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Last updated Monday, 12/29/08 at 1:15 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
cannot be accepted late: 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:
January
5, 6, 7, 8 ,9, 12, 13,
14, 15 , 16, [19 MLK Jr. Day],
20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
9th
Grade English:
12/22: Let's review the outline
of your essay. Let's hear your thesis statements today.
1/5: Review thesis statements on the board. You may meet with me individually
during class.
1/6: Meet with me during class. HW: Typed essay due tomorrow with 4-digit code.
No essay=0 Class Participation grade.
1/7: Peer review. Be sure to have your bible
of errors with you! HW: Revise, retype, resubmit.
1/8: Will peer review. HW: Revise, retype, resubmit. Define the following and
place on Vocabulary Continuum: affable, amenity, condone, deplorable, disarming,
droll, elude. Due ay 74.
1/9: Round-robin reading of essays HW: Submit marked-up copy from today along
with newly cleaned up and typed version and rubric on which you have self-assessed
in pencil! This is a must or lose 10 points!
Public Speaking:
12/22: Reaction Paper from "dream" speeches due today. Media Center
day to find famous speech from a recognized speaker such as Lincoln, Churchill,
Kennedy or Hitler and bring to class. Be prepared to read a portion and identify
if it makes a logical, emotional and/or personal appeal--Due Day 69 (the day
we return from break).
1/5: You will write your own persuasive speech that intentionally uses faulty
thinking (bandwagon effect, faulty assumption, faulty generalization, faulty
cause, and inexpert expert). Where can you include anaphora, alliteration, allusion
and figurative langage? Speech is to be 3-5 minutes long; due Day 73.
1/6: Are most people honest and sincere? I fso, then why aren't we all persuasive?
HW: Write your own persuasive speech--due Day 73.
1/7: Let's create our own similes today! HW: 5-min. speech requires NJSpeaking
Rubric for Day 73.
1/8: Have we gone too far with political correctness? Let's create our own euphemisms
today (e.g. short is now vertically challenged and secretaries are administrative
assistants: let's reword these).
1/9, 1/12, 1/13: Persuasive Speech (with faulty thinking) due today! Be prepared
to write a reaction paper to these speeches.
Movie permission slip
download.
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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