Category: English 9 Agenda

Good afternoon everyone, here is the plan for today’s online class, please be aware we are starting at 11:25 due to early dismissal for Capstone presentations. If you are not home yet, I will be recording the class and you can catch up when you get home.

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• No Red Ink-finish parts of speech review, when done begin adjectives and adverbs
• Go over short story summary for “A Mountain Journey”
• figurative-language power point
• similes-metaphors-personification-wkst
• A Mountain Journey Figurative Quote Illustration Question #7- you should have identified 4 examples (1 simile, metaphor, personification, 1 of your choice)  from the story. Using those examples you are going illustrate the LITERAL meaning, give the type, quote the quote, and define the term. I will show you some examples. You can do this digitally, or on paper.
• Rest of class to work on questions and AMJ Figurative Quote
• Hand in questions and vocab on one note.  Create a ‘vocab’ tab in your one note

Good morning everyone, here is the plan for Monday (A-L) and Tuesday (M-Z)

• Short Story Terminology Quiz
• silent reading when done.
• Go over Short Story Summary for “The Paper Bag Princess”
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• How does setting impact the plot and characters? Look for evidence that supports your opinion.

For your “at home classroom”

Monday (M-Z) and Tuesday (A-L)

• Finish No Red Ink
• All About Me Descriptive Writing Project
• Short Story Summary for Paper Bag Princess
• (A-L) if you would like a re-quiz on terms, be prepared for Thursday during one of the flex times

Good afternoon everyone, here is what you will be working on in class, Thursday (A-L) & Friday (M-Z)

• Ms. Henderson will be dropping by to help you choose your silent reading book. You will silent read when you are in class, but I encourage you to read when you are in your at home classroom. You will be completing 1 assignment about your book over the quarter.
• Tool Box of Terms-1abq696 These are the prose terms you need to know for grade 9, then expand every year. You will have a quiz on Monday (A-L)  or Tuesday (M-Z)
• Let’s apply these terms to this little story you may have heard before The paper bag princess pdf-t7jrfi
• For each short story we will complete a Short story summary good
• elements-of-a-plot-diagram

What is descriptive writing?

• Description-2gw5rha
• Practice_writing_short_descriptions-2nihuu9
• Descriptive Writing Powerpoint good
• All About Me – Tate 2020

What is a SWAY? It is a digital presentation tool in your office 365.

Tag #allaboutmeq3

For your ‘at home classroom’

• (A-L) -finish partner paragraph-Friday
• Work on All About Me project-Friday and Weekend-due Wednesday on Teams
• (M-Z)- finish partner paragraph-Thursday
• Work on All About Me project-Friday and Weekend-due Wednesday on Teams

Welcome to English Language Arts 9! Although the format is different, you will still be learning.  We will be using edublog and teams throughout this quarter.

This is the schedule for Tuesday (M-Z) and Wednesday (A-L) Note there is no online class for this week only!

• Land Acknowledgement-Why We Acknowledge?
• First please bookmark this blog, http://myriverside.sd43.bc.ca/etate/category/english-9-agenda/ and let’s do a walk through so you can see where everything is.
• Let’s get organized!  Create a digital folder  called English 9.  You will also need sub folders as we go through the units: Short Stories, Writing, Poetry, Lit Circles
• English 9 Course Outline open and save this in English 9 folder
• Partner Interview: make sure you get enough detail to write a paragraph about this partner. You will notice your partner and you as a channel in teams.  This is a new way of doing this, while maintaining social distancing.
• Please complete this survey for me about you, click here
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• No Red Ink: go to www.noredink.com and sign up for a student account.  Our class code is ‘colorful coat 80′or you can click on this link. Please create a username that is recognizable (not goofy, with your name in it). Once you sign in, you will be asked to select some pop culture preferences (shows, sports, movies, etc.) and this will personalize your learning experience. Our first unit, is a review (hopefully) of the Parts of Speech.

Final day of English 9 Quarter 1! I hope to see you in some form of English 10 next year

• Make sure your presentation is uploaded to teams
• You will have about 3-4 minutes
• Make sure your core competency reflection is uploaded with the correct tag

• If you have not completed your core competency reflection, please do it now and tag with the cc you used
• creativethinkingcc
• communicationcc
• criticalthinkingcc
• socialresponsibilitycc
• personalidentitycc
• personalawarenesscc​
• If you have completed your reflection, you can silent read for 15 min.

You should have completed your “Where I’m From Poem” over the weekend, now you are going to create a PPT or sway to accompany the poem.  Let’s look at the rubric on teams.

You can voice record or just read out your poem tomorrow in class.

• silent reading to start
• Poetry Terminology Quiz
• Finish the rest of Lit Project Presentations
• Poetry Package-Where I’m From Poem-due Monday
• We will look at my example, and some other student ones
• You will be turning this into a visual presentation using SWAY or PPT. You can record your voice, or read out loud (Tuesday)
• Core Competency reflection: you can use this project as your artifact, or look at the entire quarter of English 9.

  Make sure your reflection is tagged with the appropriate tag, you may use more than one:

  • creativethinkingcc
  • communicationcc
  • criticalthinkingcc
  • socialresponsibilitycc
  • personalidentitycc
  • personalawarenesscc

Please ensure your project is posted on your blog with the tag: litproject & category English 9

You should be working on your personification poem also

Core Competency reflection: you can use this project as your artifact, or look at the entire quarter of English 9.

Make sure your reflection is tagged with the appropriate tag, you may use more than one:

• creativethinkingcc
• communicationcc
• criticalthinkingcc
• socialresponsibilitycc
• personalidentitycc
• personalawarenesscc

• silent reading-15 min
• Poetry- you should have completed Questions 1-6 for the poem, “Identity” for home work last night
• Question 7- Freedom vs Entrapment Poem
• Pair Work-Using the poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes, compare their two poems, compare and contrast.

1:45-2:15 Remembrance Day Assembly

• phones and devices off and away
• Poppies on left side, over heart.

• Please check out the new “poetry” folder on teams, everything you need is there.
• Silent reading
• Poetry Quiz on these terms Thursday
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• Identifying Poetic Devices (teams)
• Poetry Package 9 (teams)-figurative language reveiw
• Options for English 10