CPS Teachers: Blank Weekly Lesson Plan Document

Teachers accessing this site are welcome to the resources and ideas presented here. If you are not a Curie teacher and find a handout or activity (directly from this site) that you'd like to use, please contact me first at sspach@hotmail.com.

Please be patient. Page under reconstruction.

Writing-Focused Units & Projects

Narrative Writing Units: 2004 (w/ Mythology) | 2003

Argumentative Writing Units: 2004 (w/ Mock Trial) | 2003 (w/ Prop. 187 Packet)

 

Reading/Literature-Focused Units & Projects

Warriors Don't Cry : WebQuest 2003 | WebQuest 2002

Brave New World

Catcher in the Rye (Independent Study Project)

Poetry Unit

 

 

• Mini-Research Work
• Greek Mythology Unit
• (Un)reliable Narrator Unit
• Othello

For more information about the 9th grade course curriculum at Curie, please check out the "Survey Literature Course Handbook for Teachers" being developed by our 9th Grade Curriculm Team.

• Summer Assignments
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Close Reading Assignments
• Sylvia Plath & Dionne Brand
• Virginia Woolf (includes syntax and cadence lessons)
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Oedipus the King
• King Lear
• Death of a Salesman
• 'Master Harold' ...and the Boys
• Hamlet & Lingering Questions
• Essay Assignments
• A Doll's House
• College Writing Unit
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Essay/Paper Writing Links

• Extended Essay Schedule
• IB World Literature Papers Check List
• The Rhetorical Situation
• Writing a Paper Proposal
• Critical Reflections on Your Writing

AP/IB Assessment Preparation

• Oral Commentary Preparation
• How to Build a Commentary
• How to Develop a Commentary (2003)
• Sample Commentaries
• IB/AP Exam Preparation

 

Team Building Activities

• Survivor Game, Part One
• Survivor Game, Part Two