Quick Write: What is some advice you’d like to give your teachers?
We will begin practicing to write our Task 3 essay for the Dress Code article. Complete the following worksheet.
Continue with notes on task 3.
Quick Write: What advice would you give your parents/guardians?
Cursory and Ambiguous 9th Grade Vocabulary
Go over answers to questions and find evidence.
Today you will see a question that will come up again and again: the English Regents Task 3 essay.
Here is the question and some notes on how to write it.
Quick Write: What advice would you give your 10 year old self?
Skill: Pathos – the use of emotion to persuade (guilt, anger, sadness, pity
Today we will read this article on Dress Codes. We will answer the questions, then apply SOAPSTone to the article.
Quick Write: What is something at the top of your bucket list?
Correct the following passage:
Harriet Tubman was born in to slavery. In 1849, she excaped from a Maryland plantation. She would devote the rest of her life to helping other slaves gain there freedom. She was a leader of the Underground Railroad, a network of secret places ware slaves could stay on their way to the North. During the civil War, she serve as a cook a nurse, and a union spy. Tubman dyed in March 1913. Her tombstone reads, Servant of God, Well Done.”
We will have time to do our Independent Reading. Here is a copy of the Independent Reading Worksheet.
Quick Write: What is something you are afraid of?
Use this SOAPSTONE worksheet to analyze this video on YouTube.
Quick Write: Write about something you are good at.
Today we will finish our notes on SOAPSTone.
Next we will read this article on Dress Codes. We will answer the questions, then apply SOAPSTone to the article.
Quick Write: Write about 2 goals you hope to accomplish this year.
Today we will go over the words Obscure and Miser: 9th Grade Vocabulary
SOAPSTone is a technique for analyzing writing. Here are the notes.
