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Welcome to English 9: Today's Agenda and Activities Overview

Welcome to English 9! This week, we'll explore our agenda, including the Empathy Project and the timeless play "Romeo and Juliet." Get ready to engage in vocabulary exercises and theater activities that enhance your understanding of language and literature. Expect to receive a copy of the play as we read it together, watch film adaptations, and enjoy creative assignments. Remember, your vocabulary exercises are due tomorrow, and late submissions will incur a 10% penalty. Let’s make this week an exciting learning experience!

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Welcome to English 9: Today's Agenda and Activities Overview

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  1. Welcome! English 9

  2. Today’s Agenda • Calendar • Vocabulary unit 13 • The empathy project - questions • Romeo and Juliet – overview Read Write Speak Listen

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

  4. This week’s words (the word list is on page 4) • Affluent • Alleviate • Cede • Collapse • Concession • Elapse • Leaven • Levity • Mellifluous • Recede • Relapse • Superfluous Read Write Speak Listen

  5. This week • This weeks roots (page 78): • FLU - Fluere/Fluctum– to flow • LEV – Levis – light • LAPS - Labi, Lapsus – slip, slide • CED – Cedere, Cessum– to move along, to go Read Write Speak Listen

  6. This week • There will be a 10% penalty if you turn in your vocabulary exercises late. • You can skip exercises V and VI. Read Write Speak Listen

  7. The Empathy Project • Last week, you got all of the assignments for the empathy project. • You watched and read several examples in which people tried to live life like someone else. • Questions??????? Read Write Speak Listen

  8. Romeo and Juliet • We starting a new unit today – we’ll be reading Romeo and Juliet together. • When we are done, everyone will understand the play. Promise! • Many of you will like it. Honest! Read Write Speak Listen

  9. Romeo and Juliet • What you can expect: • You’ll get a copy of the play. We won’t use the one in your giant text book. • We’ll read the play in class together. • We’ll read about an act a week (Shakespeare plays are all 5 acts long). Read Write Speak Listen

  10. Romeo and Juliet • What you can expect: • We’ll read / act out the play together. • Later in the week, we’ll watch the same material from the 1968 version of the film. • At one point, we’ll watch a bit of the 1996 film and compare it to the same scene in the 1968 version. • We’ll do assignments in class to help support the reading. Read Write Speak Listen

  11. Romeo and Juliet • What you can expect: • You won’t have to answer study questions. • There won’t be any tests. • There won’t be any quizzes – although I may slip a few (not more than 5) R&J questions onto the end of vocabulary quizzes. • There will be assignments to support the reading. Generally, there will time in class to do these. Read Write Speak Listen

  12. Romeo and Juliet • What you can expect: • One of the biggest in class assignments involves acting out a scene for the class. • The major “out-of-class” assignment is the final project. This is meant to be a creative option. There are many options, or you might find something you like on your own. • The final project is due when we finish the unit, but some people choose to do it earlier. Read Write Speak Listen

  13. Homework • Vocabulary due tomorrow Read Write Speak Listen

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

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