Course Description: 9th Grade English

English 9 Assignments for Week #3

DAY 1:
   READ: "The Coming of the Immortals", from Tales of the Greek Heroes, by Roger Lancelyn Green
   READ: "The Writing Process", from Writer's INC. (WI), pp. 1-8
   WRITE: "Five basic sentence patterns", from WI, pp. 80-84

DAY 2:
   READ: poem about Atlas from Hesiod.
   READ: "Basic definitions and sentence parts," in Handbook of Grammar and Composition (HGC), 1.1-2.32
   BEGIN: research on chart for Mr. Grissom's history assignment
   STUDY: Vocabulary assignment

DAY 3:
   READ: "Atlas" by Lucille Clifton.
   READ: "Fragments and run-ons," HGC, 13.1-14.2
   READ: "The writing process," HGC, 43
   CONTINUE: work on chart for Mr. Grissom's history assignment
   REVIEW: Vocabulary assignment
   COMPLETE: Practice Quiz on poems.

DAY 4:
   READ: "Atlas" by Lucille Clifton.
   COMPLETE: work on chart for Mr. Grissom's history assignment
   REVIEW: Vocabulary assignment
   RETAKE: Practice Quiz on poems (if necessary)
   COMPLETE: Final Quiz on poems (this can be completed as late as 12:00 p.m. of the following Monday)