Mrs. Dial’s 9th Grade Honors English Blog
Monday: Animal Farm quiz chapters 6-10 and definititons of ethos, pathos, and logos. Also, assignment #2, Propaganda in Animal Farm, is due.
Tuesday: the Poetry Notebook is due. We will spend the second half of the block having a poetry “coffee house” where everyone will do a dramatic reading of the one of the poems from his or her notebook.
Romeo and Juliet: We’ll be reading this all week as well as watching parts of the movie. The test for Romeo and Juliet will be next week during final exam time.
End-of-Course Test: Thursday and Friday (May 7 and 8)– We will review each day, Mon.- Wed., in class. Please get on USA Testprep and work some of the practice tests/quizzes.
Poetry: We finish up discussing poetry on Monday and take a poetry quiz on Tuesday. (This will replace the last poetry quiz.) Remember that the Poetry Notebook is due on Tuesday, 5/12.
Animal Farm: quiz over chapters 6-10 will be on Monday, 5/11 and will also cover the definititons of the rhetorical language: ethos, pathos, and logos. Also due Monday is assignment #2, Propaganda in Animal Farm.
Romeo and Juliet: We will finish discussing background information of Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and Romeo and Juliet on Monday and begin reading the play on Tuesday. Bring textbooks to class every day.