Category: Lesson Plan

Grade 10, Lesson Plan

CLASSWORK FOR GRADE 10, MAY 6

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Abigail Adams: Persuading Her Husband

Abigail Adams: Persuading Her Husband

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was the wife of Founding Father John Adams. While he attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1776, Abigail wrote to her husband often. Below is part of her letter from March 31, 1776.

I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex; regard us then as beings placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.What is Abigail trying to convince her husband to do? Give two examples of how she attempts to persuade him.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Key Vocabulary words:

Law maker- ancestors- tyrants- foment rebellion- bound- Providence- Protection- Persuade

Grade 9, Lesson Plan

Grade 9 Homework due on May 6

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Excerpt from :The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

http://englishlinx.com/cgi-bin/pdf_viewer_5.cgi?script_name=%2Fpdf%2F8th-Adventures-of-Tom-Sawyer.pdf&x=111&y=19

Read the text ” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, which is a passage from Mark Twain’s novel with the same title . Then answer the comprehension questions that follow it. Remember: A sentence which holds the main idea of a text makes its topic sentence, which gets developed further on by following sentences. Those sentences are called “supporting sentences.”

Key Vocabulary Words Explained:

1- Restless;

2- prayer:

3- Despair:

4- Fidgeted:

5- Eternity:

6- Graveyard:

7- Snore:

You can read about the novel here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer

Grade 9, Lesson Plan, Uncategorized

Grade 9 HW for April 22

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Grade 9 Homework: Reading and Comprehension

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/graded-reading/amazing-adventurers-level-1

Read the following paragraphs then answer the True/False questions:

Amazing adventurers

Do you ever dream about climbing Mount Everest or visiting Antarctica? If so, you’re not alone. Every year, thousands of people try to climb the world’s highest mountains or walk across continents. Let’s take a look at some of the 21st century’s greatest adventurers.

Amazon adventurer

Ed Stafford from the UK is the first person to walk along the Amazon River from the mountains of Peru to the mouth of the river in Brazil. His amazing journey took two years and four months. There are many dangerous animals in the rainforest, like snakes and crocodiles, but Ed was lucky; he was only bitten by ants and mosquitoes. On his trip, Ed had to find fruit and nuts or catch fish each morning. Sometimes food was hard to find and Ed was often tired and hungry.

Technology was very important for Ed. He used a radio to ask the people of the rainforest for food and help. Many people came to meet him and guide him through the rainforest. While he walked, Ed wrote a blog to tell the world about climate change and destruction of the rainforest.

A mountain climber

Did you know that more than 4,000 people have climbed Everest? Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria is one of them. She is one of the world’s greatest climbers and has climbed all the world’s mountains over 8,000 metres. It’s very difficult to climb in cold weather and storms, but Gerlinde loves it. She started climbing as a teenager in the mountains near her home. When she left school she became a nurse but always went climbing in her free time. Now she spends her time climbing and helping a charity for poor children in Nepal.

More than one adventure

Some adventurers are always looking for a new challenge. Meagan McGrath from Canada has climbed mountains, ridden a bike across Canada and run races in the desert. But her most incredible journey was a skiing trip to the South Pole. As she skied, Meagan pulled a sledge with a tent and all her food. She skied through terrible storms and freezing temperatures for forty days till she arrived at the South Pole.

Erik Weihenmayer from the United States has climbed mountains and ridden a bike through deserts. Amazingly, Erik is blind and he wants other blind people to have active lives too. He has taken groups of young blind people climbing in Nepal.

Where next?

Technology is a big help for adventurers but the world is still a dangerous place and it’s very important to prepare well. If you dream of being an adventurer, there will always be continents to walk across and mountains to climb!

I- Answer the following questions. Say whether they are true or false?

Ed Stafford walked along the Amazon from Brazil to the mountains of Peru.
-True or False
Ed’s walk along the Amazon took 28 months.
True or False
Ed was bitten by a snake in the rainforest.
True or False
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner climbed for the first time when she was a nurse.
True or False
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner helps a charity for blind people.
True or False
Meagan McGrath had bad weather on her skiing trip to the South Pole.
True or False
II- Make sentences with the following words:
1- Terrible:
2- Skied:(To ski)
3- Blind:
4-  important:
5- Amazing:
Grade 9, Lesson Plan

Conditional Sentences for Grade 9, April 12!

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Conditional Sentences: Explanation and Use

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences.

Objective: Grade 9 students should be able to use the three types of conditional sentences, know their differences and use them in every day life.

Procedure: Explain the three types of sentences one by one, do exercises on them, then go to the next type.

