Happy Monday! Please do the following:

Sentences

On

Steroids

Directions:“Buff” up the following sentences by

adding adjectives, action verbs, vocabulary words, figurative

language, etc.

1)I’m bored.

2)He is ugly.

ELA 9 Vocab 2:4Word POS Def. Example

1 Blight N Anything that injures, destroys or prevents growth

2 Repercussion N Effect or result of some event or action, often negative

3 Forage V To search or hunt for food

4 Extremist N A supporter or advocate of extreme practices, often political in nature

5 Frankness N Plainness of speech, open & honest

6 Urban Adj Pertaining to a city or town

7 Provision N Supplies; especially food and necessities

8 Self-reliance N Relying on one’s own powers, resources, etc.

9 Penance N A punishment to make-up for a wrong-doing

10 Dissipate V To scatter in various directions; to spread out

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Book Talks

Tuesday: All hours (full day)Wednesday: ACT Testing (1/2 day)Thursday: 1st & 3rd Hours Present (1/2 day)Friday: 4th hour Presents (1/2 day)Monday, Nov. 12th: 1,3,4 Hours present (full day)

Writing about your Data: Explanatory Essay

Purpose: to write about your data findings in a formal report while incorporating your graphics.

Explanatory Essay OutlineI. Introduction A. “Hook”/Lead B. Bridge sentence C. Thesis Statement

II. Survey Q #1 A. Basic Results (yes/no) B. Gender & age results C. Research conclusion

III. Survey Q #2 A. Basic Results B. Gender & Age results C. Research Conclusion

IV. Survey Q #3 A. Basic Results B. Gender & Age results C. Research Conclusion

V. Conclusion A. Restated thesis B. “So why does it matter…”/Call to action…

I. Introduction A. “Hook”/Lead B. Bridge sentence C. Thesis Statement

Explanatory Essay: IntroductionEXAMPLE: Do happiness and money go hand in hand? Can one exist without the other? Versions of these age old questions were asked to various members of the Port Huron High School community and the results were analyzed. Research across both gender and age showed that indeed money is an indicator of happiness.YOUR research result…

what did you find out?

Explanatory Essay: Body Paragraphs

EXAMPLE: II. Survey Q #1 (topic

sentence) A. Basic Results (yes/no) B. Gender & age results C. Research conclusion

III. Survey Q #2 A. Basic Results B. Gender & Age results C. Research Conclusion

IV. Survey Q #3 A. Basic Results B. Gender & Age results C. Research Conclusion

PHHS community members were first asked, “Can money buy happiness?” The results of this questions are that ____% agree that money can buy happiness, while ____% disagreed with the statement. For this question, ______ tended to agree more while ______ saw this as untrue. Also, based on the responses, younger people responded________ while those who are older claimed ________. Therefore, research suggests that money ______ buy happiness.

Explanatory Essay: Concluding Paragraph

EXAMPLE: V. Conclusion

A. Restated thesis B. “So why does it matter…”/ Call to action…

Thus, research across both gender and age showed that indeed money is an indicator of happiness. These results indicate a need for a shift in what brings happiness to people; material things are not an indicator of internal happiness and happiness cannot be bought.

Exit

What makes YOU,

you?

Happy Tuesday! Please do the following:

Sentences

On

Steroids

Directions:“Buff” up the following sentences by

adding adjectives, action verbs, vocabulary words, figurative

language, etc.

1)Port Huron is an urban city.

2)The leaves dissipated.

Non-fictionDefinition:

Writing that deals with REAL people, REAL events, REAL

places…

Examples:Autobiography

BiographyMemoirEssays

NewspapersLetters

Informational Articles

Textbooks

Elements of Non-fictionSubject

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Diction

Organization

Tone

Speaker

Voice

Record & remember

this acronym!

Subject

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Who or What

When/Circumstances

Who is listening or

reading

Why

August 28, 1963…March

on Washington

End racial discriminati

on & inequality

Diction

Organization

Tone

Style

Choice of Words

How it’s set up

(main ideas)

Attitude of writer

How a piece is written

Voice

Allows a reader to “HEAR”A human

personality…&

Uniqueness in style

Combination of: Tone Diction Style

Personal TimidInformal FormalConversational InstructionalSarcastic Loving

Tone

For Discussion:

What is the difference in

TONE between the two parts?

Applying the Non-Fiction Terms

1) Read out loud together

2) Count off by 10’s

3) Pick out the term you are

assigned

4) Fill out Chart

5) Go over terms together

1) Type of Non-Fiction

2) Subject

3) Occasion

4) Audience

5) Purpose

6) Diction

7) Organization

8) Tone

9) Style

10)Voice

The Gettysburg Address1) Type of Non-

Fiction

2) Subject

3) Occasion

4) Audience

5) Purpose

6) Diction

7) Organization

8) Tone

9) Style

10) Voice

The Gettysburg AddressFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Hand or Foot

Places you have traveled

Places you have walke

d

Injuries

Sports

Things you have held

Things you have touched

How you are

unique

Happy Wednesday! Please do the following:

Sentences

On

Steroids

Directions:“Buff” up the following sentences by

adding adjectives, action verbs, vocabulary words, figurative

language, etc.

1)The dog smells.

2)It is cold.

Elements of Non-fictionSubject

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Diction

Organization

Tone

Speaker

Voice

Record & remember

this acronym!

Non-fictionSubject

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Diction

Organization

Tone

Speaker

Voice

Match the picture to the term…

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4

8

7

5

2

3

6

9

“Darkness at Noon”

+/- Chart

Birth-----------------YEARS---------------------------------------------------- 2012

Scale

Happy Thursday! Please do the following:

Sentences

On

Steroids

Directions:“Buff” up the following sentences by

adding adjectives, action verbs, vocabulary words, figurative

language, etc.

1)It hurt.

2)It was good.

Big Q: “What makes Harold Krents, Harold Krents?”

1) What is his PERSONALITY like? (what is he like on the “inside”?)

2) What does he look like? (what is he like physically?)

3) What events or circumstances have shaped his life?

For each of the pictures below, describe what it would be like to live there…

“The Loophole of Retreat”Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Read “The Loophole of Retreat” and apply the terms of Non-Fiction

Big Q: “What makes Harriet Jacobs, Harriert Jacobs?”

1) What is her PERSONALITY like? (what is she like on the “inside”?)

2) What does she look like? (what is she like physically?)

3) What events or circumstances have shaped her life?

“The Loophole of Retreat”1) Choose ONE of the three options to

complete.2) Work on it ON YOUR OWN3) Turn in at the end of the hour

ELA 9 Vocab 2:4Word POS Def. Example

1 Blight N Anything that injures, destroys or prevents growth

2 Repercussion N Effect or result of some event or action, often negative

3 Forage V To search or hunt for food

4 Extremist N A supporter or advocate of extreme practices, often political in nature

5 Frankness N Plainness of speech, open & honest

6 Urban Adj Pertaining to a city or town

7 Provision N Supplies; especially food and necessities

8 Self-reliance N Relying on one’s own powers, resources, etc.

9 Penance N A punishment to make-up for a wrong-doing

10 Dissipate V To scatter in various directions; to spread out

Practice Prompts