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Last updated Wednesday, 9/16/09 at 10:45 p.m.
Once your mind is expanded, it can never go back
"I have never let my
schooling interfere with my education."--Mark Twain
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always
do what you are afraid to do.'"--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will demonstrate all of the following:
Knowledge: Where you recall a definition from memory
Comprehension: Where you give an example of a definition
Application: Where you demonstrate use of a concept
Analysis: Where you compare several works of literature
Synthesis: Where you create your own word problem
Evaluation: Where you justify your own solution
Please attempt to remember, relate, reason, create, and evaluate
with regard to the literature we will study together.
You will perform the exercises of collecting, selecting, reflecting, directing,
and connecting with the material we read and write.
A very important reminder: If you miss a class
because of a Field Trip, Illness, or because of an extra-curricular activity
such as music lessons, it is your responsibility to ask me or a fellow classmate
for the homework assignment--especially if there is a homework worksheet that
you'll need to complete the assignment. I cannot chase after you if you have
missed an assignment; it is your responsibility. Homework and assignments
must be turned in on time: have a classmate bring it in to school on the
day it is due or e-mail it to me by 7:30 a.m. the morning it is due.
Have a question? Leave a message on my voicemail or come see me after school
any day in D-30 and I will make sure you are caught up.
Month:
September
16: Read pgs.
11-20 of Night; open-notebook quiz in two days on the book and vocabulary.
17: We'll create a flow map of plot (sequence of events). Are you using
your Character Chart?
20: Open-notebook quiz on Chapter 1 and vocabulary. Read through page
26 at home. Use Semantic Map to define: conceivable, listless, transgression.
21: Let's talk thematic topic. Use the "Reading as Process"
layout as you read. Read pages 27-35.
22: Let's look for imagery in the autobiography. Read pages 36-43 and
be sure to use "Reading as Process" as your guide.
23: We'll read aloud. Quiz 2 on Day 14 on pages 21-43 plus vocabulary.
24: Prepare for Quiz 2 on Day 14. Essay topic: Are we the masters of
our own destiny? Why or why not? HW: Read pages 45-56. Use Vocab Continuum to
define the following: quarantine, contrary, cynical, evoke, accord.
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Syllabus and Contact
Info sheet for 9th grade English
Bible of Errors
Syllabus and Contact
Info sheet for Public Speaking
NJSpeaking Rubric
To my dear students: Your Interactive
Notebook is your best study guide. Compare it with the notebook of others to
assure you have all notes.--Mr. Z
Snapshot
of authors and eras for 10th grade American Literature: Native
American Lit. (Navajo), Puritan/Colonial Lit. (Bradstreet,
Columbus, Edwards, Taylor, Mather), Revolutionary Lit. (Franklin, Paine), Romantic
Lit. (Bryant, Irving, Poe), American Classic (Jacobs, Hawthorne),
Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau),
Realism (Masters, Twain), Modernism (Fitzgerald, Miller, Williams, Vonnegut).
In addition: Drama (Shakespeare)
My friends, throughout
the year I'm going to ask you frequently what you think about what you're reading
and hearing.
While I am interested in what you know and remember from the books, I am perhaps
more interested in what you think!
Need to contact Mr.
Zacharia? Send an e-mail
now to mzacharia@pthsd.k12.nj.us.
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