Week of January 26th

Do You Plan to Attend Tutoring???
ATTENTION STUDENTS...tutoring shuttles will resume on Monday February 2, 2015 at 5:00 PM. The buses will run on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday only. The Wednesday shuttle is reserved only for students enrolled in the NovaNet program. Students must report to their teacher by 3:40 and must remain with that teacher until 5:00 PM in order to receive a bus pass. If students are tardy to tutorial, they will not be admitted and will not receive a bus pass. They will be responsible for their own transportation. 


In 9th Lit this week...

PTSA OPEN HOUSE  @ 6:30 pm January 29, 2015. Please come out and bring your parents!!!

If you are selected to attend the very special field trip to AMC Phipps Plaza to see Selma on February 13, 2015, please return your permission slip and $10.00 as soon as possible. Students will need to bring extra money for lunch.


Monday----Finishing up "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber: open book test & film analysis

Tuesday---Wednesday---"Thank You Mam" by Langston Hughes: characterization notes, read selection, questions &textual evidence, character report cards,student created movie, i-respond quiz, meet the author

Thursday---Friday---"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl: meet the author, review irony, partner read selection, rewrite ending, view film version, story assessment

Reminders:
Binder Check Wednesday
Constructed Response Revisions  Due Friday

Purchase a copy of Romeo & Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare ASAP

Week of January 20, 2015

Unit 1: Is Conflict Necessary?

This unit, the first of four, uses the short story as the vehicle for reviewing common literary elements, as well as for appreciating the art of great storytelling. This unit enables students to confirm and hone a common understanding of important literary elements, as well as a shared vocabulary for discussing them. Each story may be used to focus especially on a particular element, such as point of view or symbolism. 

Essential Questions:

• Why do we tell stories?
• Why is it important to know and understand the elements of fictional text?
• How do literary elements (i.e., flashback, plot, symbol, suspense, characterization, irony, setting, tone/mood, theme, imagery, point-of-view) play a part in the essence and workings of a short story.

Standards:

• RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• RL.9-10.5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
• W.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
• SL.9-10.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
• L.9-10.5:Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Vocabulary to Review:

• Character, characterization
• Figurative language
• Irony (e.g., dramatic, situational, verbal)
• Narrator
• Parable
• Plot (i.e., exposition, rising action, crisis/climax, falling action, resolution/denouement)
• Point of view
• Sensory imagery
• Setting
• Style
• Symbol, symbolism
• Theme
• Tone
• Mood

1/21- "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Read and respond to literature selection. 

1/22- Close Analysis of the short story selection

1/23- film vs short story analysis

Tutoring:

Tutoring is available DAILY from 7:50 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. in room 901. I will also offer tutoring after school on Tuesday and Thursdays by appointment. 

Second Semester Open House

Please join us here at PHS for our second semester PTSA Open House January 29, 2015 at 6:30 pm.