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
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
- Characterization
- Commonly Confused Words
- Creative Sentence Fragments
- Dramatic Irony
- Effective Lead
- Effective Title
- Epigraph
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- Epistrophe
- Extended Metaphor
- Five Words Not Fifty
- Found Poetry
- General vs Specific
- Iambic Pentameter
- Labyrinthine Sentence
- Narrator’s Point of View
- Organizing Ideas into Paragraphs
- Outlining
- Parallel Sentence Structure
- Personification
- Present Your Opinion As Fact
- Pun
- Reading Plan
- Reflective Narrator
- Repetition
- Rhetorical Strategies
- Rule of Threes
- Sensory Imagery
- 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
Music Production Club
Meets Thursdays, 9th Period in C181
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