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Honors 9th Lit & Comp Week #4 (1/27-31)

Monday, January 27, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit vocab workbook unit 8
3. Watch Part I of The Odyssey
   1. Write 1 paragraph describing your favorite or least favorite scene from the movie & explain.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Read The Odyssey
   1. The Return of Odysseus
   2. Argos
   3. The Suitors
   4. Penelope
3. Answer guided reading questions

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Read The Odyssey
   1. The Challenge
   2. Odysseus’s Revenge
   3. Penelope’s Test
3. Answer guided reading questions

Thursday, January 30, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Hero’s Journey & The Odyssey
3. Watch part II of The Odyssey

Friday, January 31, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Vocab unit 8 quiz

American Lit Week #4 (1/27-31)

Monday, January 27, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit vocab workbook unit 8
3. Discuss Thoreau, MLK, and part 1 of The Glass Castle
4. Read The Glass Castle (TGC) 9-28
   1. Answer part 2 #1 DQs

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit part 2 #1 DQs
3. Read TGC p. 29-57
   1. Answer part 2 #2 DQs

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit part 2 #2 DQs
3. Read TGC p. 58-90
   1. Answer part 2 #3 DQs

Thursday, January 30, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Mini-Research activity/Evaluating online resources
   1. Download TGC Mini Research & Crap Test
   2. Download Crap Detection

Friday, January 31, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit part 2 #3 DQs
3. Vocab unit 8 quiz

Honors 9th Lit & Comp Week #3 (1/20-24)

Monday, January 20, 2020

1. MLK Day—No School

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

1. Earwood was absent
2. Finish short story project (due tomorrow)
3. Begin reading The Odyssey with cloze notes
   1. The Opening
   2. Sailing from Troy
   3. The Lotus-Eaters
   4. The Cyclops
4. Vocab workbook unit 8 due Monday (1/27)

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Finish reading sections from The Odyssey with cloze notes

Thursday, January 23, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Discuss The Odyssey so far & hubris
3. Match the plot with the hero’s journey
4. Continue reading The Odyssey with cloze notes
   1. The Land of the Dead

Friday, January 24, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Continue reading The Odyssey with cloze notes
   1. The Sirens
   2. Scylla & Charybdis
   3. The Cattle of the Sun God

American Lit Week #3 (1/20-24)

Monday, January 20, 2020

1. MLK Day—No School

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

1. Earwood was absent
2. Read excerpt from Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
   1. Highlight 10 connotative words
3. Answer text-dependent questions
4. Vocab unit 8 workbook due Monday (1/27)

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”
   1. Download CommonLit Excerpt from Civil Disobedience
3. MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (p. 1109)
   1. Answer text-dependent questions
   2. Download Letter from Birmingham Jail Questions

Thursday, January 23, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Finish & submit Thoreau & MLK questions
   1. Download MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail
   2. Download 1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged
3. The Glass Castle anticipation guide

Friday, January 24, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. The Glass Castle anticipation guide due
3. Read The Glass Castle part I
   1. Answer guided reading questions

Honors 9th Lit & Comp Week #2 (1/13-17)

Monday, January 13, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Submit gods & goddesses webquest to turnitin.com by 11:59pm tonight
3. Begin watching Myths & Monsters: The Hero’s Journey with cloze notes

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Finish watching Myths & Monsters with cloze notes
3. Begin mythology short story project

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. CTLS/Touchstone Q3 in lab 930
3. Work on mythology short story project

Thursday, January 16, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Review PSAT questions
3. Work on mythology short story project

Friday, January 17, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Vocab unit 7 quiz
3. PSAT test corrections

American Lit Week #2 (1/13-17)

Monday, January 13, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Read & discuss Poe & Thoreau with sample exemplary responses
   1. https://clever.com/in/cobb 
3. Poetry Terms, Dickinson biography, and begin reading Dickinson poetry
   1. Download Dickinson Poetry Definitions & Questions

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. CTLS/Touchstone Q3 in lab 930
3. Work on Dickinson poems from yesterday
   1. Download Dickinson Stop for Death & Fly Buzz Qs
   2. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45703/i-heard-a-fly-buzz-when-i-died-591 
   3. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479 

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Emily Dickinson poetry: “I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died” & "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" with questions & TP-CASTT Analysis

Thursday, January 16, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Review PSAT questions
3. Dickinson "Some Keep the Sabbath" with questions & synthesis paragraph

Friday, January 17, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Vocab unit 7 quiz
3. PSAT test corrections

Honors 9th gods & goddesses webquest

Download Gods & Goddesses Web Quest Type-In

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Pocket Points for Spring 2020

Honors 9th Lit & Comp Week #1 (1/6-10)

Monday, January 6, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Review syllabus
3. Reflect on fall & set a goal for spring

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Vocab Level E unit 7

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Read “A Short History of Greek and Roman Myth: Gods, Goddesses and Heroes” with questions
3. Begin Greek mythology webquest

Thursday, January 9, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Continue Greek Mythology webquest

Friday, January 10, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Continue Greek Mythology webquest & submit to turnitin.com by Sunday evening at 11:59pm.

American Lit Week #1 (1/6-10)

**Please purchase a HARD copy of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle (Link to purchase on Amazon)**

Monday, January 6, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Spring syllabus review
3. Reflect on fall & set a goal for spring

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Vocab level F unit 7

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Grade vocab level F unit 7
3. Intro to Transcendentalism & Notes
4. Begin reading Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” with questions

Thursday, January 9, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Finish & submit “The Man of the Crowd”
3. Read excerpt from Thoreau’s Walden “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” with questions

Friday, January 10, 2020

1. Root Word of the Day
2. Finish & submit excerpt from Thoreau’s Walden “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” with questions
3. Write a paragraph which compares the ways in which Thoreau and the old man in Poe’s story address the realities of life. What do their approaches reveal about their character?