Syllabus | Third Quarter's Assignments Revised: Mar. 19, 2009
[First Quarter's Assignments] [Second Quarter's Assignments]
Week of January 19 to 23 (Beginning of Second Semester and Third Quarter)
Mon	No School: MLK, Jr. Day
Tues	[Inauguration] Hand back papers. Go over semester spelling quiz and short story test. Discuss writing good "significance" answers. Leave all notebooks on shelf. No hmwk.
Wed	[PUC Basketball Tournament] Journal #22 (Untimed: Where would you be if you could be anywhere? $$$/time/space no object.) Begin grammar unit: "Parts of Speech," Chpt. 12. Introduce reasons for studying grammar. Diagnostic test, pp. 341-2. Go over Diagnostic Test in class. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz.
Thur	[PUC Basketball Tournament] Spelling quiz. Review nouns. Do ex. 1-3 aloud in class. Create list of 50 nouns (20 items in this classroom, 5 proper nouns, 5 ideas, 10 common nouns that name people, 3 common nouns for places, 3 proper nouns for places, 4 your choice--label as "common" or "proper"). Share lists. No hmwk.
Week of January 26 to 30
Mon	Spelling pre-test. Review noun activities from last week. Move on to pronouns. Talk about languages as "inflected" (Spanish, French) or "order" (English). Personal pronouns chart on board. (Personal pronouns are an inflected part of our otherwise order language.) Work on ex. 4 together (1 paper/2 people). Go over ex. 4. Hmwk: Do ex. 5 before class tomorrow.
Tues	[Academy Day] Due: ex. 5. Check off and go over homework. Continue with pronouns. Notes on board about "antecedent": the noun to which the pronoun refers. (Ex: Teresa is making a cake. She reads the recipe for it very carefully. Teresa is the antecedent for the pronoun she. Cake is the antecedent for the pronoun it.) Do Writing Application B, p. 349. Include pronouns so that you don't have to needlessly repeat nouns. Make sure the pronoun/antecedent connections are clear so that your writing is not confusing like the example passage. Share sentences with clear pronoun/antecedent connection in class. No hmwk.
Wed	Continue with Parts of Speech: adjectives. Notes on board. Do ex. 6 together. Work in pairs on ex. 7. Share sentences with classmates. Begin rev. ex. A. Hmwk: Finish rev. ex. A--if not finished in class--and study for spelling quiz.
Thur	Spelling quiz. Journal #23 (Group writing: "Once upon a time . . ."). Divide into groups of no more than four students. First student sets the scene, introduces at least one character and gets the action going. Pass to the right. Next student continues the new story in front of him/her. Pass to right again, etc. Last time, student concludes story. Share stories and circle 10 nouns, box 5 pronouns, and draw arrows from 5 adjectives to the nouns they modify. File into Journal #23 slot in English notebook. No hmwk.
Week of February 2 to 6
Mon	Spelling pre-test. Pass back graded papers. Continue with Parts of Speech: verbs. Notes on board about action verbs. Do ex. 9 & 10. Hmwk: Complete ex. 9 & 10
Tues	Continue with Parts of Speech. Go over hmwk and answer questions. Continue notes and examples on board about linking verbs. Work on action and linking verb worksheet. Work on ex. 11 & 12. Hmwk: Check answers for action and linking verb worksheet online. Complete ex. 11 & 12.
Wed	Continue with Parts of Speech. Go over homework and answer questions. Notes on board about verb phrases. Work on verb phrases worksheet. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz. Check answers for both verb phrases worksheet (AND action and linking verb worksheet--if you didn't this one last night) online.
Thur	Spelling quiz. Continue with Parts of Speech. Work on ex. 13. Open-book quiz on nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.
Week of February 9 to 13
Mon	No School: Staff Development Day
Tues	Spelling pre-test. Continue with Parts of Speech. Review of verbs and verb phrases: "Action, Linking, Helping: What's the Difference" wkst. Write sentences containing these verb phrases. Hmwk: Complete worksheet and sentences started in class today. Due tomorrow--at the beginning of class.
Wed	Collect hmwk from yesterday: Sentences with verb phrases and yellow worksheet. Continue with Part of Speech chapter: adverbs. Do ex. 14 (p. 361), 16 (p. 363), 17 (pp. 363-5), & 18 (p. 365). Due Thursday at the beginning of class. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz. Complete ex. 14, 16, 17, & 18 if you didn't finish in class.
