Mrs. Neitzke's 9th grade English

Notorious 9 th Grade English!

“Lions, and tigers, and high

school papers, Oh my!”

I Promise you this!In Freshman English "the students [you] will be introduced to the various genre of classic and contemporary narrative and informational texts that will be read and analyzed throughout high school. Ninth graders will connect with and respond to texts by analyzing relationships within and across families, communities, societies, governments, and economies. Through the lens of Inter-Relationships and Self-Reliance, they will consider how they build relationships, how their relationships impact others, and their responsibility to society.”

Michigan Merit Standards & the Michigan Department for Education

How will you do this?

Here’s My Advice

Try doing ALL your homewor

k!

Don’t cause yourself

stress! Do your work

early!

ACTUALLY READ!

Give Yourself and your ideas

time to blossom! Try you

hardest!

Study!

So, what will be doing in Freshman English this year?

Doing all things improves your chance of success!

Don’t make

excuses!

Turn Homewor

k in on time!

Mapping out the Semester! September 5:

Ready, Set, Go!

(Writers Journal Introduced!)

Sept. 6Short Stories

Unit!(Literary Devices

Lesson)

Oct.3Paper One Assigned

Due Oct. 16

Oct.28Short

StoriesExamOct 29

Poetry Unit(Human Emotions

Study)

Nov. 25Paper two Assigned

Dec. 6Poetry and

Human Emotions

Exam

Dec 8Review Day!!!

(Study Hard!!!)

Dec16Fall

Semester

Exam!!!Ok, let’s break this down a bit!

(Major Events)

What’s a Writer’s Journal?A Writer’s Journal is journal or

notebook where students must write (the first five-ten minutes of class) about texts, poems, their themes, lessons discussed in class, concerns they have about papers, things going on in their lives, and certain topics I will provide later each and everyday. ***Writer’s Journal will not be

graded for accuracy but as a completion grade at the end of each week.

So what else will I have to do in Freshman English?

Short Story Unit!!!Allegory

Fantasy Flashback

Foil character

Antagonist

Genre

Hyperbole

Image

Irony

Motif

Personification

Protagonist

These are all terms you will learn, you will also learn…

How do I approach readinga short story?

What terms do I need tounderstand to help me comprehend a short story?

What relationships exist among these stories? *** What connections

can I make between the story and my own Life? ***

Questions You’ll be able to answer at the end of the Short

Story unit!

Michigan Merit CurriculumMichigan Board of Education

When do we start the first paper, you ask?

Papers!Gulp! I can’t write a high

school paper!!!

Tips to avoid stressing out:Follow schedule/research plan handed out in classPick topic earlyMake sure there is enough research on topicStart research earlyCite EVERYTHING!

Need Help with your paper? No problem!

Look at this link!

https://blackboard.cmich.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_109593_1%26url%3d

That’s a good start! We’ll talk poetry at a later date!

Works Cited/ Referenced● Images:

● http://theapple.monster.com/nfs/theapple/attachment_images/0005/7465/shutterstock_23433079_crop380w.jpg ● http://www.fglearyfinearts.ca/newlionread.gif ● http://www.englishonline.org.cn/files/exam_writing.jpg ● http://www.jazznation.com/CBRO/Stuff/Writing%20in%20Journal.gif ● http://www.foodintol.com/images/arcade/Girl%20writing%20in%20journal.jpeg ● http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/scottbennett/web/Image4.jpg ● http://images.paxholley.net/blog/scary_books/monkeys_paw.jpg● http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/youth/teentopix/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/speak.jpg ● http://upsenglish.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/harper-lee.jpg

● Work● http://www.fifeschools.com/cjh/staff/dhockman/documents/LITTERMS9.pdf ● https://blackboard.cmich.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%

2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_109593_1%26url%3d