Grade 9 English Assignments - Term 3 Click on the links to access materials and resources

Syllabus / Course Outline for Term 3, and project break-down. ​
​For Term 1 Click HERE.
For Term 2 Click HERE.
LATE AND RE-SUBMISSIONS of the literary essay and the article (article only, not research pkg) are due in ROOM 109 by June 10th during catch up time (all day) at the latest., that is 3:35pm.
Independent Reading Project(s) to cover what you have read over the year
Tracking Sheet
Storyboard
​Assignment & Rubric
  • PART I - students' design (student's choice) DUE May 5 (now optional and counts for bonus marks; may be submitted up to June 10th)
  • PART II - teacher's design (Reading Memoir Video) DUE June 9, can be June 10th end of ELA catch up day without late marks (3:35pm). BONUS 6% if the video is shared with me in Canva by Friday June 6th 12:00 PM (midnight, not one minute after)
    • ​Package submitted in person in class on June 9th/10th includes: tracking sheet, storyboard & script, and the rubric
There are NO re-submissions allowed on any part of these projects.
Article based on research into a topic of your choice
This project includes a research component: ​List of your personal values; "Some People are More Equal than Others"; ​Research Notesheet
  • Week 1 May 2-11 - find, print, read the 4 articles and fill out notesheet CHKPT #1
  • Week 2 May 12-19 - draft 5 paragraph essay style content & peer review round 1 CHPT #2
  • Week 3 May 20-26 - peer review round 1 content, then format into an article and revise and label techniques and peer review round 2 CHPT #3
  • DUE May 27
5% will be deducted for each checkpoint missed (max. total 15%). LATE penalties: late within one week, lose 5%, late between 7 and 14 days, lose 10%, late beyond two weeks, lose 15%.
Re-submissions will be allowed.
Literary Essay on a full-length narrative film of your choice in any genre 
  • ​By April 17 - you have completed watching your choice of film and filling our your notesheet
  • April 17 - first working period on your essay - following similar steps as the group one - start with choosing your topic and building an outline.
  • CHECKPOINTS:
    • ​April 17 - come to class with notesheet complete, thesis and path statements texted to me in Teams during class, outline complete by end of class
    • April 22 - introduction and at least 1 body paragraph shared with me as editable in word and MLA formatted
    • April 24 - Peer review of the whole essay in class - you need two people
  • DUE: April 28 top of the class
​5% will be deducted for each checkpoint missed (max. total 20%). LATE penalties: late within one week, lose 5%, late between 7 and 14 days, lose 10%, late beyond two weeks, lose 15%. 
Re-submissions will be allowed.
Two-Minute Talks Impromptu-ish (best 2 out of 3, counts for term 3)
  • Round 1 - Dec. 12 (from a-z)​​
  • Round 2 - Before Christmas (33), after Christmas (34) - (from z-a)
  • Round 3 - week of Feb. 11-14, starting mid-alphabet with Matthias (34) and Alexa (33) and going up; then from the middle down.  ​
First weeks Feb. 11 - Mar 28: 
  • Two-minute Talk #3 on the Lens Project (graded)
  • Learning how to analyze film by looking at TV commercials and seeing how literary, cinematic, and theatrical conventions combine for specific effect in moving pictures (ungraded)
  • Doing a literary essay together on The Matrix to prepare for their own individual analyses to films of their choice (ungraded)
    • The Matrix notesheet
    • Timeline after watching the film: 
      • March 28/April 3 - review notes, look at different ways to plan an essay including organizational structures (classification, cause-effect, process/sequence, chronological, problem-solution, compare/contrast). Figure out what is interesting to you. Using ChatGPT to help us brainstorm an outline. In your groups, choose a topic, use ai to create the outline, share the outline with the group, decide who is writing which paragraph, share the editable outline in the channel, and edit the oultine to CRYSTAL clear.
      • April 2-3, drafting your paragraph of the essay (you can use ChatGPT to draft but remember you need to make significant changes so it fits the requirements of this assignment AND is recognized as human generated. See my example.
      • April 4 (33) and April 7 (34) - we are going to put the whole essay together and look at how to build transitions from one paragraph to the next. Every member of the group is reading the whole paper now and you are revising and fine-tuning together. Group leader will ensure MLA formatting.
      • April 10 - Spiro is visiting. We lost time that week, so:
      • April 14 full paper is shared in the Teams group channel and all members edit for structure and content
      • April 15-16 - all members editing for style - this is last class on the group essay
      • April 17 group essay done, 1st period on own essay