Honors English 9

1. Honors English 9 Week 11: October 29 – November 2, 2012

2. Due Today: Chapter 1 Reading Notes (title, events/characters, and response) Monday, October 29, 2012 • Walk-In: If you do not have a printed copy of your TIB essay for your reading, please pick up your essay. • Learning Objective: • Students will identify the main idea and techniques used to support it in an oral reading. • Identify and explain elements of exposition and point of view in the opening chapters of a novel. • Use context clues to create meanings for unknown words. • Agenda: • To Kill a Mockingbird Discussion • Exposition • Main Characters • Setting • Ch 1 Questions and Quotes • “This I Believe” Presentations Homework: Read Chapter 2 Reading Notes (title, events/characters, and response)

3. To Kill a Mockingbird • Chapter # - Title • Key Events • Characters / Setting • Key Quote Parenthetical Citation (Life Lesson) • Reaction 4-5 sentences

4. Chapter 1 Review Questions • Describe the relationship that Atticus has with his children. Do you feel he is a good father? * • How had Mr. Radley seen to it that his younger son Arthur (Boo) caused “no further trouble” in Maycomb? * • Describe the physical setting of the novel. • Who is the narrator? • Who is Dill? • What dare of Dill’s does Jem finally accept?

5. To Kill a Mockingbird Review Quotes • Chapter 1: “That was the summer that Dill came to us…” (Lee 1). • What role does Dill play in the story at this point? How does this serve as an important sentence in the overall structure of the novel? Why do we get a sense that he is going to become a major character? • Chapter 1: There are “other ways [besides chaining them to beds] of making people into ghosts” (Lee 14). • Who is the speaker? What does he mean by ghosts and what ways does he mean? What are three ways a person can be made into a ghost, besides chaining them to beds (or the obvious)?

6. THIS I BELIEVE - Presentations PRESENTATION REMINDERS • Voice Consistency • Volume and Clarity • Voice Pacing • Rate in which the essay is read (too quickly or too slowly) • Pausing for emphasis and to aid audience comprehension NOTES DURING PRESENTATIONS • Speaker • Belief Statement, Examples, Positive Attribute

7. Due Today: TKAM Reading Ch 2 Tuesday, October 30, 2012 • Walk-In: Take out your “This I Believe” presentation rubric and your essay. • Learning Objective: • Students will identify the belief in an oral reading of an essay and record techniques that they admire. • Agenda: • This I Believe Presentations Homework: TKAM Reading Ch. 3-4 and reading notes. Bring your vocab workbook tomorrow.

8. THIS I BELIEVE - Presentations PRESENTATION REMINDERS • Voice Consistency • Volume and Clarity • Voice Pacing • Rate in which the essay is read (too quickly or too slowly) • Pausing for emphasis and to aid audience comprehension NOTES DURING PRESENTATIONS • Speaker • Belief Statement, Examples, Positive Attribute

9. To Kill a Mockingbird • Chapter # - Title • Key Events • Characters / Setting • Key Quote Parenthetical Citation (Life Lesson) • Reaction 4-5 sentences

10. Due Today: Wed/Thurs, Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2012 • Walk-In: Take out something to write with. • Learning Objective: • Students will demonstrate their reading comprehension in two short constructed responses and in a multiple choice test. • Agenda: • Acuity Homework: TKAM Reading Ch 3-4

11. Acuity Directions • Complete the two short constructed response paragraphs. • Remember a strong response consists of a direct answer to the question, specific examples from the text to support your answer and a explanation or analysis about why those examples support your answer. • Remember MEAL. • You have 40 minutes to complete this. • If you finish early, read To Kill a Mockingbird

12. Acuity Directions • Open Internet Explorer • From the BCHS Homepage select Students. • Under Links, select Acuity • Log-in using your username, which is jpsstudent id and your password. • This may be your 6 digit birthdate or the password you changed it to last year. • From the page What would you like to do today click Take Test. • Start with the Language Arts Form A test • Skip questions 6 and 27. • When you are done click Finish and report your score to the teacher

13. To Kill a Mockingbird • Chapter # - Title • Key Events • Characters / Setting • Key Quote Parenthetical Citation (Life Lesson) • Reaction 4-5 sentences

14. Due Today: TKAM Reading Ch 3-4 Friday, November 2, 2012 • Walk-In: Put your vocab workbook in the box on the chair, take out your “This I Believe” audience notes, your To Kill a Mockingbird book, and your chapter 1-4 notes. • Learning Objective: • Students will identify the main idea and techniques used to support it in an oral reading. • Identify and explain elements of plot, answer key questions, and analyze specific quotes from a novel. • Agenda: • “This I Believe” Presentations • TKAMDiscussion 2-4 Homework: Read Chapter 5 in TKAM Reading Log #3

15. Chapters 2 ,3, & 4 Review Questions • At the Finch’s for lunch, what does Walter put on his food? * • After Calpurnia makes Scout leave the table, what “lecture” does she give her? * • How did Burris Ewell behave in the classroom? Who do you think is to blame for his behavior? * • What is the neighborhood’s opinion of Mrs. Dubose? * • After Atticus catches the children with the scissors, what is Jem’s reaction? What is Scout’s reaction? Why? * • When Jem takes Scout to school for her first day, what “order” does he give her? • What does Miss Caroline tell Scout that Atticus is not to do anymore? • After Scout’s first day of school, how does she feel about it? • Explain why Scout goes back to the Radley house one afternoon. • What does Jem say about the “Indian-heads” they find in the knothole in the tree?

16. To Kill a Mockingbird Review Quotes • Chapter 2: “We’ll do like we always do at home” [Jem] said, “but you’ll see—school’s different” (Lee 21). • Should expectations of behavior be different at home and in school? • How different, if at all, should one’s behavior be at home and in the public? What might this say about the home or the person in general? • Chapter 3: Atticus tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (Lee 39). • So far in the book, who should have considered things from a different point of view? Why is this so hard for people to do sometimes? • Chapter 4: “Grown folks don’t have hidin’ places”(Lee 46). • Why might this be and do you feel that this is true? Why or why not?