Thur	Spelling quiz (Choose any 15 words from the list). Have students save homework papers. We'll go over them next week. Do Adverb worksheet. Begin review of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. (Use separate sheet of paper for answers--if there isn't enough room on the question sheet. No hmwk.
Week of February 16 to 20
Mon	No School: Presidents' Day
Tues	Spelling pre-test. Parts of Speech. Go over worksheet and sentences from last week. Answer questions. Hmwk: Complete #1-4 of review worksheet.
Wed	Parts of Speech. Go over Adverb worksheet. Do rev. ex. B (p. 366). Complete review of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. (Use separate sheet of paper for answers--if there isn't enough room on the question sheet. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz. Review for quiz over verbs, verb phrases, and adverbs. (Complete review of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs--if not finished in class.)
Thur	Spelling quiz. Parts of Speech. Continue going over review of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Go over rev. ex. B. Hmwk: Review notes for quiz on Monday over verbs, verb phrases, and adverbs.
Week of February 23 to 27
Mon	Spelling pre-test. Check off review of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Quiz over verbs, verb phrases, and adverbs. No hmwk.
Tues	Parts of Speech. Begin prepositions. Do ex. 20. Do Prepositions and Objects of Prepositions Worksheet. Hmwk: Do Identifying Prepositional Phrases worksheet and check answers online--before tomorrow!
Wed	Parts of Speech. Share crazy prepositions on yesterday's worksheet. Conjunctions. Do ex. 21. Interjections. Notes on board about words being used as different parts of speech. Do ex. 22. Begin Posttests 1 & 2 Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz.
Thur	[Choral Festival] Spelling quiz. Parts of Speech quiz. Finish Posttests 1 & 2. No hmwk.
Week of March 2 to 6
Mon	[Mrs. Dibben has jury duty.] Spelling pre-test. Do as much as you can on the Parts of Speech Worksheet. Begin work on Parts of speech review. Hmwk: Finish through to the end of p. 3 of the Parts of speech review.
Tues	Check off review through end of p. 3. Answer questions and go over Parts of speech review to end of p. 3. Continue Parts of speech review (through to the end). Hmwk: Finish Parts of speech review.
Wed	Check off review through end. Continue going over Parts of speech review and answering questions. Go over Parts of of Speech Worksheet. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz. Complete preparation for Parts of Speech Test (tomorrow).
Thur	Spelling quiz. Go over three open-book quizzes. Notice areas of difficulty. Make sure notes are complete because you'll be able to have notes on your desk during the test. Hmwk: Complete preparation for Part of Speech test (Mon.).
Week of March 9 to 13
Mon	Test: Parts of Speech. (Parts of speech review is due at the beginning of class.) No hmwk.
Tues	Spelling pre-test. Begin "Parts of the Sentence" chapter. Do Diagnostic Test and ex. 1, and go over them in class. Parts of the sentence notes on board. Notes introducing stuctures that follow VTs and VLs. Hmwk: Do ex. 2 and 3. Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.
Wed	Parts of the Sentence. Go over ex. 2 and 3. Review simple subjects and complete subjects. Do ex. 4 and share in class. Hmwk: Finish ex. 5 & 6. (Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.)
Thur	[Band Festival @ SAA] (Spelling quiz has been rescheduled to Monday because so many English 9 students are attending Band Festival.) Parts of the Sentence. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz (rescheduled to Monday).
Week of March 16 to 20 (End of Third Quarter)
Mon	Spelling quiz (rescheduled from last Thursday). Spelling pre-test. Rev. ex. A. Parts of the Sentence.
Tues	No class: Week of Prayer
Wed	Parts of the Sentence. Notes on board about prep phrases and identifying simple subjects and verbs. Do ex. 7 & 8 with these directions: Copy each sentence on your paper. Cross out all prep phrases. ID the verb and underline it twice. Ask "Who or what (verb)?" The answer is the simple subject. Underline the simple subject once. Hmwk: Study for spelling quiz. Complete ex. 7 and 8. Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.
Thur	Spelling quiz. Go over ex. 7 and 8. Do Identifying simple subjects and verbs worksheet. No hmwk. Have a great vacation!
March 23 to 27: Spring Break