The Weeks of September 10, 2012 and September 17, 2012

Assignments and due dates for "Marriage is a Private Affair" and Real Time:

"Marriage is a Private Affair"  - If not finished during class on Wednesday, please finish the questions for homework.  It does count as a quiz grade.

Real Time due dates:
Pages 1-middle of 22 due on Monday, Sept. 17 (chart should be completed, too!)
Pages 22-56 is due Wednesday, Sept. 19 (handout should be completed, too!)

If you have an IPod/MP3 player and headphones, you may bring them to class on Wednesday, Sept. 19 and Thursday, Sept. 20.  You will not be able to go to your locker during the class period to get them.  You must have them with you when you walk in the door.

Please have Real Time with you each day you come to my class.   If you do not have it with you, it will be considered an unprepared.

Unit 1: September 2012

Welcome 9 CP-A Students!

As 9^th grade English students, you will be exposed to many different cultures this year through films, literary works, and nonfiction.  What can learn from reading articles and stories and from viewing films about different cultures?   Why is it so important for young students in today’s society to be exposed to these different cultures?  Although both of these questions will be revisited throughout the year, it is how I would like to begin your first marking period of 9^th grade English.

You will be using the film we will be watching, the articles we will be reviewing, the short story and novel we will be reading this marking period to help answer the above questions.  Eventually, you will answer the question in a formal thesis paper.  All the tools you will need to be a successful high school English student will be given to you during the first marking period.

The following are the items we will be working on over the next marking period:

• ·         Quote Analysis

• ·         Critical Thinking Skills

• ·         Writing Skills (Thesis Statements, Paragraph Organization, MLA format, Citations, Works Cited Page, etc.)

To learn and strengthen these skills we will use the following for our discussions:

• ·          “Marriage is a Private Affair” and other selections from World Literature: An Anthology of Great Short Stories, Drama, and Poetry

• ·         Real Time

• ·         Osama

• ·         2012 summer and fall current event articles from around the world

• ·         Nonfiction Sample

Exam Review

9 Academic Exam Review

I.  Literary Terms, Poetic Devices, and Dramatic Conventions (20 Points)

Vignette

Personification

Imagery

Synesthesia

Oxymoron

Malapropism

Soliloquy

Aside

Concealment

Sonnet

Couplet

Prose

Blank Verse

Fable

Satire

Allegory

Propaganda

Euphemism

Syntax

Diction

II.        Formal Paper – All thesis paper rules apply!  (60 points)

Be familiar with the works listed below.  You should know the characters, the plot, and the themes of each work.

·         The House on Mango Street

·         Animal Farm

·         Hedda Gabler

·         A Doll House

·         Romeo and Juliet

·         Whale Rider

·         Rabbit-Proof Fence

III.       Informal Writing Prompt (20 Points)

Review the characters you have met during the second semester of 9 Academic English.  Think about what motivates each of them, how they each act in certain situations, how they treat others, etc.  This section has something do with the personalities of the characters from the following works:

·         Hedda Gabler

·         A Doll’s House

·         The House on Mango Street

·         Rabbit-Proof Fence

·         Whale Rider

Review PowerPoint presentations, handouts, old tests and quizzes, and essays/log entries.  All will help refresh your memory about the works studied the second semester of the 9 Honors Course.  The terms listed on the previous page are all terms found on the PowerPoint presentations for Romeo and Juliet, The House on Mango Street, and Animal Farm. 

Animal Farm

Please review the calendar you received in class.  The calendar provides you with all of the reading due dates for Animal Farm.  If  you do not have your calendar with you, please note the due dates listed below:

Chapters 1-3 for Wednesday,May 23
Chapters 4&5 for Friday, May 25
Chapters 6 &7 for Tuesday, May29
Chapter 8& 9 for Thursday, May 31
Chapter 10 for Monday, June 1

Objective End Test:  Tuesday, June 5

Thesis Paper - Due Tuesday, May 22

THESIS PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Length: 

3-4  typed pages (double-spaced, 1”  margins, 12 Font, Times New Roman, MLA Heading)

Type of Thesis Paper: 

Comparison/Contrast – Decide what topic you would like to use for your comparison/contrast thesis paper.  Quotes (at least 2 per work) and specific examples from the works are to be used to support every point you are making.

