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Quarter 4 Assignment

This page contains work I completed in my 9th grade English class with Ms. McGruther.

9th Grade ELA

Quarter 4 Assignment

The Other Wes Moore Journals

The Other Wes Moore Journals

Due Date: May 22, 2017

Assignment: After reading a required section given by the teacher, we were assigned to pick two quotes from each chapter and explain similarities, universal statements, and compare and contrast.

Glows: For this assignment, I made really good universal statements and was able to insight different meanings for each quote.

Grows: For a part of my question, I could have gone a little deeper and had a deeper insight to one of my statements.

Quarter 4 Assignment

Quarter 3 Assignment

Literary Analysis Essay A Thousand Splendid Suns

Due Date: March 21, 2017

Assignment: After reading the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by the author Khaled Hosseini I was to write a literary analysis essay trying to develop a universal statement the novel taught the readers. 

Glows: For this assignment, I as able to develop a universal statement and support the statement using textual evidence.

Grows: For this assignment, I could try to announce my evidence less and just explain my evidence.

Quarter 3 Assignment

Quarter 2 Assignment

Literature Circle Discussion #3

Due Date: February 3, 2017

Assignment: Pick a literature discussion role, (in this case I chose Literary Luminary) find 2 literary devices in the section of the novel we are reading and write our findings. There is also a creative component and I chose to make a digital poster about the literary device I found and how it is incorporated in the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

Grows: I could have written my claims in universal terms.

Glows: I had clear evidence, detailed explanations, and creativity.

 

Quarter 1 Assignment

Argumentative Essay: The Struggle for Freedom

Due Date: November 7, 2016

Project Overview: This assignment was to write an argumentative essay on the struggle for freedom and support my claim with textual evidence.

Glow: In this assignment I did well on giving proper evidence for my stance.

Grow: I could work on having a universal thesis for my essay.

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