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Honors English 9

Honors English 9. Week 5: January 30 – February 3, 2012. Due Today : Hercules Hero Chart. Monday, January 30, 2012. Walk-IN: Take out your Create A Myth Handout, your rough draft, and your Greek Roots Phob-Topo Handout. Learning Objective:

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Honors English 9

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  1. Honors English 9 Week 5: January 30 – February 3, 2012

  2. Due Today: Hercules Hero Chart Monday, January 30, 2012 • Walk-IN: Take out your Create A Myth Handout, your rough draft, and your Greek Roots Phob-Topo Handout. • Learning Objective: • You will revise your writing for ideas (specific descriptive details) organization (introduction/beginning, new body paragraph for movement of time, setting or main idea, resolution/message), voice (fits the tone of the words), sentence fluency (flow and pace of sentences fit tone and purpose) word choice (sensory details) and conventions (use punctuation to build tone or suspense by manipulating the pacing). • Agenda: • Finish Mythology Test • Create A Myth Revision • Greek Roots Phob-Topo Homework: Final Draft of Myth Due Blockday

  3. Myth Revision • Ideas: • Specific showing words • The more specific the less words you need  • Organization: • Beginning (hero’s life, beginning before natural phenomenon) • New Time, New Setting, New Idea = New Paragraph • Resolution/Message of Myth • Voice: • Fits tone of myth—may shift • Sentence Fluency: • Use sentence lengths to enhance pacing to fits tone and purpose • Word Choice: • Sensory Details • Conventions: • Use variety of punctuation appropriately to build tone suspense through pacing

  4. Myth Introduction • Before you present your myth to the class you need a short introduction to your myth or a precis • A precis is a short summary of essential points or facts • For your precis include: • Your purpose or goal of your myth • Why this myth would be important to an individual or a society • And what you feel makes this an interesting story Also include a drawing depicting one of the scenes from your myth.

  5. Due Today: Nothing Tuesday, January 24, 2012 • Walk-IN: Take out your Greek Roots handout for Phob-Topo. • Learning Objective: • Students will increase their vocabulary by learning Greek Root words, and the different meanings they have. • Agenda: • Greek Roots Phob-Topo Review Homework: Final Draft of Creative Myth Due Blockday Study for Greek Roots Quiz

  6. Greek Root Words--Review

  7. Greek Root Words--Review

  8. Wednesday/Thursday, February 1-2, 2012 Due Today: Myth • Walk-IN: Turn in your Greek Roots Handouts. Then take out your creative myth. • Learning Objective: • Students will demonstrate their knowledge of Greek Root words and the different meanings they have. • Students will share their creative myths with one another and appreciate each other’s writing. • Students will build background knowledge about the definition essay. • Agenda: • Myth Reading Groups • Myth Collection • Root Quiz • Definition Essay Unit • Introduction Quickwrites Homework: Investigation Worksheet

  9. Creative Myth Reading Groups • Your task is to share your creative myths by reading them out loud to one another. • For each person, you must record the following information. • Author • Title • Type of Myth • Purpose • Things you appreciate • You will turn this in with your myth.

  10. Definition Unit Intro. Quickwrites • What do you wish society understood about you or your age group better? • How do you define your generation? • Think about a situation when you and your parents disagreed about how to define a term (perhaps curfew, good grades, respectful behavior, appropriate language). How did you resolve this disagreement? What kind of evidence did you provide?

  11. Definition Unit Intro. Quickwrites • What‘s the purpose of dictionaries? Why did they exist? What‘s the purpose of Wikipedia? Do we need it? Why/why not? • What are (appropriate) terms that exist now but didn‘t when your parents were kids?

  12. Subjects for Exploration & Investigation Now we are going to choose one of the following topics or subjects to define independently and discuss as a class. • Love • Family • Mother • Father • Success • Marriage • Freedom • Revenge • Justice • Honor • Respect • Hate • Loyalty • Friends • Friendship • Beauty • Male • Female • Equality • Acceptance • Patriotism • Art • American Dream • Soul

  13. Definition Essay—Setting the Stage • Answer the following questions about the definition you provided. • What influenced your definition? • What personal experiences? • What learned (or researched) experiences? • What potential biases do you have toward this term or definition? • After listening to our discussion, how was your definition similar or different than that of the class and your peers. • Now transfer your definition to the handout. Please complete the rest of the handout for homework.

  14. Friday, February 3, 2012 Due Today: Investigation Worksheet • Walk-In: Take out your homework that you completed about the definition of our selected term. • Learning Objective: • Students will build background knowledge about the definition essay. • Agenda: • Investigation Findings • Webster’s New Words Homework: Webster’s New Word Activity

  15. Investigative Findings • Discussion Round 1: • Share out with your group about what you learned about the term we selected and how it is used in modern media and the different definitions that are associated with it. • Discussion Round 2: • Share out with your group about what you learned about the term we selected and how it is used or thought of by people from a different generation and the different definitions that are associated with it.

  16. Writer’s Notebook Response • Each year, Webster’s adds words to their dictionary, sometimes based on developments in society or uses in cultures. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/words_in.htm). For example: words such as locavore (one who eats foods grown locally), frenemy (someone who acts like a friend but is really an enemy), waterboarding (an interrogation technique use to induce the sen-sation of drowning), vlogs (a blog that contains video material) and webisode (a TV show that can be viewed at a Web site). • Brainstorm 5 possible words that should be added to Webster. Consider new activities, interests, technological advancements, historical events, forms of entertainment, etc. . . • What appropriate word from your own lexicon could be added for their contribution for society at large, and what would its definition be? Support your answer with multiple examples. • What does the usage and creation of this word suggest about our society and its individuals? Please write a paragraph answering this question and using specific examples.

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