English 9

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