Friday, May 17

Do Now: Put your word maps in the homework bin!

Today:
Finish R&J presentations
Start Of Mice and Men

Assignments:
Read pages 1-16 for Monday and complete one Reader Repsonse page

Announcements:
Missing Vocabulary Quizzes from Friday, May 10:

• Make these after school on Monday, or during lunch and after school on Wednesday. Wednesday, 5/22 will be the last day for make-up quizzes. 
• Louis, Alexis, Antonia, Francis, Janitza, Tania, Mohit, Lillian, Janae

The LAST DAY to complete the R&J project for half credit is Wednesday, 5/22. Any projects submitted after this date will not be accepted. Your grade will be a 0. 

Presentations:

Tamia, Shawna, Jade, Julianne, Alaida – film

Daniel - monologue

Leah, Tania, Imani – video

Dymere – eulogy

Alexis – eulogy

Travis - eulogy

Thursday, May 16

Today:
Review vocabulary
Presentations
Preview Of Mice and Men

Thursday, 5/16

Drew, Angelo, Zaire – live performance

Jamar - eulogy

Thursday, 5/16

Shedwal, Zimere, AJ – video

James - poetry presentation

Assignments:
Word maps due tomorrow!

Get excited! You are getting new books to read tomorrow!

Today:
Review vocabulary
R&J Presentations
Of Mice and Men

Assignments
word maps due Friday (all 20)
Be ready for your presentation days!

Wednesday, 5/15

Tiona – eulogy

Isaiah – eulogy

Hadiyah – eulogy

Wednesday, 5/15

Nasir – eulogy

Jimerr – eulogy

Tuesday, May 14

Do Now: Get two vocab sheets (16 & 17) and begin completing them. Put your R&J projects in the homework bin. 

Today: 
New vocab
R&J presentations
review Great Depression photos
share out friend posters

Assignments:
Word maps for 16&17 are due on Friday
we get Of Mice and Men books tomorrow!

Romeo and Juliet - Project Performance Schedule

Period 2

Tuesday, 5/14

Tyray, Leroy – live performance
Lillian - eulogy

Thursday, 5/16

Drew, Angelo, Zaire – live performance

Jamar - eulogy

Friday, 5/17

Tamia, Shawna, Jade, Julianne, Alaida – film

Daniel - monologue

Period 3

Tuesday, 5/14

Mizani, Ranisha, Sedia – live performance

Dom - eulogy

Thursday, 5/16

Shedwal, Zimere, AJ – video

James - poetry presentation

Friday, 5/17

Leah, Tania, Imani – video

Period 7

Tuesday, 5/14

Patrick, George – film

Keira – eulogy

Deneya - monologue

Wednesday, 5/15

Tiona – eulogy

Isaiah – eulogy

Hadiyah – eulogy

Friday, 5/17

Dymere – eulogy

Alexis – eulogy

Period 8

Tuesday, 5/14

Yamir, Louis, Dushawn – live performance

Wednesday, 5/15

Nasir – eulogy

Jimerr – eulogy

Friday, May 10

Do Now:
Study!! You have a vocab test!!

Assignments: 
Romeo & Juliet project!!

Wednesday, May 8

Do Now: Vocabulary Review

Today:
review vocabulary
Great Depression photo analysis

Assignments:

• Vocab Test on chapter 11, 13, 14 & 15 on Friday! Review your words now!
• Romeo and Juliet projects due Tuesday, May 14 - see the post following this one for project rubrics and the online link to the whole play

Romeo & Juliet Project Rubric

Click here to view the grading rubrics for each R&J project. In order to save paper, I will not be distributing indvidiual copies to students. 

Full online text of Romeo and Juliet is available here. For those of you completing the Alternate Scene project choice, this is also a good example of how your scripts should be formatted. 

Monday, May 6

Hi awesome ninth graders -

I'm sorry I'm not in today, but I promise I'll be back tomorrow. Use class time to work on your Romeo and Juliet projects. (Click here to view the project choices). If you need to use R&J text at home, you can also visit this website to read the whole play. 

I will collect all your word maps tomorrow! 

Be good. :) 

Wednesday, May 1

Today:
Project Detail
Finish Act IV

Assignments:

• word maps due Friday
• Click here for the Romeo and Juliet Final Project - due Tuesday, May 14 at the beginning of class