Honors English 9 1/25 - 1/29

Monday 1/25

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Vocab Quiz 1
2. Business: Organization Checks for any of the three items can be done at any time!
3.
Reader's Workshop
    a.
Difficulties with the text & your plan for dealing with them (literacy strategies).
    b. Assign: Find five challenging vocabulary words from the book through Chapter 1.
        *define, part of speech, sentence from book
    c.
Background Notes on Romanticism, Gothic Lit.
    d. Distribute Guiding Questions handout.
        *We'll work on these tomorrow.
4. HW: 5 Challenging Vocab Words from Frankenstein.

Tuesday 1/26

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: none
2.
Business
    a. Turn in Vocab from Frankenstein.
    b. Organization Checks for any of the three items can be done at any time!

3.
Reader's Workshop
    a. Work on page one of
Guiding Questions handout.
    b. Discuss questions.
    c. Assign: Read Chapters 2 & 3 using your lit strategies.

4. HW: Read Chapters 2 & 3 using your lit strategies.

Wednesday 1/27 - Shortened Periods - District Late Start

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Word of the Day: countenance
2.
Business: Organization Checks for any of the three items can be done at any time!
3.
Reader's Workshop
   
SSR - Frankenstein - through Chapter 5.
4. HW:
Read Frankie through Chapter 5.

Thursday 1/28

 

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Word of the Day: indefatigable
2. Business:
Organization Checks for any of the three items can be done at any time!
3. Reader's Workshop

    a. Discuss the book to this point - How did we get to the creation of the monster?  What makes VF tick?
    b.
Assign: Alternate Study Guide Q's 11-32.
    c. Q: How is(are) your literacy strategy(ies) holding up to the questioning?

4. HW: Finish Alternate Study Guide Q's 11-32.

 

Friday 1/29

 

1. Journal/Bell-Ringer: Word of the Day: chimerical
2. Business:
Organization Checks for any of the three items can be done at any time!
3.
Reader's Workshop
    Oral Reading - Chapters 6 to as far as we can.

4. HW: Read Frankie through Chapter 10.