How can a person's words, ideas, and actions change the(ir) world?

Welcome to English 9!

Please email me if you have questions at kbrady@latinpcs.org.

Due Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Fahrenheit 451 storyboard due Tuesday. This is a quiz grade. You need as many pictures as scenes you find important, and you need 8 cited quotes. Be neat and creative! Your graded on your effort and efficiency in telling this story through pictures and quotes.

Due Monday, April 29, 2019

Complete the reading guide passed out by Ms. Hamd on Thursday. You need to read and annotate from page 76-page 119 (the break on 119) by Monday and complete the reading guide. The reading guide is a quiz grade.

Due Thursday, April 25, 2019

1 page reflection: Is the erosion of language creating a lack of critical thinking and complex thought? Use article from class if necessary.

Due Wednesday, April 11, 2019

From only reading the first few pages of F451, what role do you think Clarisse McClellan will play in Guy Montag's life? Write a prediction based off of the contextual evidence we talked about and read in class today (pages 1-6).

Due Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Respond in writing: What is censorship? Define it and provide as many examples as you can.

Week of April 1st!

Antigone test - Thursday and Friday!

Thursday - vocab, quotes, context

Friday - essay

Due Thursday - analyze the quotes below.

a.) Who said it?

b.) To whom?

c.) What is being said?

d.) What's the meaning of each in text at large?

1. "But men right often are brought to ruin through their dreams of gain."

2. My own brother And yours I will! If you will not, I will; I shall not prove disloyal."

3. "Serious tidings induce much hesitation."

4. "Nay, never fling away your wits, my son, through liking for a woman."

5. "There lives no greater fear than Anarchy; She ruins states, turns houses out of doors, Breaks up in rout the embattled soldiery; While discipline preserves the multitude Of the ordered host alive. Therefore it is We must assist the cause of order; this Forbids concession to a feminine will; Better be outcast, if we must, of men, Than have it said that a woman worsted us."

6. "Let thy wrath go! Be willing to relent!"

7. "For me no tears are spent, nor any friends lament, The death I die."

8. "And let him vent his spleen on younger men, And learn to keep a tongue more gentle , and A brain more sober, than he carries now."

9. "Woe is me! to none else can they lay it, This guilt, but to me!"

Due Monday, March 11, 2019

Things Fall Apart Collage Project and 3 paragraph write up - typed, MLA format.

Due Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Complete all pages in your packet until Ch 12-13 work.

Write a chapter 12 end-of-chapter prediction (1 paragraph) re Ekwefi following after Ezinma.

Due Monday, January 14, 2019

Complete Archetype page, Okonkwo and Unoka grids, and Proverb page in TFA packet.

*We starred these in class on Friday.

Due Friday, January 11, 2019

1. Final draft of sonnet due.

2. Read and annotate to p 15 of Things Fall Apart and write a 1 paragraph summary (in your book) of what you read, in addition to what we read in class today.

Due Friday, January 11, 2019

Final draft of sonnet due.

Due Thursday, December 20, 2018

Read and annotate to page 213 in Much Ado About Nothing. Reading Quiz on Thursday.

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Due Monday, December 3, 2018

Read and annotate the Charaters Summary and the Plot Summary for Much Ado About Nothing.

Due Thursday, November 29, 2018

Write your first full draft of your free-write sonnet!

Due Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Find 5 shareable facts that you do not know and did not learn today in class about Shakespeare.

Famous Trials Research Paper - Due Dates:

• Monday, 11/12/18 - Sources chosen and background information sheet completed.
• Tuesday, 11/13/18 - Notecards and Quick Outline Due (in Noodletools - due at the end of the double block)
• Tuesday night - finish what you did not finish in class, and write!
• Wednesday - work on your draft! Work, work, work!
• Thursday, 11/15/18 - complete work on your draft
• Friday, 11/16/18 - Draft due
• Monday 11/19/18 - FINAL DRAFT DUE (shared with me in googledocs and a printed copy at the start of class needs to be handed to me!)

RESEARCH LINK: https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1531977

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Due Thursday, November 8, 2018

Go to https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1531977 to pick your Famous Trials court case for your research project. Read the cases. Find one that interests you! Come to class ready to dig into that famous trial led by some bias!

