English 9

Dear Students:

Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful spring break. It's time to come back and hit it hard. Our semester, indeed our school year, is near closing and we have quite a b it to still accomplish. Give it your all and finish strongly. Be encouraged!

"Start by doing what's necessary , then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

St. Francis of Assisi

Mrs. Adams

April 7-13, 2013

Mon, Apr 8

Grammar: Start chpt. 6: Prepositons, Conjunctions and Interjections p. 142 Do 6-1 through 6-3 in class. See below for objectives.

LIT:

Sp/Voc: unit 14 homework and drill will be Thursday.

Tues., Apr 9

Grammar: Functions of prepostional phrases pp. 144-145 and do 6-4 and 6-5 in class. Using prepostions correctly and troublesome prepostions pp. 146-147 and do 6-6 and 6-7 in class. Any unfinished work will be homework.

LIT:

Sp/Voc:

Wed., Apr 10

Grammar: Go over any homework  and teach students to diistinguish between prepostions and adverbs Do 6-8 and 6-9 in class on p. 148. Misplaced prepostional phrases on p. 150 and do 6-10 and 6-11. Any unfinished work will be homework due on Friday. 

LIT:

Sp/Voc: Unit 14 homework due and review and drill today.

Thurs., Apr 11

Grammar: If we finish sp/voc early please work on Wednesday's assignment.

LIT:

Sp/Voc: Homework and review day!

Fri., Apr 12

Grammar: Go over any grammar homework from Wednesday.

LIT: Read " A Just Judge" by Leo Tolstoy on p. 137 and we will discuss the questions.

Sp/Voc. Unit 14 quiz.

 

Grammar Objectives- Chapter 6

Students will

  1. identify prepositions, objects of prepositions, and prepositional phrases in sentences.
  2. differentiate adjectival prepositonal phrass from adverbial prepositional phrases.
  3. supply prepositional phrases for sentences.
  4. select the correct preposition to complete a sentence.
  5. distinguish between a prepositon and an adverb by using the context of a sentence.
  6. write sentences using prepositions correctly.
  7. distinguish between coordinating conjunctions and correlative conjunctions in sentences.
  8. write sentences using coordinating and correlative conjunctions correctly.
  9. identify subordinating conjunctions in sentences.
  10. write sentences uning subordinating conjunctions correctly.
  11. identify interjections in sentences.
  12. wrote sentences uning interjections correctly.
  13. distinguish between prepositions, conjunctions and interjections in sentences.

 

April 14-20, 2013

 

Mon. Apr. 15

Grammar: Go over and check 6-12- 6-14 and teach subordinating conjunctions p. 157. Do 6-15 in class and 6-16 - 6.19 maybe homework.

Tues. Apr 16

Grammar: Check hw 6-16- 6-19 and teach interjections. Any unfinished work is homework.

Wed. Apr. 17

Grammar: Check any homework and do 6-20 and review worksheets.

Thurs. Apr 18

Grammar: Go over review sheets and do the review in the book.

Fri. Apr 19

Grammar: Pretest 6 and the test will be April 29 due to SAT testing.