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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 is never 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-55 and I will make sure you are caught up.

Interactive Notebooks
Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for 9th grade
Syllabus and Contact Info sheet for Public Speaking

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

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

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

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

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.