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Welcome! . English 9. Today’s Agenda. Quick review of last time Review calendar Vocabulary Unit 3 Review connotation worksheet Journal # 4 “My worst experience with a teacher was…” T,P,S. Review of last time. Vocabulary quiz Reading strategies quiz Connotation vs. denotation.

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  1. Welcome! English 9

  2. Today’s Agenda • Quick review of last time • Review calendar • Vocabulary Unit 3 • Review connotation worksheet • Journal # 4 “My worst experience with a teacher was…” T,P,S Read Write Speak Listen

  3. Review of last time • Vocabulary quiz • Reading strategies quiz • Connotation vs. denotation Read Write Speak Listen

  4. Review of last time • Unhappy with your score on the reading strategies quiz? Choose one of the following re-take options. • Do nothing – only available if you scored 15 or higher. • Write a response to the questions you got wrong. Get ½ credit for each corrected response. • Re-take the test completely and use the better of the two scores as your grade. • Used pictures or images to describe each of the 7 strategies in a way that makes sense to you. Read Write Speak Listen

  5. This week in English 9 • This week in English 9 Read Write Speak Listen

  6. This week’s words (the word list is on page 4) • Abstain • Confound • Deplete • Implement • Infuse • Inhibit • Prohibit • Replete • Retinue • Suffuse • Sustain • Tenacious Read Write Speak Listen

  7. Ten / tain / tin • Latin tenere, tentum, “to hold” • Take a moment to think up a sentence (maybe two) that includes all four words with their intended meaning. So, “Here is my sentence using sustain, abstain, tenacious, and retinue.” doesn’t meet the criteria • For fun, get two English teachers in the same room and ask them if the “Oxford Comma” is necessary. Read Write Speak Listen

  8. Wait you really want more about the Oxford Comma? • Also called the serial comma or the Harvard comma. • How many people are involved in each of the sentences? • I went to Rome with my father, an American, and a Catholic. • I went to Rome with my father, an American and a Catholic. Read Write Speak Listen

  9. Connotation worksheet • Problems, questions, concerns, random thoughts???? Read Write Speak Listen

  10. Journal Entry • Please find a blank page in your journal. Please label the page with today’s date and “Journal Entry # 4.” • Take about 5 minutes, on your own, to write a response to the prompt below • My worst experience with a teacher was??? Read Write Speak Listen

  11. Journal Entry • Find someone near you and talk to him or her about what you wrote. Make sure each of you gets a chance to talk. Read Write Speak Listen

  12. Journal Entry • Share with the class? Read Write Speak Listen

  13. Homework • Work on your descriptive paragraph. • Look at the second page of the odious Speak packet. • For next time, you need to have the “field notes” ready. • Being prepared is fairly critical to our next class, so you’ll only get half credit if your don’t have your notes. Read Write Speak Listen

  14. Bye! • Come back tomorrow! Read Write Speak Listen

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