Final

December 11, 2019

Today you will take the final.

Make sure to answer all multiple choice questions and the free response.

You may listen to music, but it must be at a reasonable volume. 

When you finish, you may work on something silently.

Make sure you do not change screens while taking the benchmark.  

Please log in to usatestprep and begin. 

Good luck!

Battle Royale

December 10, 2019

Standards

All

Starter

Create a meme based on any story we read this year.

We will have a gallery walk to show off your creations.

Meme Creator

Vocabulary 

Word;Characterization

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

Your Definition: 

Activity: What does STEAL stand for?

Activity

1. Battle Royale

Today we will play a projector game through usatestprep.

Create teams to work with for the game. 

Closure

What is one thing you realized playing the game?

Think or Swim

December 9, 2019

Standards

All

Starter

Go to PowerSchools and check what your current grade is in the class.

Reflect on your performance this quarter.

Write down what you are proud of and what you would do differently.

Additionally, check to see if there is anything you want to revise or submit.

All revisions are due on December 13.  

Vocabulary 

Word;Characterization

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

Your Definition: 

Activity: What does STEAL stand for?

Activity

1.  Gallery Walk

We will have a gallery walk to view the characterization from last week. 

2. Think or Swim

Today we will play a projector game through usatestprep.

Create teams to work with for the game. 

Closure

What is one thing you realized playing the game?

Characterization in the Fall of the House of Usher

December 6, 2019

Standards

RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

L.9-10.4 Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Obj: I can analyze complex characters.

I can determine the meaning of words using context clues. 

Starter

Free Write Friday 

Vocabulary 

Word;Characterization

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

Your Definition: 

Activity: What does STEAL stand for?

Activity

1.  Fall of the House of Usher 

Read the story individually or with a partner.

Pay attention to characterization.

Class Discussion Questions

In a storyboard or concept map, create what one of the characters look like.

Then include the following: 

Description of the Appearance

Description of the Personality

Relation to Others

Important Quotes with Explanations

You should have at least three examples for each 

Closure

How confident do you feel identifying characterization?

Fall of the House of Usher

December 5, 2019

Standards

RL.9-10.3 Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

L.9-10.4 Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Obj: I can analyze complex characters.

I can determine the meaning of words using context clues. 

Starter

What's Going on in This Picture?

• What is going on in this picture?

• What do you see that makes you say that?

• What more can you find?

Vocabulary 

Word;Figurative Language 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:language that is different from the literal.

Your Definition: 

Activity: How confident do you feel identifying and creating figurative language?

Activity

1.  Fall of the House of Usher 

Read the story individually or with a partner.

Pay attention to characterization.

Class Discussion Questions

In a storyboard create what one of the characters look like.

Then include the following: 

Description of the Appearance

Description of the Personality

Relation to Others

Important Quotes with Explanations

You should have at least three examples for each 

Closure

Based on TPCASTT what is the easiest part?

most difficult?

Annabel Lee

December 4, 2019

Standards

L.9-10.4 Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Obj: I can determine the meaning of words using context clues. 

Starter

Rhetorical Speeches Returned and Remediated

I will give you 15 minutes to go over your rubric and begin making revisions to your project.
This will allow you to ask me any questions who may have.

Vocabulary 

Word;Figurative Language 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:language that is different from the literal.

Your Definition: 

Activity: How confident do you feel identifying and creating figurative language?

Activity

1.  TPCASTT Analysis

Individually, analyze the poem Annabel Lee by Poe.

Additionally, identify the meaning of the following words: 

seraph

sepulchre

2.  Fall of the House of Usher 

Read the story individually or with a partner.

Pay attention to characterization.

Class Discussion Questions

In a storyboard create what one of the characters look like.

Then include the following: 

Description of the Appearance

Description of the Personality

Relation to Others

Important Quotes with Explanations

You should have at least three examples for each 

Closure

Based on TPCASTT what is the easiest part?

most difficult?

