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9th Grade English Schedule - Fall

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Friday

8/14:
- Teacher Workday: Meeting 2 hours - Faculty meeting		8/15:
- Info card
- Syllabus
- Materials
- Literary Terms
- KBAR Intro: Above and below the surface questions.
- System of the class
- HW: Signature / Materials		8/16:
- Go over syllabus
- Literary Terms		8/17:
8/18:
- Gates Test
- HW: Read "Hello My Name is Unique"
- Materials
- OR reading
8/21:
- Go over what KBAR is- kids take notes
- Do KBAR with 'Flowers'
- Model Talking to the text with the Barn.
- Introduce My Name assignment

HW: Research Name for paper

- KBAR #2: Read 20 pages due Wednesday		8/22:
- Summer Reading Tests

- Write 'My Name' paper

HW: My Name Paper & KBAR #2		8/23:
- Finish Flowers
With Flowers do a model KBAR with the class.
- 4 Themes - Introduce with Flowers- plot, setting, theme, symbol

- Go through as a class

- Model talking to the text w/ "Women's Work", "Combining", "The Follower" - Plot, setting, theme, symbol.

- My Name - Sandra Cisneros - read as a class

(assign poems/group show group how talked to?...)

HW: watch a favorite show and find plot, setting, theme and symbol. Continue to research Name paper.
8/24:
8/25:
- Model talking to the text w/ 'Women's work", "Combining" and "The Follower" - Plot, Setting, Theme, Symbol.

- Collect KBAR #2

- Plot graph - Flowers

- Grammar Work - review chapter 1 and Mastery Text (p.33)
8/28:
Model Poetry Analysis PArtner Project- 15 poems/ transparency in pairs they each analyze poem for the class. Read/ analyze poetry Focus question: What did the author learn/ discover about himself? (plot, setting, theme, symbol)

Go over how to analyze a poem- Kids take notes

Assign groups

H.W. KBAR #4

Collect my Name Paper

6 boxes- food families

H.W- KBAR #4

8/29:
Work in groups for the poem (30 min)

Read I am From 6 boxes food/ families - brainstorming for I am From Poem

Collect KBAR# 4 		8/30:
More time to work on poem analysis

(Poetry presentations Assemble and Display " I am From" and "My Name" Posters- pictures/ places from boxes and do the brainstorming (digital portfolio/ Posters exercise on appropriate internet sources)

Global Com brainstorm- tell Geoffrey Hindmen

H.W KBAR#5 / I AM From Poetry due Friday- typed		8/31:
Back to School Night		9/1:
Grammar Work- Chap 2 Diagnostic Test (p.37) And or mixed reviews (p.60)
Collect KBAR 5

Collect I AM From Poem Typed

Minimum Day

H.W. KBAR# 6
9/4:
- Labor Day: Holiday		9/5:
Get organized
Return work and explain grades
Intro to Schaffer terms Concrete detail, commentry, and topic sentence
Use the poems to illustrate what this is.
Chunk practice- using the two poems
The Flower's and Women's work- identify the sentences
collect KBAR#5		9/6:
Intro Cornell Notes- cd on the right and left commentary " Brothers and Sisters" chapter 8 of Color of Water
Model the Cornell Notes and then they do on their own		9/7:
MLA Parenthetical Citations
Model chunk practice (three sentence- 1 concrete detail and 2 commentay) from Cornell notes


HW: KBAR#6		9/8:
"Fury of the Overshoes" Do their own Cornell Notes and do their own Chunk Practice

Collect KBAR#6
9/11:
Intro Comparison Matrix w/ ""Fury" and "Bro and Sis"
Whole class discussion on overhead 3 chunk practice- 11 sentence TS, CD CM CM, 3X and 1 CS
H.W KBAR # 7		9/12:
Grammar work- diagramming - (9p. 54-57) Mastery test (p.61)
plot
H.W bring a snapshot of yourself

Collect KBAR #7		9/13:
"Only Daughter" p.694 Caramelo Excerpt Use Cornell Notes
Talk to text paragraphs

Photo Reflection: Think
Pair Share
In Impressions about their own photo- get input from partner
Writing: Letter to yourself		9/14:
Grammar work- chapter 3 Phrases- prepositional phrases p.66
Appositive p.69