Choose at least three out of the four works to use in the paper:

Hedda Gabler  (Norway) or A Doll's House

Whale Rider (New Zealand)

Romeo and Juliet (Women of the Middle Ages in England)

The House on Mango Street (Latino women in America)

Choose one of the topics below to use as for your thesis paper:

1.            Who is the most mature teenage girl – Paikea, Juliet, or Esperanza? 

Compare the maturity of the young female characters in Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and House on Mango Street and then compare their behavior with the behavior of teenage girls today. 

2.            Who has it worse by the way they are treated by men in their lives – Hedda, Paikea, or Esperanza’s friends on Mango Street? 

Compare the treatment of women by the men in their lives by using Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and The House on Mango Street and compare these relationships to the relationships we see in today’s society.

3.            Which teens have hardest teen issues to deal with in their lives – Romeo and Juliet, Esperanza and her friends, or Paikea and Hemi? 

Compare the issues (peer pressure, parental pressure, teenage romance, etc.) teens face in Romeo and Juliet, The House on Mango Street, and Whale Rider to the issues of today’s teens.

               

4.            Which leading male figurehead is put under the tough societal conditions and has handled it as gracefully as possible – George Tesman, Koro, or Father Capulet and Father Montague?

Compare the behavior/role of the men in charge of the household in Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, and Romeo and Juliet, and compare them to men in today’s society. 

 

I.  Create the Thesis Statement

II. Create the Organization Outline for the body of the paper

III. Create a Works Cited Page

Using your noodletools account, create your works cited page.  You must use the noodletools account via High Point Regional. 

IV. Write the Rough Draft

This is not to be just a summary of each work.  You are to defend your thesis statement with a balance of summary, examples, quotes, and commentary.  I suggest you write the paper first and then add the quotes later to help defend what you have said. Remember:  Two quotes per work.

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V. Peer Evaluation

VI. Revise, edit, and develop...

VII.  Final Draft submitted to turnitin.com by 12PM on Tuesday, May 22.

The final draft is worth 55 points:  25 Points for Content & 20 Points for Conventions.

APRIL/MAY 2012

The class will spend Monday, April 16 in the library to complete the Mythology project and to be able to print it out with the color printer.  You will need to print out a copy for each of your group members in preparation for the sharing of the myths on Wednesday, April 18.

On Tuesday, April 17, the 9 Academic class will receive the background information necessary to understand and appreciate Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler.  As we read Hedda Gabler in class, you will be asked to complete overnight homework assignments that will help with our discussion of the play.  You will also be completing an in-class writing and an objective test to go along with the play.  If time permits, we may also view movie clips of another play by Ibsen - A Doll House.

As we move into May, you will be required to complete a comparison/contrast thesis paper for the unit we are currently completing - Family Relationships and the Role Family Members in Different Cultures.  This will be a major grade for the marking period. 

Just a reminder:  The fourth marking period seems go by very quickly.  Therefore, every homework assignment, every writing assignment, and every test are very important! 

Creation Myths from around the World

World Mythology:  An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics (25 Points)

You are going to be the teacher of one of the creation myths listed below.  You will be responsible for presenting a chosen myth to a small group of students.  The group members have not read your myth.  Therefore, you are the expert on your chosen myth.  Provide them with the significant characters, details, etc. that are important to the understanding of your creation myth.  Be creative!

The Creation, Death, and Rebirth of the Universe (India) Pages 291-295

The Creation of the Universe and Human Beings (China) Pages 324-329

The Creation Cycle (New Zealand – Polynesia/Maori) Pages 351-359

The Creation, Death, and Rebirth of the Universe (Northern Europe) Pages 459-466

The Creation of the Universe and Ife (Nigeria—Yoruba) Pages 509-514

The Origin of Life and Fire (Zaire-Boshongo/Bakuba) Pages 515-517

The Creation (Guatemala—Maya) Pages 595-599

1.  Create a Brochure/Newsletter for your presentation.  The brochure/newsletter should contain the following:

• The newsletter title or the opening page of your brochure should have the title of the myth and your name, date, and period

• Provide information to the students pertaining to the Historical Background and Appeal and Value sections before presenting your myth

• Provide a map showing the location from where the myth originated

• Provide a list of the main characters in your myth (if possible)

• Provide the important events/details of your myth – What do we learn?

• Provide the Questions for Response, Discussion, and Analysis from the end of the myth and a response for each.  You only have to pick three questions to answer.

The brochure/newsletter should be visually appealing and informative.

2.  Create a comic strip recapping the major events of your myth and provide the important characters, too.  This can be a part of your brochure/newsletter – you may have to draw it by hand after you finish the rest of the brochure.  If you don’t like this idea – you may create a 6 panel comic strip on a separate piece of paper.