Poetry and Figurative Language

December 3, 2019

Standards

L.9-10.4 Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Obj: I can determine the meaning of words using context clues. 

Starter

Identify one example of figurative language in the poem below. 

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew

from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete

when no one else ever cared.

Vocabulary 

Word;Figurative Language 

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition:language that is different from the literal.

Your Definition: 

Activity: How confident do you feel identifying and creating figurative language?

Activity

1.  Figurative Language Creation

Find an image that you like.

(This can be from a magazine or online)

Based on that image you must create the following examples: 

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification

Alliteration

Imagery

2.  TPCASTT Analysis

Individually, analyze the poem Annabel Lee by Poe.

Additionally, identify the meaning of the following words: 

seraph

sepulchre

Closure

Based on TPCASTT what is the easiest part?

most difficult?

Context Clues

December 2, 2019

Standards

L.9-10.4 Determine and/or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies: context clues, word parts, word relationships, and reference materials.

Obj: I can determine the meaning of words using context clues. 

Starter

Read the poem below and determine what Jabberwocky means.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

      Long time the manxome foe he sought—

So rested he by the Tumtum tree

      And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

      And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

      He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

      He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

Vocabulary 

Word; Context Clues

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: clues an author gives you to determine meaning of unknown words

Your Definition: 

Activity: How confident do you feel using context clues?

Activity: 

1.  Sophia Notes

Take notes on the slide show linked above.

Then, complete the activities that are included for practice. 

2.  The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 

Read the poem and complete a TPCASTT analysis.

Additionally, determine the meaning of the following words: 

Lore

Surcease

Countenance

Ominous

Nepenthe 

Closure

What was the theme of the poem?

Remediation

November 26, 2019

Standards

RL 9-10.6-.17

RI 9-10.3, .6

W9-10.1

Starter

Free Write Tuesday

1.  Benchmark Remediation 

As a class we will review the three most commonly missed questions from the benchmark.

Then, you will have time to work on the suggested practice questions.

Remember, you must complete both sets to earn credit towards the remediation.

The suggested practice is due Tuesday, December 3. 

If you finish early you may work on anything you would like to revise.

Closure 

How confident do you feel identifying rhetoric using the self- evaluation rubric?

Benchmark 11/25

November 25, 2019

Standards

RL 9-10.6-.17

RI 9-10.3, .6

W9-10.1

Starter

“Cute” pictures of baby animals, including puppies and kittens, can have powerful effects on attention and concentration, psychological scientists at Hiroshima University in Japan have found (psychologicalscience.org).

Find a cute picture to help improve focus for your benchmark. 

Activity: 

1.  Presentations

We will watch the three speeches we did not see on Friday.

2.  Benchmark 11/25

usatestprep.com

Click on the link above.

The school ID is lee59.

If you need help with your username and password please let me know.

You will then see the assignment labeled benchmark 11/25.

Complete all the multiple choice questions and free response.

You are required to receive a minimum score of 80%.

If you do not receive this score, you will be required to complete remediation.

Remediation will be assigned after the free response is graded and will be posted tomorrow. 

You have the entire class period to take the benchmark.

If you finish early, remain silent and work on something else. 

Closure: 

How confident do you feel identifying rhetoric at the end of this unit?

Speech Presentations

November 22, 2019

RI.9-10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.

Objective

I can determine an author's purpose and analyze how they use rhetoric.

Starter

Free Write Friday 

Vocabulary

Word: Presentation

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a speech or talk in which a new product, idea, or piece of work is shown and explained to an audience.

Your Definition: 

Activity: What are you most proud of for your presentation?

Activity

1.  Speech Presentations

Please make sure to share all parts of the project with me.

This includes: 

Analysis

Context Research

Rhetoric Chart

Speech Script with Rhetoric Identified

Video Shared in FlipGrid

For your presentation share why you picked the speech and the topic.

During the presentations make sure to pay attention.

Write down a plus and delta for at least five people.

Closure

Rhetoric Project Reflection

Select one question from each section to answer based on your speech.