HOMEWORK
Current Text: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
* Click Vocabulary Central to view everything you need to know about they way we do vocab, including all of this year's due dates for homework and quizzes.
NOTE: If you are going to be ABSENT before/after Febuary Break, please let your teachers know IMMEDIATELY, and don't forget to check this page to keep up with your assignments! Thanks.
* Work on memorizing an annotating your poem. In October, you received the directions for the poetry project that culminates in April. Continue working, addressing the other aspects of the project as wel.
* Due Tues. Feb. 14: Decorated Sonnet
* Due Thurs. Feb. 16: CH 9 Vocab
* Thurs. March 1: CH 9 Vocab quiz. Also, be prepared to declare what choice you have made for the creative aspect of the poetry project. Today is the deadline.
* Due Mon. March 5: Romeo and Juliet Essay. Bring your essay the entire week of March 5.
* Due Thurs. March 8: Units 1-9 Vocab Review Exercises and Cumulative Review
* Due Mon. March 12: Romeo and Juliet Essay REVISED with drafts staples underneath.
* Thurs. March 15: Unit 1-9 Vocab quiz.
* Due Thurs. March 22: Unit 10 Vocab
ONGOING TASKS
Vocabulary
Click Vocabulary Central to view everything you need to know about they way we do vocab, including all of this year's due dates for homework and quizzes.
Reading and Reading Quizzes
Please pace yourself to keep up with the reading. Reading always means active reading with notes/annotations. Quizzes may be announced or unannounced. Sometimes they are open-notes or open-book. If you have kept up with the active reading, you're all set.
(These texts are also readable online in case you forget your book at school. Note, these links are a courtesy, a backup plan, but not a substitute for remembering your book. At any moment these links could disappear. I have no control over these sites.)
Of Mice and Men
The House on Mango Street (no online version exists)
Animal Farm
Romeo and Juliet
The Odyssey
The Alchemist
Writing Folder
Please continue to put your writing into your Writing Folder. You NEED to save your work in the folder; otherwise, you will not be able to do the future assignments based on those writing pieces. Consider this your "Greatest Hits Collection."
Other Information
Know the Six Essential Questions for Grade 9
Know the Four CAPT Questions (RICE = React, Interpret, Connect, Evaluate)