Collect KBAR 8		9/15:
Professional Day
9/18:
" Everyday Use"
Intro Foil Characters- opposite characters
Use Cornell Notes
Maggie and Dee- (Timeline and significance)
Comparison chart or Venn Diagram or three column chart
Into to Quilt Project
HW: KBAR# 10
"On Being 17" Bright, and unable to read		9/19:
"Soulful Stitches"- possible suggest GC- read and respond on a blog

Quilt Square Discussion (if need to go , it can go away)
GLOBAL COM

HW- gather items of Quilt square

Collect KBAR #9		9/20:
quilt squares and snapshot reflection presentations

Present models of Autobiographical essays- See Linda's crate... Linda reads and kids have hard copy- goes in kids refrence tool area- use this to write your own autobiography Interior monologue- reflective and finish with a reflection at the end (by 2nd dem more reflection and less recall of incident		9/21:
Autoboigraphical Incident in Mcddougall Latell p.131-135

AHA moment- Julia

Alverez meomoir read this aloud
the kids annotated hint sign.
Descriptive writing:

H.W Rough Draft of Autobiographical Essay		9/22:

Schaffer Terms Test

Collect KBAR #10

H.W Rough Draft of Autoboigraphical Essay
9/25:
Autobiographical essay peer editing CAN GLOBAL COM be typed in their class
Go over dialogue or active verbs in class...
MLA formatting		9/26:
" What is Childhood?" and "Luxery" chunk practice Cornell notes
Grammar work: chapter 4 kinds of clauses- p.92
Adj-adv- pg 94-97

Collect KBAR #12		9/27:
Prepare questions for Socratic Seminar on childhood and luxury
Intro to Socratic Seminar Chunk practice
Paragraph practice		9/28:
"So this is what it means to say Phoenix Arizona"
Read and discuss

CD music reviews		9/29:
Autobiographical essay due

CD music reviews

Collect KBAR # 13
10/2:

CD music reviews
Chunk Practice
Paragraph practice		10/3:
Smoke signals
1 section of questions

collect KBAR # 14		10/4:
Smoke signals
1 section of questions

H.W KBAR and review question for Fridays Socratic Seminar		10/5:10/6:

Collect KBAR # 15
Socratic Seminar
10/9:
Essay on short story and not movie
How did the trip to Phoenix affect visitors views of his background and self
Generate an essay structure as a class and then type up for the class		10/10:
Short story essay

Collect KBAR # 16		10/11:
Short story essay
Intro/conclusion		10/12:
Short story essay
Peer editing		10/13:
Essay due: typed double space

Collect KBAR # 17
10/16:
Of mice and Men
Intro Poster Project Table Groups: with a sign on it.
Background research Steinback timeline, On the Move- Migrant Farm workers- map of Salinas valley- living in the 1930s-		10/17:
Poster presentations

Collect KBAR # 18		10/18:
Intro thematic groups
Cornell notes
Read nd discuss chap 1

H.W. CM theme notes		10/19:

Chapter two theme cornell notes		10/20:

Chapter 3
HW- theme notes
Collect KBAR #19
10/23:
Chapter 3 finish
Chapter 4 begin
HW- theme notes		10/24:
Finish chapter 4
character poster
Collect KBAR #20		10/25:
Character poster presentations
Hand out author reasearch project 		10/26:
Chapter 5 and chapter 6

HW theme notes		10/27:
Research in library with San Bruno librarian
Collect KBAR #21
10/30:
OMAM test
OMAM movie		10/31:
OMAM movie
collect KBAR # 20		11/1:
OMAM movie
Socratic seminar		11/2:
Of Mice And Men times writing
Schaffer format sheets
11/3:
Timed writing
Collect KBAR # 23
11/6:
Writing Confrences		11/7:
11/8:
11/9:
11/10:
Legal Holiday
11/13:
Library research for 5 days		11/14:
11/15:
11/16:
11/17:
11/20:
11/21:
11/22:
11/23: Thanksgiving11/24:
Thanksgiving
11/27:11/28:
District Freshman Assesment Multiple Choice test		11/29:
11/30:
12/1:
12/4:
12/5:
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12/11:
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12/13:
12/14:
12/15:
12/18: Finals
12/19: Finals
12/20: Finals
12/21: Christmas12/22:
Christmas



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