11th Grade: Here are the words for Vocab Unit 5:
Lament, Malleable, Mortify, Omnipotent, Plight, Quadrant, Reminiscent, Sanction, Stalwart, Tenacity
12th Grade: Here is a site with some good advice for creating titles for your blog posts.
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9th Grade Work
3rd Quarter 2019-2020
3rd Quarter Vocabulary Words: Apathy, Articulate, Fervent, Virulent
Vocabulary Connection Charts Due 3/25
Real World Vocabulary Due 3/25
Notebooks Due 3/25
Picture Quick Writes Due 3/23
Assignments:
1.28.20: MLK Questions
1.31.20: MLK Lit Devs
2.4.20 – MLK Outline
2.6.20 – MLK Rough Essay
2.7.20 – MLK Final Essay
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2nd Quarter 2019-2020
Quarter Projects:
Vocabulary Connection Charts Due 1/15
Real World Vocabulary Due 1/15
Notebooks Due 1/15
2nd Quarter Vocabulary Words: Fracas, Lucid, Caricature, Daunting, Corroborate, Assess, Precarious, Congregate, Bolster, Undermine
Assignments:
11.22.19 – OMAM/Grammar Packet
11.26.19 – 101 Things I am Thankful For Piece
12.06.19 – OMAM Ch 2 Questions
12.10.19 – OMAM Ch 3 Questions (up to #33)
12.12.19 – Tribute Piece Planning
12.18.19 – Progress Report Essay
12.19.19 – Tribute Piece
1st Quarter 2019-2020
Quarter Projects:
Independent Writing Project (365 Prompts)
Vocabulary Connection Charts Due 10/28
Real World Vocabulary Due 10/28
1st Quarter Vocabulary Words: Optimism, Pessimism, Disdain, Anarchy, Contentious, Solitude, Ostentatious, Virtue, Cursory, Obscure, Miser, Ambiguous, Jocular, Monotonous
Assignments:
9.5.19 – Letter to Future Self
9.10.19 – Important Object Paragraph
9.16.19 – Rewrite Cell Phone Contract
9.27.19 – Tone and Imagery Place Description
10.4.19 – Participation Self Evaluation
10.4.19 – Progress Reports
10.18.19 – SOAPSTone Dweck
10.24.19 – Plot Theme Worksheet
10.28.19 – Vocab Connection Charts
10.28.19 – Real World Vocab
11.4.19 – Independent Writing Due
11.4.19 – Quarterly Exam (in class essay)
11.6.19 – Notebook Due
Resources
Writing Skills
- Action-Adjectives
- Advanced Imagery
- Allusion
- Anaphora
- Anecdote
- Antithesis
- Appositive
- Bookending
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- Found Poetry
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- Outlining
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- Pun
- Reading Plan
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- Repetition
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- Rule of Threes
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- Showing Not Telling
- Slashing Prose
- Starting a Sentence with -ing Words
- Subject Verb Agreement
- The Fake Out
- The Unreliable Narrator
- Tone
- Tone
- Topic Sentences
- Use Better Verbs and Stronger Words
- Use Specific Details
- Use Specific Evidence
- Writing in a Formal Tone
- Writing in the 3rd Person
- Writing in the Present Tense
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