This Week

We have been working on:

1. Parts of Speech Assignment - due Tuesday, April 5

2. Book Report/Poster - Due tomorrow - Monday, April 4th

3. Students also have April reader response letter due: Wednesday, April 6th.

I also bought some great books at Rural Congress - 4 (ONLY 4) parts of speech, quotation marks and apostrophes that we will share:)

We started Romeo and Juliet - and we will continue with some William Shakespeare history and then begin reading the play.

Book Reports

Book Reports are due on Friday, April 2nd.

Love and Loyalty

We are beginning the unit Love and Loyalty this week.  We have started with Romeo and Juliet, and we are wathcing the new edition with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Test

Norse and Indigenous Narratives Exam

CHANGE TO MONDAY, MARCH 21ST
Study:
Importance and purpose of storytelling.

Story Selections:
- Beowulf and definitions
- Thor's Journey to Utgard
- Death of Balder
Norse Gods
-  Loki
- Balder
- Thor
- Beowulf
- Grendal
- Odin
- Hod
- Hel
- Skymir
- Vali

Sentences - run ons, fragments, and comma splice
Capitalization and Spelling

Grade 9 Book Report

Grade Nine Book Report

Select an age-appropriate book that you have never read and create a poster that includes each of the following.  The poster needs to be large bristle board paper.

/2            Title and Author

/2            Information about the author including other books that he/she has published

/3            Setting – where, when and mood (general feeling a reader gets from the story).

/5            List of main characters, no more than five, with a short description for each – identify the protagonist (main character – hero) and the antagonist (the person or thing fighting against the protagonist).

/6            Conflict – list 3-5 conflicts from the story.  Explain and label each.  (person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs nature)

/2            Point of View – state the point of view – the angle from which the story is told:  first –person: one of the characters is telling the story using “I”; third-person: someone outside the story is telling it – She walked slowly, wishing she could turn.  There are three types of third-person: omniscient (know all about every character), limited omniscient (know the thoughts and feelings of one character), and camera-view (objective and unemotional).

/10         Plot : exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.  Explain in sentences or use a diagram.  Exposition is the beginning – often the initiating event (what gets the story going).

/5            Visuals – at least five pictures – that must be hand drawn (they may be traced)

/2            Description of favourite part

/2            Personal response to the book –

/3            Spelling, Capitalization, grammar

/3            Neatness and Overall Appearance

PRESENTATION:

/5            Volume

/5            Expression

/5            Eye Contact and Fluency

TOTAL - /60

This Week

This week we are finishing up our Norse Unit.  We are going to finish reading Balder, and then we have to read two more short selections.  We will plan to have an exam later this week or early next week.  I will post exactly which work/selections will be on the test.

Wednesday, March 2

FINISH:
1. GRAMMAR BOOKLET
2. THOR - STORY CHART
3. READER RESPONSE LETTER
These are due on Thursday.
Thursday stories:
1-Keirstin
2-James
3-Alex
4-Mikayla
5-Tristin
6-Justin
7-Ally
8-Kim
Friday Stories:
1-Riley G
2-Syd
3-Tyra
4-Shania
5-Riley T
6-Jesse
7-Tyler
8-Danny - next week
9-Tylynne

February 28 to March 4

This morning we will catch up on a few things and begin listening to the stories from the storytelling assignment.  Please encourage your grandparents (or other) to come in while their stories are being shared.
1- Norse God Representation
2- Storytelling
3- Grammar
4- Two sets of definitions
5- Reading two selections

Week of February 14-18th

1. Finish story map of Beowulf.
2. Finish two sheets of definitions: Beowulf and Norse characters.
3. Complete Story assignment.
4. Complete Representation Assignment
5. Grammar Handout

Represenation Assignment

Grade Nine

Norse God Representation

Your assignment is select one Norse character, myth or Indigenous Narrative to represent.  There are many different variations of each of these so your assignment is to research your selection: read different versions, look at as many pictures or videos as you can and then create a something to represent you selection.

We will decide together the expectations and guidelines today.

You will be asked to work on this next week.

Norse Myths:
http://www.norse-mythology.com/

What is the difference between myths, fables and fairy tales?
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/what-is-difference-between-myths-legends-fables-folk-tales.htm

List of Indigenous Narratives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fairy_tales

Myths:
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends.htm

Norse Myths:
http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/norse_culture.html

After our class today, we agreed that each student can decide how to create his/her representation.  This may be a hand drawing, a paint picture created on the computer, or a couple of slides on a Power Point.  The most important part of this respresentation is that it is STUDENT CREATED!!!  IT CANNOT BE JUST A GOOGLE IMAGE WITH A TITLE ADDED!