Result: Cover one of the basic objectives grade 9 Grammar.

Grade 10, Grade 9, Lesson Plan, Projects

Just another Manic Monday: APRIL 1 Grade 9 AND 10 READINGS AND DISCUSSIONS EXCLUSIVELY IN ENGLISH!!!

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Just another Manic Monday

 

Just another Manic Monday

 ~ MARILYN

“Just another Manic Monday, Wish it were Sunday, ‘Cause that’s my Fun day,  My I don’t have to run day, Just another Manic Monday!”

It’s Monday and I sit at my cubicle just about to begin another day of work.  Monday mornings are never easy. Inevitably there is a certain amount of chaos.   The chores that were forgotten during the weekend suddenly matter as I scramble for socks, my lunch and wonder why I didn’t pick up any snacks (let alone healthy!) for school lunches. The words from this song by the Bangles has a catchy tune and a way of getting inside my head every Monday.

In the past few years my view of work has dramatically altered.  Two bouts of unemployment with 5 children to feed, clothe and house, a recession,  plus watching my adult children and others struggle to find employment are just a couple of the reasons for this change.

Ask anyone who has gone through unemployment and they will look you straight in the eye and tell you what a gift work is.  The uncertainty of getting up in the morning and wondering if today would be the day when that phone call comes saying those precious words “We’d like to offer you the job” is not forgotten once a job is found – sometimes after 2 months, other times after 2 years. 

Most people who have been unemployed don’t join with our culture in obsessing over the longed for 2-week vacations a year.  Pictures of these vacations to sunny, palm treed islands or exotic foreign wonderlands decorate cubicles and serve as conversations  over lunch on arrival back home. A casual observer could make the assumption that the only reason to work is to plan and budget for these times.  (Lest anyone think I’m a Scrooge over vacations, I have to tell you, I love time off!  I love vacations, I love beaches, I really love exotic foreign wonderlands.)  Where my view has significantly altered is  not working with those 2 weeks a year as an incentive, the rest of work an unfortunate side effect of the fall of man.  What some have written about as the “Theology of Work”.

A friend of mine in a spiritual formation program sent off an email to many of her contacts a couple of years ago. Attached to the email was an essay on work.  I believe she was able to dig deeply into this subject. Although I don’t remember the specifics,  it put into words much of what I have thought and how I have changed in the past years.  Seeing work as blessing not burden,  as a calling not a drudgery.  More than that, understanding something of  how a creative God works – and how a people made in the image of God could reflect this part of his character.

It’s with these thoughts in mind that I sign off from my blog, close my personal email, and log-in to my work email account facing what is a part of my world today.

In the words of my Portuguese colleague (who hasn’t attended a church for years but has a God-given theology of work) words  spoken without an ounce of cynicism or irony:

Aren’t we blessed Marilyn?  Aren’t we blessed?

http://www.thewitness.org/generalconvention03/TheologyOfWork.ps-.pdf – Take a look at this essay and some of the thoughts penned on work.  You may not agree with all of it, but it gives some good food for thought.

Vocabuary Words:

1- cubicle
/ˈkjuːbɪk(ə)l/
noun
a small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a shower or toilet, or a desk in an office.
“each cubicle is equipped with a PC and printer, and there are two fax machines in the east alcove”
2-“domestic drudgery.
noun
3- scramble
/ˈskramb(ə)l/
verb
a-make one’s way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one’s hands as well as one’s feet.
“we scrambled over the damp boulders”
b- order (a fighter aircraft or its pilot) to take off immediately in an emergency or for action.
“the Hurricanes were scrambled again, this time meeting Italian flight.
4- unemployment
/ʌnɪmˈplɔɪm(ə)nt,ʌnɛmˈplɔɪm(ə)nt/
noun
a.the state of being unemployed.
“the serious level of unemployment among school-leavers”
b.the number or proportion of unemployed people.
Comprehension Questions:
1- What point of view does the author use?
2- What is the topic sentence, the main idea of the first paragraph?
3- What is the main idea of the text?
4- Is theology of work/study important? Explain.
  • Point of view is the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. In literature, point of view is the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a story, poem, or essay.
  • A topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph. Sometimes referred to as a focussentence, the topic sentence helps organize the paragraph by summarizing the information in the paragraph. In formal writing, the topic sentence is usually the first sentence in a paragraph (although it doesn’t have to be).
Lyrics
Manic Monday
The Bangles
Six o’clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin’ Valentino
By a crystal blue Italian stream
But I can’t be late
‘Cause then I guess I just won’t get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made
It’s just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
‘Cause that’s my fun day
My I don’t have to run day
It’s just another manic Monday
Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane
I still couldn’t make it on time
‘Cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I’m gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the…
Grade 10, Grade 9, Lesson Plan

Phrasal Verbs Part 1 for Tuesday March 12

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1: GO ON = happen

  • What’s going on?
  • There’s a class going on at the moment.
  • What went on last night?

