9th Grade Lit. & Comp.

Week of August 23 - 27

Essential Questions
1. What are the elements of a short story?
2. How do authors effectively use literary elements to create purpose and meaning in a short
fiction text?
3. How does understanding the parts and meanings of words help students comprehend oral and
written language?
Standards - RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5, L3

Monday, 8/23
1. DGP Warm-up #3: Capitalization/Punctuation
1. Grammar: comma rules
2. Finish Alfred Hitchcock’s film “Lamb to the Slaughter”
3. DUE: Movie Review
4. Intro to “The Most Dangerous Game” (author, historical/social context)
5. Prereading: quotes for discussion
HW: Study and complete vocab. notecards for extra credit.

Tuesday, 8/24
1. DGP Warm-up #3: Parts of speech
2. Grammar: Verbals - gerunds, participles, infinitives 
3. STAR 360
4. “TMDG”: Begin reading and answering questions 
5. Activity 

Wednesday, 8/25
1. Warmup/DGP #3: Sentence Parts & Phrases
2. Grammar: Direct Objects
3. Vocab 3 Review 
4. “TMDG”: Continue reading and answering questions

Thursday, 8/26
1. Warmup/DGP #3: Clauses & Sentence Type
2. “TMDG”: finish reading
HW: study for Vocab quiz 

Friday, 8/27
1. Warm-up/DGP #3: Diagramming
2. Vocab 3 Quiz
3. Vocab 4 definitions 
4. Finish “TMDG” questions – answer thoroughly!
5. Introduce personal narrative essay