Book Representation

Grade Nine Book Project

Due Date: Thursday, April 11^th

You must select and read any book of your choice.  The book must be at least 150 pages and it must be a new book that you begin now.  You must create a Power Point that has a minimum of 20 slides that represents this book.  You must include captions and pictures on each slide.  You can represent and talk about the novel in any way: plot, characters, point of view, setting, theme, mood, author, other novels by this author, scenes, quotes, favorite parts, researching a topic from the novel, etc...  There is no expectation to cover everything, except the audience must understand the entire novel.  There is an expectation to RESPOND to the novel.  What are your feelings about the topic/novel; how can you connect to the novel; can you learn anything from the novel...  You can refer to our reader response questions.

Power Point

/20       slides and overall content on each slide

/5         creativity and overall appearance

/5         covering what happened in the story

/5         grammar, spelling

Presentation

/5         volume

/5         expression

/5         fluency and eye contact

Total

/50

SCC Poetry Competition

Poems:
- between 12 and 32 lines
- personal - using "I"
- any topic
- any style is accepted
- must by hand written/printed
- must have brainstorming and at least one rough draft
- editing/proofreading can only be done by a classmate
- place good copy on top
- name on the back of one of the pages

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

1. Explain each Greek God and who each was in the story?

(a)               Hades

(b)               Poseidon

(c)               Demigod

(d)               Zeus

(e)               Persephone

(f)                 Athena

(g)               Hermes

(h)              Medusa

2. Why did Percy have so much trouble at his “regular” school?
3. How did Percy, Annabeth and Grover find their way to the Underworld?
4. Why did Percy, Annabeth and Grover travel to the Underworld and how did they get out?
5. Explain who Luke is and what happens to him?
6. Explain what happened with Percy and his father at the end of the story?
7. Explain how Percy felt about his mother?
8. What kinds of things can people learn from this particular movie?
9. What is the purpose of the Norse and Greek God stories? 
10. What is the difference between Norse and Greek myths?

Beowulf

http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html

Videos

How do the following video stories fit into our unit?

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskw0fLqYyM

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb0q8SL_kLY&feature=related

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKxsiRYC9Q


How does the picture book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? fit into our unit?

How does the following picture fit into our unit of study?

Persuasive Speech

Stephen Harper's full apology speech on behalf of Canadians for Indian Residential Schools System:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ryC74bbrEE

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=2149



http://homeworktips.about.com/od/speechclass/a/How-To-Write-A-Persuasive-Speech.htm

And the Lucky Winner Is...

Partner Reading
- practice your reading strategies
- discuss the meaning of telekinesis and telepathy

When finished - write a summary of the story with 10-15 points.  Each point must be written with at least one complete sentence.  THERE MUST NOT BE ANY ERORRS WITH RUN-ONS OR FRAGMENTS!!!! You must use capitals and periods.

Be prepared to share your summary witht the class.

In-Motion Break

Circuit Fun!!

Book Project

Grade 9 English Language Arts

Book Report Project: Conflicts, Issues and Challenges: Making the Right Choice

Select and read a novel of AT LEAST 200 PAGES that will fit into this unit.

Components:

/2         Title and Author with information about the author and other publications

/2         Setting, mood and theme(s)

/3         List of characters with descriptions (minimum 3)

/5         Plot Summary

/2         Persuasiveness – persuade someone to read the novel

/5         List and describe FIVE conflicts, issues or challenges AND explain the right choice for each

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Voice:

/2         Volume

/2         Eye Contact with camera

/2         Pace/speed

/2         Expression

/3         Quality of video and creativity

/30     TOTAL

The Highway Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le727fRZHpA

TEST

The Breadwinner

Test

 Tuesday

 November 6th

Monday, November 5th

 Essay Writing

Sentences

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hby4NBOwf7E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Remembrance Day Poems - Due Friday, November 2

Reading The Breadwinner

http://www.squidoo.com/booktrailers

Nextt book assignment - Making the Right Choice!
Book Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqox1eYci78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ye-REkHgrQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AieN1yQy1tw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ixJspegHq4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj8Veprh98Q

Grade Nine English Language Arts

In Search of Self

Creative Writing Assignment

Your assignment is to write a short story, or a personal anecdote, describing an event in your life that helped you to understand yourself.  This event may be small in nature or very large.  For example, it may be attending a friend’s birthday party or it may be when your parents got divorced.  The event may be recent or it may be from several years ago.  This event must include some discovery or realization about you.

You must write in first person and you must consider word choice, organization, voice, conventions, and sentence fluency.  Your story must be about 1000 words.

You must include pre-writing, drafting and a good typed copy with a title page.  You must have at least TWO people edit and proofread your story.  They must use two different colors and sign their names on the draft.

The story will be due on Friday, October 19^th.

Exam

Test - "In Search of Self" selections
- Thursday, October 18th

Tomorrow will read two poems and respond to them - by creating a Venn diagram to compare/contrast them and then selecting one to create a visual representation.  The poems are from the unit "In Search of Self".

We will listen to some of the book talks and the rest on Wednesday.

Today:

- one song lyric assignment

- rainbows

- newspaper articles

- reader response letters - due Monday

- book talks - due Tuesday and Wednesday

Rainbows:

I am helping a friend out and asking everyone to help out! Could everyone, including you big kids, drarainw a simple picture of a rainbow and mail it to Patricia Verhelst Box 355, Radville, SK S0C 2G0 by next week and she will send them all in together. There is a little girl in Saskatoon who is sick who wishes to get a rainbow from everyone in the world. Please write your name and where you are from on it. Lets make a wish come true if it was your child you would want that! Thanks everyone and please copy and paste this to help spread the word.

Weekend

Homework
- Find a song for your lyric assignment this weekend.

On Monday
- song lyric assignment
- newspaper article "On the Sidewalk Bleeding"
- correct parts of speech poster
- book talk

In Search of Self

Jade Peony

The Jade Peony  by Wayson Choy

Write the sentence for each word and the write a definition for each:

1.     Ginseng (page 14)

2.     Sombre (page 14)

3.     Diminutive (page 14)

4.     Impeccable (page 14)

5.     Dissension (page 15)

6.     Menacing (page 15)

7.     Exasperation (page 15)

8.     Abomination (page 15)

9.     Embossed (page 15)

10.  Precariously (page 16)

11.  Deftly (page 18)

At the end of the story – on page 21, answer questions 1a, b, c, d and e. 
Sketch a picture of the death chimes.

Assignment

Grade Nine

“In Search of Self”

Song Lyric Analysis Assignment

“Nothing separates the generations more than music.  By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger that his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”      Bill Cosby

Your assignment is to find a song that speaks to you and helps to define yourself and all that you are.  Find the song and lyrics.   Summarize what the song is about and then write how it relates to you.  You must present the song to the class,  present the summary and how it relates to you and who you are.

You will be graded on the following:

/2        presenting/playing the song for the class – be prepared

/3        song lyrics – hand in with rhyming pattern labelled

/5        summary of the song – read aloud for the class

/5        paragraph or more of how the song relates to you and your life

/3        delivery – volume, speed, eye contact…

/18                  Total