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Worksheets and rubrics for Mr. Zacharia's classes

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 ought not to be accepted more than one day late. Have a question? E-mail me, leave a message on my voicemail, or come see me after school in room D-30 and I will make sure you are caught up.

• Interactive Notebooks
• Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for 9th grade
• PHHS Grade 9 Outline of Writing Skills (Microsoft Exel)
  
• Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for Public Speaking

• Bible of Errors
• Semantic Mapping
• Vocabulary Continuum

• Creating Your Portfolio (Microsoft Word): A 5-step process for the collection, selection, reflection, direction, and connection of artifacts for your student portfolio.

• Literary Summary Guide (Microsoft Word), please click here.
• Reading as Process Worksheet
• Elements of the Short Story

• Collage rubric (Microsoft Word), please click here.

• Analytical Body Paragraph Structure (Microsoft Word)
• Flow Chart of A+ Essay Structure

• Persuasive essay rubric (Microsoft Word).

• PowerPoint Presentation rubric (Microsoft Word)

• Language Arts Persuasive speech rubric (Microsoft Word).

• How to write a 5-paragraph essay (Microsoft Word): Click here to read a more detailed explanation of essay elements.

• Want a Web site that offers step-by-step inspiration as well as provides focus for your efforts? Click here to visit http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/.
• PowerPoint on How to Write an A+ Essay
• A Guideline for Writing Your Research Paper, Including Timeline (Microsoft Word): Click here to read a friendly version of paper elements; view timeline.

• Precis Writing Exercise

• Here's a web site that will actually (in theory, anyway!) create your citations with you! http://citationmachine.net/
• Essay checklist (Microsoft Word): Click here to view a one-page itemized roster of what to include in your essay.

• Short Story (Maupassant, Henry and Poe) Comparison Essay (Microsoft Word)
• The Comma, The Comma II, The Semicolon and The Semicolon II.
• Grammar & Usage Review--agreement, Grammar & Usage Review II--agreement, Grammar & Usage Review III--agreement, Grammar & Usage Review IV-agreement.
• Choice of Essay Prompts: "The Most Dangerous Game" or "The Open Window."
• Parody of "Cask of Amontillado" might still be at http://music.clevver.com/video/15084/toby-keith-a-little-too-late-300.php
• Overview of The Odyssey.
• HSPA-styled writing prompt II
• Rubric for 9th grade Essay
• Mockingbird Worksheet and Homework for chapters 4-7
• Mockingbird Worksheet and Homework for chapters 12-17

• Rubrics for assignments: Art Imitates Life, Map Plot, or Acting Out a Scene
• Rubric for Group Presentation
• Rubric for individual Presentation (puppet show, interpretive dance, etc.)
• Rubric for Shakespearean Newspaper
• Rubric for Romeo & Juliet Essay

• Romeo & Juliet Character Map
• Romeo & Juliet summary and project topics
• Visit http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/shakespr/VRGLOBE/VRGlobe.htm for a virtual tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre!

• 9th grade Final Exam Part I Oral Presentation Requirements

• Internet sites for information on signs and symbols:
  www.symbols.com
  www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
  www.symbols.net/
• NJ Speaking Rubric
• Rubric for Informative Speech 1 w/Visual Aid
• Rubric for Informative Speech 2
• Monroe's Motivated Sequence Design--a checklist for writing your persuasive speech
• Unjumble this speech by Booker T. Washington
• Analytical Essay on Public Speaking

• Journalist's Checklist
• Notes on Editorial Structure
• Jumbled article to be rearranged
• Jumbled article no. 2 to be rearranged
• Jumbled article no. 3 to be rearranged
• Better Interviewing
• Editorials and Opinions
• Editorial Cartoon Analysis Worksheet
• Birth of a Sidebar
• Persuasive Essay on Hard News v Feature Writing
• Presentation on Journalism

• Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for 10th grade
• Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for Journalism

• Compare/Contrast Essay no. 1 for 10th grade American Lit (Microsoft Word).
• 10th grade Study Guide for American Literature

• Puritan Literature Final Project assignment and criteria
• Researching the Salem Witch Trials inference/evidence chart
• Overview of The Crucible.
• Analytical essay prompt on moral dilemma in The Crucible
• Irving-Poe Compare/Contrast assignment.
• Student lesson plan (Microsoft Word): Step-by-step process for creating your own lesson plan.
• Visit http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/twain/twain.html as a preview to our reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Visit http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/usa/mccarthy.htm for background on the McCarthy era.
• Visit http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/story.html for a brief video on the Salem Witch Trials.
• Visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_salem/interview.html and click on "Interactive: Explore Salem" to teach yourself even more about the cast of characters in the Salem Witch Trials.

• Much Ado About Nothing Final Project Rubric and Assignment
• Much Ado About Nothing Study Guide
• Much Ado About Nothing Character Map

• Spoon River Anthology assignment and worksheets.
• Spoon River Anthology online
• Team Research Paper on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Gatsby vocabulary words
• Gatsby setting map worksheet

Need to contact Mr. Zacharia? Send an e-mail now to mzacharia@pthsd.k12.nj.us or leave a message for him at PHHS, extension 2809.
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