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.