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Advance English 9 Enrichment ActivitiesThe following optional activities are being suggested for Mrs. Mullin’s and Mrs. Piscopink’s Advanced English 9 classes to help maintain skills and enrich your learning experience at home.Week of March 30thRead “The Man in the Well” and answer the questions provided (both are on the class website - under Night) and/or create a notes page in your notebook that shows the similarities between the short story and Night. Other suggestion: Read the story with your virtual book club, discussing and answering the questions together.Read and annotate “The Perils of Indifference” and answer the questions (on the class website - under Night). Can you connect his speech to current events?Argument Writing Practice: Should high school students read Night?Now that you are (hopefully) done with Night, think about the pros and cons of reading the novel. In your notebook, create a chart where you list the pros on one side and the cons on the other.Suggestion: Discuss with other classmates. Think about how we structured this activity in class – randomly assign each person a side to support and share out your thoughts and opinions (I take the stand that Night should (not) be read because…). Record information from the opposing side in your notebook.Choose one side to support and write a timed Flash Draft. You should give yourself only 20 minutes to write. Remember, it is important that you brainstorm first. You must think about both sides of the argument.When the time is up, review your flash draft. What did you do well on? What could you have improved on? Suggestion: Review your previous Flash Drafts. Have you improved overall since your first attempt? What do you still need to work on?Work on your grammar and writing skills!You should spend time reviewing the following skills (Note: I am including the skills from last week too):Clauses (dependent, independent, noun, adjective, and adverb)Fragments and run-ons Comma rulesParallel StructureColonsSemi-colonsThere are several links on the class website (Helpful Sites) that you can use to review these concepts. Many of the sites provide quizzes with immediate feedback.You can also use Khan Academy to review the skills. I have assigned most of the work through our class, but you can also look them up on your own if you do not remember your sign-on.Suggestion: After practicing with a concept/skill, can you identify them in your own writing? For example, circle all of the commas in one of your paragraphs or essays (reprint from Office 365 if needed). Can you identify the comma rules? Can you recognize different types of clauses or even add them into your writing?Week of March 23rd:Create a virtual book club for Night with 3-5 of your classmates (too many participants might cause the discussion to become too long or to go off task). You must use a platform that allows all of you to talk at the same time – FaceTime, Zoom, etc. If you don’t have contact information for your classmates, ask someone in your family (even outside your own home) to read the novel with you. I would not recommend the novel for anyone under the age of 13.Assign specific chapters to read each day (or to discuss daily if you are done reading)Come prepared to your discussion with your three markings per chapter (see information provided in class or on the class website), plus at least two discussion questions. Discussion questions should not have a right/wrong answer – you want questions that will generate a thoughtful discussion. Remember, there are study guides on the class website that you can use as a guide to begin talking about or reviewing the chapters.I would love to hear what your group discusses! Please feel free to send me your questions/responses, thoughts, opinions, and more. If you send me discussion questions in advance, I will try to respond before your next group meeting. Create a reflection page (one page or a two-page spread) that focuses on what you learned from reading Night and/or focuses on a theme/main idea. I would suggest looking back on the notes you took while reading and the sections you marked in each chapter.The contents of the reflection page are up to you – pictures, quotes, timelines, diagrams, words/phrases, thoughts, opinions, etc. Present your final product to a classmate or a family member. I would also love to see what you came up with! Take a picture and send it to me via Remind or email.Research an element of WWII or the Holocaust that interests you and create something (blog, PPT, Prezi, paragraph/essay, etc) to show what you learned. Review the elements of research, including how to create a Works Cited page, how to properly use internal citations, and how to write summaries and paraphrases.Share what you learned with someone (like me )Work on your grammar and writing skills!You should spend time reviewing the following skills:Clauses (dependent, independent, noun, adjective, and adverb)Noun, adjective, and adverb clause have not been discussed yet, but it would benefit you to start looking at them now.Fragments and run-ons Comma rulesThere are several links on the class website (Helpful Sites) that you can use to review these concepts. Many of the sites provide quizzes with immediate feedback.Suggestion: After practicing with a concept/skill, can you identify them in your own writing? For example, circle all of the commas in one of your paragraphs or essays (reprint from Office 365 if needed). Can you identify the comma rules? Can you recognize different types of clauses or even add them into your writing? ................
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