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Homework Expectations:
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There will be time in class to complete the vast majority of assignments. The keys to success are diligence and attentiveness to detail. Homework will rarely be assigned, but if time in class is not used effectively, students will need to take their work home to be completed by the given due dates. An assignment may be due at the end of a class period; if I do not receive it before you leave that class period, it will be marked late (-5 points/day) even if you submit it at the beginning of our next class.
Announcements
Students, I am usually available to meet during Conference. If you would like to meet with me, please let me know the day before.
Assignments
FOURTH QUARTER
FOURTH QUARTER
UPCOMING:
Essay 7 Drafting Cycle: begins Friday, 5/3
Final Grammar Quiz: Monday, 5/20
Essay 7 Final Draft: due Tuesday, 5/21 (can be turned in anytime before; please include all Invention and Arrangement work in your submission)
COLLECTED:
Essay 7 Invention: due beginning of class, Thursday, April 11 (at least 25 points in both A and N columns, all Invention exercises complete: Comparison, Definition, Circumstance, Relation, Testimony) for a completion grade
Grammar Quiz: Wednesday, April 16
Essay 7 ANI Chart & Outline: due beginning of class, Monday, April 29 (all Invention work, including Topic worksheets, and all Arrangement work--use your rubric as your checklist to make sure you have everything)
Simile and Metaphor Practice Worksheet: due Friday, 5/10
4/12/24 We watched Charlton Heston's rendering of the iconic "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The 9th graders used argument trackers to build a picture of Mark Antony's argument, identify the rhetorical devices he employs as well as the fallacies he commits.
3/19/24 We watched Abbott and Costello do their legendary bit "Who's on First?" to witness how the logical fallacy of equivocation is at the heart of most comedy.
THIRd quarter
THIRd quarter
COLLECTED:
Deductive Reasoning Packet - due for a completion grade Monday, 1/22
Final Draft of Essay 5 - due beginning of class, Monday, 1/29 (please submit your deductive reasoning packet as well)
ANI Chart and Topic Charts for Essay 6 filled - due for a completion grade beginning of class Monday, 2/12 (at least 22 points in both Affirmative and Negative columns, for a total of at least 44 points; Comparison charts, Definition chart, Circumstance chart)
Essay 6 ANI Chart/Outline - due beginning of class, Monday 2/26
Drafting Cycle for Essay 6 - begins Wednesday, 2/28
Grammar Quiz - POSTPONED to Monday, 3/4. Please plan to attend the grammar tutoring session being offered to all 9th graders on Friday, 3/1 in Room 154 if you are concerned you are not ready for this quiz.
Group A: Compound Components
Group B: Dependent Clauses Functioning as Adverbs or Nouns
Final Draft of Essay 6 - due Thursday, 3/7, end of class [Simile (including worksheet) is postponed to after the break!]
second quarter
second quarter
Collected:
Final Draft of Essay 3 - Monday, October 30 : all Invention, Arrangement and Elocution items (including all drafts) should be included in your submission and stapled to your original rubric. Use your rubric as a checklist to make sure you are delivering all items.
Sorted ANI Chart for Essay 4 - must be complete by end of class Monday, November 6 for a completion grade
Grammar Quiz - Friday, November 10 (If you missed this due to an absence, please schedule tutoring with me on Monday 11/13 or Wednesday 11/15. It's quick!)
ANI Chart & Outline for Essay 4 - beginning of class Monday, November 13--Use your rubric as a checklist to make sure you are including everything. Don't forget your Comparison Chart and your Amplification Worksheet.
Essay 4 Drafting/Editing - Monday 11/27 will be a workshop day. Any further work on Essay 4 needs to be completed on your own time.
Essay 4 Final Draft Delivery - Beginning of class Thursday, 11/29: all Invention, Arrangement and Elocution items (including all drafts) should be included in your submission and stapled to your original Essay 4 rubric. Use your rubric as a checklist to make sure you are delivering all items.
ANI Chart for Essay 5 - 18 points in both A and N columns, complete by beginning of class Thursday, December 14 for a completion grade
Open-Note Grammar Quiz - Friday, December 15
Sorted ANI Chart & Outline for Essay 5 - due Friday, 12/22 (Use your rubric as a checklist to make sure you include everything.)
first quarter
first quarter
Collected:
Sorted ANI Chart and Outline for Essay 2: 1) develop an Issue and create/fill an ANI chart on a character/decision from Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, or the life of Abraham, Moses or the Kings of Israel (from the Western Civ primary source book) with at least 10 points each in A and N columns. 2) Sort your ANI Chart into categories (both A and N columns). 3) Take a side, establish your thesis, and build your outline according to the Introductory Persuasive Essay Outline template. Deadline has been extended to beginning of class on Monday, 10/2
Rough draft of Essay 2 should be completed by beginning of class on either Wednesday, 10/3 (7th hour) or Thursday, 10/4 (5th hour). Highlighted Outline-to-Essay Model
Final Draft of Essay 2 - due Monday, October 9 (beginning of class)
-5 points for each day late (I won't come looking for your essay; you are responsible to turn it in with all previous invention, arrangement and elocution work and the original rubric stapled on top)
Grammar Quiz - Friday, October 12
ANI Chart and Outline for Essay 3 - Tuesday, October 17 (end of class) Basic Persuasive Essay with Exordium template
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