2: PICK UP = get something or someone from a place

  • I picked up my brother from the airport.
  • Please pick up some bread.
  • Would you come and pick me up from work tonight?

3: COME BACK = return to a place (the speaker is in that place)

  • She came back around 10pm last night.
  • When will you come back from France?
  • Please come back! It’s boring here without you.

4: COME UP WITH = produce an idea

  • Julie came up with a great idea.
  • He came up with an answer to the question very quickly.
  • Can you come up with a better solution?

5: GO BACK = return to a place (the speaker isn’t in that place)

  • He finished his work and went back to his flat.
  • When is she planning to go back to Japan?
  • I’ll go back to the library later.

6: FIND OUT = get information

  • Can you find out what time the restaurant opens?
  • I found out that we need to submit our essays next Tuesday.
  • I don’t know what the weather forecast is for tomorrow, but I’ll find out.

7: COME OUT = appear from a place

  • She came out of the kitchen.
  • He went to the cafe and came out with a coffee.
  • Please come out of the bedroom.

8: GO OUT = go to an event / restaurant / pub / party

  • Let’s go out for dinner.
  • You’re going out a lot these days.
  • We should go out more.

9: POINT OUT = show / mention

  • She pointed out the beautiful paintings on the walls.
  • Please point out to the students that they must attend all the lectures.
  • ‘We’ll miss the bus if we don’t hurry’, he pointed out.

10: GROW UP = become an adult

  • I grew up in Scotland.
  • My children are growing up too fast!
  • When will he grow up?

11: SET UP = create / arrange

  • I need to set up a new bank account.
  • She’s decided to set up her own company.
  • I set up some language classes at the school.

12: TURN OUT = in the end we discover

  • The maid turned out to have stolen the money.
  • He turned out to be a friend of Alex’s.
  • The party turned out to be a big success.

13: GET OUT = leave a room / building / car

  • I need to get out of the house!
  • She got out of the car and went into the shop.
  • Get out! There’s a fire in the kitchen!

14: COME IN / INTO = enter (the speaker is in that place)

  • Please come in! It’s great to see you.
  • She came into the living room and sat down.
  • Don’t come in! I’m not ready yet!

15: TAKE ON = to be responsible for

  • He’s going to take on the new project.
  • She isn’t taking on any new students at the moment.
  • Could you take on some extra work?

Try an exercise about these phrasal verbs here.

Phrasal Verbs 1

Put in the correct phrasal verb (choose from the Phrasal Verbs 1 list)

1) Can you

(think of an idea) a better idea?

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2) She

(showed / mentioned) that the shops would be closed.

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3) I wish I hadn’t

(become responsible for) so much work!

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4) I

(went to an event) for dinner with my husband last night.

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5) He

(entered a place where the speaker is) the kitchen and made some tea.

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6) Where did you

(become an adult)?

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7) I’d love to

(arrange / create) my own business.

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8) I really want to

(leave a building) of this office and go for a walk.

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9) As I arrived, he

(appeared from a place) of the door.

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10) She

(got something from a place) some dinner on the way home.

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11) Could you

(get information) what time we need to arrive?

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12) I thought the conference was going to be boring, but it

(in the end we discovered) to be quite useful.

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13) What time did you

(return to a place where the speaker is) last night?

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14) She

(appeared from a place) of the cafe and put on her gloves.

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15) A performance

(is happening) at the moment.

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16) He

(left a car) of the car.

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17) He

(went to an event) a lot at the weekend, so he’s tired today.

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18) Can we

(arrange / create) a meeting next week?

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19) Would anybody like to

(become responsible for) this new client?

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20) He

(returned to a place where the speaker is) before I left.

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21) It’s lovely watching my children

(become adults).

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22) She

(returned to a place where the speaker is not) to school.

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23) He

(showed / mentioned) the stars to the children.

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24) He

(returned to a place where the speaker is not) to Poland last year.

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25) He

(thought of an idea) a solution.

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26) Please

(enter a place where the speaker is).

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27) At the end of the film it

(in the end we discovered) that John was a good guy.

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28) Could you

(get someone from a place) Lucy later?

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29) We need to

(get information) how much it costs.

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30) What

(‘s happening)?

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