The Breadwinner

Students are writing a formal essay on the novel and completing their group projects.

The Breadwinner Essay

Grade Nine English

Your assignment is to answer the following question.

“What can we learn from this novel?”  OR “What does this novel teach us?”

Example: The novel The Breadwinner shows how Parvana’s family fights to survive living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

Example: It is clearly evident in the novel, The Breadwinner, that women are treated very differently than men and they have fewer rights than Canadian women.

Your essay must consist of at least five paragraphs, the first will be the introduction, the middle paragraphs will be the body paragraphs (the reasons to support your statement) and the last paragraph will be the conclusion. 

You will be graded on the following:

          /5       Outline and rough copy

/2       Title page with original title

          /3       Introductory paragraph with the novel title and author cited

          /9       content and organization of body paragraphs

          /2       use of at least one quote to support the essay (inc. pg number)

          /5       mechanics – spelling, grammar, double spaced

          /5       rough copy(s) with EDITING

          /2       concluding paragraph – summarizing essay in an original way

          /2       effort and attitude

          /35     TOTAL

Test is tomorrow - Thursday, November 10th.

Essays and group projects are due on Monday, November 14th.

Breadwinner Essay

Today we will go over the basic formal essay and students will be assigned an essay to write on the novel.  Tomorrow and Wednesday students will be able to work on their group projects and their essays.

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Students are working on The Breadwinner group assignment.
Use the following website for the plot line.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/plot-diagram/

Project -
1. 3 pictures of Afghan clothing
2. Map of Afghanistan
3. Venn Diagram comparing your life to Parvana's life.
4. Plot line.

ALL GROUP WORK MUST BE IN "PUBLISHED" FORM AND DISPLAYED IN THE CLASSROOM ON THE BACK BB.

Test - next week - Wednesday.
Essay on novel - Monday

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Reader Response Letters due today.

We are reading The Breadwinner - Chapters 7, 8 and 9 today.

Monday

Today we will go over:
"Taste of Melon" - hand back assignments and go over
"How to Tell Renata" - and finish - questions and journal entry

Silent reading of the short story "The Game" by Ken Dryden.  Students have to select five words that they do not understand, write the sentence, circle or underline the word and then write a definition.  Then students must select one of the following activities to complete:
Outline all of the qualities of the "sports hero" or celebrity identified by Dryden.  Select a sports figure, and compare Dryden's description.  Create a chart to show your findings. 

Work on Remembrance Day - poem or essay.
Study
Test tomorrow -  students must hand in all notes - organized and complete.

Today

Today we worked on:
- listening activity-I read "Long, Long After School" and they had to listen. After listening, they had to answer ten questions.
- reading comprehension activity - half a page with ten questions
- talked about reading to Seniors
- starting reading "Taste of Melon" with reading strategy prediction chart. We will finish this tomorrow.

Test - Monday, October 24th on everything that we have studied "In Search of Self".

Friday, October 14

Today we finished reading "Golden Girl" silently and finished the assignment - graphic organizer and five comprehension questions.  Assignments need to be handed in when completed.

Then we went to the library to select things to read to the Seniors on Monday for Education Week.

Next week we will try to finish the selections from the Unit In Search of Self, and plan to have a test the following week.

Tuesday, October 11th

Today we completed a short work sheet on sentence fragments; tomorrow we will work on run-ons.  We also went to the computer lab to continue our drafts for our personal stories/anecdotes. 

These are due on Thursday, October 13th!

Tomorrow we will read two short poems and create a visual representation for one of them.

Due Monday, October 3rd

Reader Response Letters
Book Reports - due Thursday, October 6th

Short Story Assignment

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 (handouts).  Your story must be at least 1500 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 Tuesday, October 11^th.