Ninth graders need to bring their school issued ipads, a spiral notebook, and a pencil to class every day. They also need to bring their Independent reading books every day.



Students need to bring their writer's notebook, and a pencil to class every day!



The best way to learn to write fluently is to practice. Every day at the beginning of class the ninth graders have been free-writing. They've written in response to poems, and they've written about experiences they've had.

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Our first literary unit will be built around the theme:

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
               -To Kill a Mockingbird

The ninth graders chose the book they would be reading for our first unit. They will be reading The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. The play is about love, and vengeance and religious persecution in the city of Venice.

 

Students also chose books that fit with the unit theme to read together in small literature circles.