Mrs. Hagood

Week One 9th

Honors Ninth English Spring 2012

Week of January 23, 2012

Monday:  Continued discussion of Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet.  HW:  Finish guided questions for Act 1.

Tuesday:  Discuss homework, take CFA over ACT 1, and begin Act 11.

Wednesday:  Listen and discuss Act 11, using guided questions.

Thursday and Friday:  Continue Act II, using guided questions for focus.  Also introduce vocabulary 9--quiz next Thursday.  Remember to bring your word wall word to class next Wednesday.

HW:  Finish Act 11 scene 3 questions for Friday.

 

Honors American Lit Spring 2012

Week of January 23, 2012

Monday through Wednesday:  We will meet in the media center to research and write our poetry explication essay  The enrollment password for Turnitin is pope. Here are the class ID's for Turnitin:

1st period--4490134

3rd period--4490138

5th period--4490141

6th period--4490143

Thursday and Friday:  We will meet in the classroom to take CFA and CSA on poetry of Fireside Poets, Dickinson, and Whitman.  We will begin working on Vocabulary 9 as well.  Remember to bring Huck Finn to class Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

Honors Ninth Lit Spring 2012

Week of January 16, 2012

Monday:  MLK Holiday

Tuesday:  Introduction to William Shakespeare--A & E Biography

Wednesday:  Health survey, vocabulary review, begin Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Thursday:  Vocabulary 8 quiz.  Continue Act I of Romeo and Juliet

Friday:  Continue Act I Romeo and Juliet

 

Honors American Lit. Spring 2012

Week of January 17

Here are some sites to assist you with your reading of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

Download Huck_finn_study_guide

And here is a review for the novel:

Download Read Check - Review TP

And here is a study guide:

Download Cummings Study Guide

And some links to online study aids:

Gradesaver / Classit Lit link

Glencoe Study Guide

This week we will focus on the life and work of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.

Monday: MLK Holiday

Tuesday:  Powerpoint on Dickinson  Download Emily Dickinson_1Rag 

Here are some other powerpoints you might be interested in:

Download Overview of Dickinsons Life Blue Sky

Download Emily Dickinson-Bio

Wednesday: Health survey, vocabulary review and continue work on Dickinson's "A Certain Slant of LIght" as model for how to write explication

Thursday: Vocabulary quiz and introduce Walt Whitman  Download Walt Whitman

Friday: Begin background reading for poetry explication in media center.

Honors Ninth English Spring 2012

January 9, 2012   HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME BACK!

We will begin this semster by focusing on SAT writing skills with a week-long workshop. Students will write a practice 25-minute essay on Wednesday.  Students will practice scoring sample SAT essays on Thursday.  Students will receive their scored essay.  Friday, students will write another 25-minute essay in class.  This one counts as a grade!

Next week we will begin Romeo and Juliet.

Honors American Lit Spring 2012

 JANUARY 9, 2012       HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME BACK! 

We will begin this semester by focusing on poetry, specifically The Fireside Poets, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.  You will be writing an essay-length explication of a poem, but we will  be explicating a number of poems together in class before you will write your own.  For those of you who are planning to take AP Literature next year, poetry explication is critical,  for at least one-third of the AP exam consists of poetry analysis.

Tuesday and Wednesday:  Powerpoint presentation on The Fireside Poets, focusing on Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha Download Fireside poets ppt tp

Thursday and Friday: Continued powerpoint presentation of The Fireside Poets, focusing on Longfellow's "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" and Holmes "Old Ironsides."  Students will write a bold three-sentence introductory paragraph for "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" that addresses the form of the poem (content + form = meaning).

Introduced vocabulary 8 words.  Lesson is due next Wednesday and the quiz will be Friday.

Students also checked out Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, this six-week's parallel reading which is due February 7th.

Homework:  Read Huck Finn.

Honors Ninth English: Fall 2011

Week of December 12, 2011

Monday:  Model how to write analytical paragraph.  Students will then begin their draft.  Due tomorrow.

Tuesday:  Discussion of John Steinbeck life, work and themes.  Also view short video.

Wednesday:  Discussion of opening chapters of novel

Thursday:  Vocabulary 7 quiz

Friday:  Of Mice and Men test

Honors American Lit: Fall 2011

Week of December 12, 2011

Monday:  Transcendentalism CFA and review

Tuesday:  Transcendentalism CSA and review

Wednesday:  The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail review

Thursday:  The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail test

Friday:  Exam review

Honors Ninth English: Fall 2011

Week of December 5, 2011

Monday:  Return classification essays.  Students share the best of the best!  Afterward continue discussion of FRost's "The Road Not Taken."

Tuesday:  Review all poetry terms for tomorrow's CFA, emphasizing narrative poetry and the ballad.

Wednesday: Poetry CFA  Afterward read Of Mice and Men

Thursday: Poetry CSA Afterward read Of Mice and Men

Friday:  Discussion of poetry explication assignment.  Be sure to bring your annotated poem to class on Monday so that you will be ready to write your explication!

Honors American Lit: Fall 2011

Week of December 5, 2011

Monday:  Finish powerpoint presentations  HW:  Read The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.  The test will be next Thursday or Friday.

Tuesday:  Finish powerpoint presentations.  Begin discussion of Nature and "Self-Reliance."  HW:  Read The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

Wednesday:  Continue discussion of Nature, "Self-Reliance."  HW:  Read The NIght Thoreau Spent in Jail

Thursday:  Continue discussion of "Self-Reliance."

Friday:  View video on Thoreau's Walden and "Civil Disobedience."  HW:  Read Walden and "Civil Disobedience."

Coming up next week:  Transcendentalism CFA Tuesday, CSA Wednesday, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail test Thursday, Holiday Breakfast the following Monday!