English 9 Homework Prompts

How to Get to an AI ChatBot

1. Click on the Duck Duck Go Link (below)
2. Click “Get Started”
3. Click on any of the “Chat Models” (AI engines)

You can also go directly to an AI chatbot. ChatCPT is a good option, but you can there using DuckDuckGo (above). The advantage of using DuckDuckGo is that it prevents tracking, which can protect your privacy. (Never enter personal or private information about yourself with an AI Chatbot, as this information is not secure and the AI company can use it.)

How to Format Your Homework

1. Use the Journal Notebook. This goes back and forth from school to home everyday. You may need it on any given day to complete your journal.
2. Just copy the answer, not the prompt. You can cut words and make your answer shorter. Just focus on the point – simple and clear is almost always better.
3. Be sure to start your answer with:
   • According to [name of chatbot], “__________” (ZZ, XX, YY).
4. It is okay to copy the AI’s answer, but you must be transparent and you must never pass it off as your own work (that’s cheating, that’s plagiarism, and that’s a big mistake in high school or college – and because it’s dishonest, it not a good idea even in life outside of school to copy without attribution).
5. The initials above are to show who (if anyone) you worked with. Do this if you plan to copy each others’ work as a team. Copying is ok, but you must be transparent (show what you did).

Prompts 1-50

Week 4/5 – Due Oct. 7 (progress report #1 goes home on Oct. 11)

• (14) Who is Kenneth Branagh, the director of All Is True? Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (15) Who is Gwaai Edenshaw, the director of SGaawaay Ḵ’uuna? Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (16) Who is William Shakespeare, the author Measure for Measure? Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (17) What is the narrative theme, in one word, of the play Measure for Measure by Shakespeare?Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (18) What is the narrative theme, in one word, of the play Measure for Measure by Shakespeare? The answer cannot be “justice” or anything related to the idea of justice. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (19) What is the narrative theme, in one word, of the play Measure for Measure by Shakespeare? The answer cannot be “justice” or anything related to the idea of connection and cannot be “hypocrisy” or anything related to the idea of hypocrisy. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (20) What is the narrative theme, in one word, of the play Measure for Measure by Shakespeare? The answer cannot be “justice” or anything related to the idea of justice and cannot be “hypocrisy” or anything related to the idea of hypocrisy or “mercy” or anything related to mercy. Answer must be 100 words or less.

Week 3 – Due Sept 23

• (10) Summarize the plot, theme, and character development of the film “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” (1996 version). Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (11) Summarize the plot, theme, and narrative arc of the film “The Outsiders”. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (12) Summarize the plot, theme, and narrative arc of the film “The Giver”. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (13) Define “cognitive tool” and explain how an essay is a cognitive tool, according to Vygotsky’s theory of ZPD. Answer must be 100 words or less.

Week 2 – Due Sept 16

• (5) Define theory in the context of a humanities course at the high school level. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (6) Define thesis and explain how to write an effective thesis statement for a Grade 9 paper in English class. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (7) Define system and explain how systems thinking and writing an essay at the high school level are connected processes. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (8) Define theme in the context of a narrative text used at the undergraduate level and explain how to develop a theme in your own essay writing at the undergraduate level. Answer must be 100 words or less.
• (9) Explain the difference between a theme and a topic when writing a Grade 9 essay in English class. Answer must be 100 words or less.

Week 1 – Due Sept 9

1. Define elements of narrative. Explain how Lois Lowry uses the elements of narrative in the novel The Giver. Include a passage from the book, either as a direct quote or a paraphrase. Answer must be 100 words or less.
2. Define love. Provide short examples of this definition from each of the following three texts: Romeo and Juliet, The Giver, and The Outsiders. Summarize how the author of each text defines “love”. Answer must be 100 words or less.
3. Compare how the theme of love is visually explored in these three films: Romeo + Juliet (1996 version), The Giver, and The Outsiders. Describe how each film conveys the idea of love. Answer must be 100 words or less.
4. Explain how one word, love, can be used to both describe romance between lovers and the love between an infant child and their parent? When Martin Luther King Jr. speaks of love, how does this connect to these other kinds of love? Use a quote or paraphrase from Martin Luther King Jr. to develop and support your point. Answer must be 100 words or less.