Due Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Finish your study guide. Study it! Test tomorrow!

Due Monday, November 5, 2018

Twelve Angry Men study guide. TEST Tuesday, November 6, 2018.

Due Thursday, November 1, 2018

Write a 2 paragraph response: 1 paragraph explaining a juror's unsound argument with textual evidence, and 1 paragraph explaining a different juror's sound argument with textual evidence to support it.

Due Friday, October 26, 2018

Write a 1 paragraph prediction of Act II of Twelve Angry Men.

Due Thursday, October 25, 2018

Complete the juror bias sheet (naming each juror's potential bias) from Tuesday's classwork and do the Juror 8 reflection on the apartment map sheet.

Due Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Complete any reflections for the Girls Rising video that you have not yet completed. There should be 7!

Due Monday, October 22, 2018

Make sure all of their notes and reflections are hearty AND write Ms. Brady a letter about what watching these films so far has made you think of.

Due Friday, October 19, 2018

From Ms. Brady: "Make sure all of your notes and reflections are hearty" in the Girls Rising movie packet. This includes the pages for Sokha and Wadley.

Due Thursday, October 18, 2018

Make a T chart of evidence that imposes guilt and evidence that imposes a lack of guilt (not guilty) for the boy. A list on each column of the T chart is just fine. Remember what we said about circumstantial evidence! Do your best to see which shows guilt and which shows a lack of guilt.

Due Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Write the facts you know of the witnesses' accounts (man and older woman) according to how the jurors explained them. Write this on the inside cover of your book or on a separate sheet of paper.

Due Monday, October 15, 2018

In a thoughtful, supported, written response, respond to the following:

• For what have you been prejudiced against?

Due Friday, October 12, 2018

In a thoughtful, supported, written response, respond to the following:

• What are your biases?

Due Thursday, October 11, 2018

Annotated Bibliography final draft is due (shared and in hard copy) at the start of class.

Due Friday, October 5, 2018

Choose the three articles for your Ann. Bib, make 3 citation cards in Noodletools, and complete at least 1 paragraph of research for one of your articles in Noodletools.

Due Thursday, October 4, 2018

Choose the three articles for your Ann. Bib, make 3 citation cards in Noodletools, and complete at least 1 paragraph of research for one of your articles in Noodletools.

Due Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Make sure you've chosen your topic for the Malala related Annotated Bibliography.

Due Monday, October 1, 2018

Final draft of Memoir due.

Due Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018

Rough draft of Memoir due - MLA format, size 12 font, double spaced, shared in googledocs

Due Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018

Malala vocabulary story

Due Monday, Sept. 24, 2018

Malala Vocabulary Grid

Due Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018

Complete #1-4 on sentence diagramming sheet (prep phrases and imperatives) passed out in class today.

Due Monday, Sept. 17, 2018

Finish reading and annotating all chapters up to the final chapter of Part 3 in I Am Malala. We will read the final chapter of Part 3 together in class and start Part 4 on Monday.

Due Friday, Sept. 14, 2018

Read and annotate Ch 13-14 in I Am Malala.

Due Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018

Read and annotate Ch 11-12 in I Am Malala.

Due Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018

Read and annotate Ch 5-6 in I Am Malala.

Due Monday, Sept. 10, 2018

Read and annotate Ch 1-2 of I Am Malala.

Due Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018

Write a 2 paragraph response to today's mini Socratic discussion. Paragraph 1: Reflect on our discussion. What are your final thoughts? Who did you most agree with and who did you most disagree with? Paragraph 2: In your opinion, when is rebellion (ever) morally justified?

Due Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018

Finish the LBITU rendition according to the Hero's Journey (from class if you didn't), and create one of your own from any show, movie, play, or book you've read or seen.

Due Friday August 31, 2018

1. Watch this video that I just learned how to post on my wiki!

2. Draw a picture of The Hero's Journey for any movie, book, or TV show you watched or read this summer with explanation of each stage in relation to that movie, book, or show.

Due Thursday August 30, 2018

Sentence diagramming notes - Complete the 3 examples from class (on notes sheet).