English 9 Teachers: Muktaru Jalloh Kathleen Machan Devin Shirley - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

English 9 Teachers: ● Muktaru Jalloh ● Kathleen Machan ● Devin Shirley ● Craig Stephens

English 9 Core Components ● Cornell Notes ● Annotating Text ● Double-chunk Paragraphs ● MLA

English 9 Core texts: ● The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ● The Odyssey ● TO Kill a Mockingbird ● Plus selected works by teachers ● Short stories ● Novels ● Night ● The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian ● Etc…

Cornell Notes ● Two columns ● Main ideas and critical thinking questions ● How do we organize our thinking? ● How do we make inferences and read beyond the explicit text?

Annotating Text ● Writing into the passage (“close reading”) ● Active vs. Passive reading ● Elicits critical thinking ● Captures first thoughts and helps to organize ideas

Double-chunk Paragraphs ● Analytical, evidence-based writing ● Teaches the necessary components of a quality academic paragraph ● How to support a claim using evidence and commentary ● Building-wide (part of school wide literacy intiative)

MLA Formatting ● “Modern Language Association” ● Standard format for academic papers in the humanities ● How to cite sources and not plagiarize

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