Grade 9 (English 1)

  • Complete 3 Chapter Summaries for your Independent Reading Assignment.   You don’t have to print them out; just show me that you completed them.
  • Choose a book for your independent reading assignment if you haven’t already and HAVE IT READY TO READ IN CLASS.  If you are unsure of whether I will approve it, email me beforehand or ask me at school.
  • Finish the comprehension questions for “The Sniper” #1-8 if you haven’t already.
  • Finish your paragraph, handwritten, on a separate sheet of paper, for “The Cask of Amontillado” based on the following topics/questions:
    • What are the consequences of envy and/or hatred?
    • Friendship is not always what it seems.
    • Do you think years of emotional pain justify violent/vengeful acts?
    • Is violence/murder ever justifiable? (Related to the previous topic)

 

  • Generate 5 themes AND 5 paragraph topics for the Edgar Allan Poe story, ““The Cask of Amontillado.”  The paragraph topics can be related to the themes, but they must be in question form.
  • Just in case, for a review of / examples of themes, check the definition and examples in the following document: Literary Elements & Techniques- In Alpha Order- With Examples
  • Study for WW Quiz on Chapter 6.  We will spend 10 minutes of class time to review the words before the quiz.
  • Finish reading “The Cask of Amontillado” pgs. 211-218 including the biography of Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Complete “Reading Check” pg. 219 #1-5 on a separate sheet of paper.

     

  • Complete your sentences for the WW words for Chapter 6 as a parternship if you haven’t already.  Remember: BOTH names should be on the paper; therefore BOTH people will be responsible for this grade.
  • The sentences will be graded as normal paragraphs: for mechanics, spelling, correct word usage, etc.