English 9

Note: Sequencing of units will vary by teacher. Eng 9 page 1Olean High SchoolCourse Name: EnglishGrade 9Time Frame Topic Skills/Concepts MajorAssessments1 week Pre/post assessments Check forSLO’sunderstanding/growth4 weeks What is our relationshipwith the natural world?Students will:- analyze developmentof characters, plot,themes-cite textual evidence tosupport analysisNarrativeparagraphs , unittest, quizzesCore StandardsRL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7ResourcesOld Man and the Sea, “TheScarlet Ibis” – txt pg. 350, “TheSeven Ages of Man” – txt pg.6716 weeks What makes a goodrelationship?Students will:- Recognize majornarrative elements(setting, plot,characterization, pointof view, theme)- Understand purposeof establishing these indrama-Recognize and analyzepoetic terms, such asblank verse, couplet,iambic pentameterDramatic ironyAllusion, punUnit test,quizzes,compare/contrastessay,Romeo & JulietprojectRL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,9The Tragedy of Romeo andJuliet, “The Interlopers”,“Sonnet 30” (text)“Sonnets 18 or 116”, EBB“Sonnet 22”, Folger Libraryessays on marriage and courtingin Elizabethan times, “Ovid”(see packets)

Note: Sequencing of units will vary by teacher. Eng 9 page 23 weeks Where do I belong? Students will:- read short, non-fictionessays for information,analysis, and critique- practice proper MLAformat- practice paraphrasing,summarizing, andintegrating quotes- include parentheticalcitation6 weeks How are power andcontrol exercised?3 weeks How would you definecharacter?Students will:-analyze developmentof characters, plot,themes-cite textual evidence tosupport analysis-Students will:-read short, non-fictionessays for information,analysis, and critique-practice proper MLAformat-practice paraphrasing,summarizing, andintegrating quotes-include parentheticalcitationData set essay(persuasive),quizzesCritical analysis(literary), Unittest, quizzes,Mask ProjectData set essay(persuasive) as atimed writingRI 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7RL 1-6RL 7, 9RL 11W2W3RI 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7Nonfiction-RW: Immigration(data set from Readings forWriters text) multiculturalpoetry, stories, artLord of the Flies“The Most Dangerous Game”,“The Lottery”, “The Raven”(text)“We Grow Accustomed to theDark” Dickinson (packet)Nonfiction-RW: Portrait of theIndividual (data set selectionsfrom Readings for Writers text)

Note: Sequencing of units will vary by teacher. Eng 9 page 35 weeks What is valuable? Students will:-analyze developmentof characters, plot,themes-Cite textual evidenceto support analysis5 weeks Research/Rhetoric-SpeechesAmerican/FoundationalTextsBiographyStudents will:- recognize rhetoricaldevices- investigate topic(speech)- gain an introductionto databases- examine credibility ofweb sources- determine key wordsto streamline searches- discover and practiceproper MLA format- practice paraphrasing,summarizing, andintegrating quotes- include parentheticalcitationUnit test,Compare/contrastessayShort, sustainedresearch project(Power PointPresentation),Speech writing(persuasive),Explanatoryparagraphs withworks citedincluding internalcitationsRL 1-6RL 7, 9RL 11W2W3RI – 1, 2, 4, 5, 9S – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Odyssey, “The Necklace” (text)Yeats – “Leda and the Swan”poem + artwork, + mythPainting “Fall of Troy” (PH FineArt Transparencies #17 and 18)“The Gettysburg Address”Excerpt from Sandburg’s “ALincoln Preface” (text 452)FDR “First Inaugural Address”,King’s “I have a Dream” speech(text)- Students will producea couple of shortresearch projects(power point, oral orparagraph whichinclude works cited

Note: Sequencing of units will vary by teacher. Eng 9 page 4page) – explanatory*Sources given (datasets):3 weeks Poetry Out Loud Students will:- review poetictechniques andstructures- explicate, analyze,memorize poetry- recite poetry frommemoryWrite poetry,recite poetry,poetic term quizRL 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7W 1, 2S 1, 2“My Papa’s Waltz,” Lax poetry,“Ozymandias” & otherekphrastic poetry (see packet),Wordsworth, Dickinson, Hughesothers (see text)Writing TasksGrammarStudents will write:SpeechData Set (persuasive)Research project (persuasive)Critical analysis (lit)NarrativeCompare & ContrastTimed Writingtitle punctuation, parts of speech (including helping, linking, action verbs), simple subject, simple predicate, directobject, complement, prepositional phrases, subordinate / independent clause, comma (elementary functions),apostrophe (do not make plurals using the apostrophe!), capitalization, agreement – subject / verbusage: accept, except affect, effect, all ready, already, all together, altogether, between, among, capital, capitol,choose, chose, could of, desert, dessert, don’t doesn’t, fewer, less, good, well, hear, here, its, it’s, lead, leddouble subject, like, as, loose, lose, of (after another preposition), moral, morale, passed, past, peace, pieceprincipal, principle, than, then, there, they’re, their, threw, through, to, too, two, waste, waist, weather, whetherwhich, that, who, who’s, whose, your, you’re, double negative

Note: Sequencing of units will vary by teacher. Eng 9 page 5Literary TermsRefrain, Rhythm, Dialogue, Simile, Theme, Repetition, Narrative poetry, Plot, Setting, Characterization,Static/Dynamic/Flat/Round Characters, Conflict, Alliteration, Figures of speech: (figurative vs. literal), Mood,Atmosphere, Tone, Flashback, Hyperbole, Image / imagery, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Rhyme(end), Symbol, 1 st vs 3 rd point of view, flashback