s purpose?

22. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summary: Author’s purpose is….

23. Purpose For Reading

24. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summary: It is important to establish a purpose for reading ……

25. Point Of View

26. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Point of View is………. First person point of view is….. Third person point of view Is…

27. Advantages & Disadvantages

28. Advantages & Disadvantages

29. Connecting Fiction and Non – Fiction • Purpose for Reading: To make connections between the Mark and Peter story and the First Impressions article. • Reality Central Book pp. 29-31 • Write down at least one way they are connected.

30. Making Connections • How does the text relate to the short story? • What sentences support the conclusion that Mark was trying to make a good first impression? • Find a sentence that supports the conclusion that Pete was impressed with Mark’s house?

31. Characterization

32. Thinks Sees the world Says Feels Actions Travels

33. Character Conflicts • External - The struggle is with an outside force or another person. • Internal – The struggle is in the mind. • Man vs. Man • Man vs. Self • Man vs. Nature • Man vs. Society • Man vs. Machine

34. Literary Devices • Foreshadowing: Clues that hint at future events. • Flashback: Interrupting the sequence of a story with the memory of a passed event. • Irony: The statements true meaning is the opposite of what it says. Sometimes sarcasm can be ironic and can be funny, but in other times it isn’t. Ex: A dog saves the life of a man who hates dogs.

35. Short Stories • Textbook pp. 237 - 243

36. Pre-AP / TAG Paper • Write a paper analyzing the role of grandparents and how they are depicted in all three sources. Relate your own experiences to help strengthen your paper. Use support from all three sources. • Research each writers background. Analyze how their personal history, beliefs or even cultural practices affected their writing. Use support from all three sources to support your claims.

37. Story: The Game • Purpose for Reading: 1. Fill out a stick man organizer to analyze the protagonist in a short story. Support your claims. 2. Use a sequence story map to analyze the linear plot development of a text.

38. Paired Comprehension Questions • In what point of view is the story told? • How is this an advantage? • How is it a disadvantage? • What is the author’s purpose in writing this story? • Which of the narrator’s qualities help influence the theme? • How do these qualities help with the resolution? • How might the story have been different if the narrator were a ball hog?

39. Theme

40. HoopsDialectical Journal __________________________________________________________________ Summary: Figurative language is

41. Connections • How does the poem connect to the short story? • Which text paints a better picture for you? Why? • How do both the author and poet feel about the game of basketball?

42. Poem • Write an acrostic poem about the main concept in the poem hoops.

43. Basketball and Me • What is the setting? • How are girls women before their time? • Where is there a change of mood in the story? • How is the narrator different from the other girls in the neighborhood? • What is her tone in paragraph 5? • Why does her mood change at the end of p.251? • Why does she infer that her little brother is jealous of her? • What caused her skills to increase? • What kind of statistic is she hoping not to be?

44. Connected Reading 1. How did the coach react when his team was loosing? A. Positive B. Encouraging C. Taught them a skill to help D. Played on their strengths 2. Where does the coach from “The Game” fit into this article about adults? 3. How does the way the coach handles his team affect his team? 4. Did he let his kids have fun? Find support.

45. Inferences

46. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summary: In order to make a good inference you must …

47. Warm Up • Use the words in the box to help you predict what the story is going to be about? Hate Wife Murder Board game Husband Anger Words Death

48. Guided Questions • Point of view? • Advantages? • Disadvantages? • Irony & Karma? • Suspense? • Genre? • Author’s purpose? • Moral? • Theme?

49. Inference Chart Test Prep Inference: The educated guess. Support: The lines and details from the story that prove your answer. ** Sometimes you have to make the inference and sometimes your are given the inference but must find that support that proves the inference.

50. Complex Inferences • How might the story have been different if told from the wife’s perspective? • How might the story have been different if told from the 3rd person omniscient perspective? • At what point in the story does the reader know that the wife is aware that he wants to kill her? • What is odd about this narrator? • What words hint at the fact that someone is going to die? • Were you expecting that particular ending? • Why do you think they hated each other so much? • What would have been a better way to work out their problems with each other? • Do you think the woman should be charged with murder for not helping her husband when he was choking? Why or why not?