Grade 9 Curriculum Outline

Semester 1
1-Literature:

Collection 1:

1-A Quilt of a Country

2-Making the Future Better Together

3-Once Upon a Time

4-Night Calls

5-Rituals of Memory

6-The Gettysburg Address

7-Speech by bill Clinton

8-Views of the Wall/ The Vietnam Wall

Collection 2:

9- I Have a Dream

10- Speech by Robert Kennedy

11-My City,Our Revolution

12-The Censors

13-The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses

Collections 3:

14-When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

15-And of Clay are we Created

16-Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect

17-Animals in Translation

18- The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

19-With Friends Like These

20-At Dusk

21-My Ceremony

22-The Stayer
23-Count on Us

Collection 4:

24-Shakespearean Drama

25-The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

26-Duty

Collection 5:

27-Night

28-Ordinary Man

29-Is Survival Selfish

30-Truth at all Costs

32-Deep Survival

33-The Leap

34-The End and the Beginning

35-The Survivor Poem

-Who understands Me but Me

Collection 6:

36-The Cruelest Journey

37-The Good Soldiers

38-The Real Reasons We Explore Space

39-The Journey

Reading Skills:

1-Evaluate an Argument

2-Analyze author's Choice: Text Structure

3-Determine Central Idea and Supporting Details

4-Analyze Historical Documents

5-Analyze Representations in Different Mediums

6-Analyze Author's Use of Rhetoric Devices

7-Analyze Ideas and Events

8-Analyze the Impact of Word Choice on Tone

9-Analyze Author's Choices

10-Analyze Character, Theme and Patterns of word Change

11-Analyze and Evaluate Author's Claims

12-Analyze Impact of Word Choice: Tone

13-Patterns of Word Change

14-Interpret figurative Language

15-Analyze Purpose and Development of Idea

16-Analyze Ideas

17-Analyze How Modern Artists Transform Source Material

18-Analyze Source Material and Author's Choices

19-Examine Character Traits

20-Analyze Author's Purpose, Rhetoric and Tone

21-Delineate and Evaluate an Argument

22-Analyze Ideas and Events

23- Time Sequence-Cause and Effect

24-Analyze Author's Choices and Make Inferences

25- Determine Figurative Meanings and Tone

26-Analyze Figurative Language

27-Analyze Ideas and Events

28-Delineate and Evaluate an Argument

29-Interpret Figurative Language

30-Support Inferences about Theme

Vocabulary Skills:
1-Patterns of Word Changes

2-Words from Latin

3-Dennotations and Connotations

4-Multiple Meaning Words

5-Analyze figurative Language

6-Words from Greek and Latin

7-Reference Sources: Dictionary/Thesaurus

8-Denotations and Connotations

9-Suffixes that form Nouns

10-Patterns of Word Changes

11-Words from Greek/Suffixes

12-Context Clues

13-Patterns of Word Change

14-Phrasal Verbs and Idioms

15-Synonyms

16-Figurative Language

17-Context Clues

18-Multiple Meaning Words

19-Synonyms/Antonyms

20-Context Clues

21-Prefixes

22-Phrasal Words

23-Words from Latin

24-Dennotations and Connotations

25-Synonyms and Antonyms

26-Multiple Meaning Words

4-Grammar:

1-Noun clauses

2-Prepositional Phrases

3-Parallel Structure

4-Repitition and Parallelism

5-Modifiers
6-Noun Phrases

7-Verb Tenses

8-Colons and Semicolons

9-Adverbial Clauses

10-Colons

11-Using Verb Phrases

12-Understand Participles

13-Adjectives and Adverb Phrases

14-Pronoun Referents

15-Participal Phrases

16-Personal Pronoun Referents

17-Independent and dependent Clauses

18-Verb Tenses

19-Indefinite Pronouns

20-Colons and Semicolons

21-Relative Clauses

22-Sentence Length

23-Conjunctions

24-Transitions

5-Writing

Collection 1 Performance Tasks: 1-Write an Analytical Essay

Collection 2 Performance Tasks :2-Write an Argument

Collection 3 Performance Tasks :3-Write a Fictional Narrative

Collection 4 Performance Tasks: 4-Write an Analytical Essay

Collection 5 Performance Tasks: 5-Write an Argument

Collection 6 Performance Tasks: 6-Research and Write an analytical Essay

7-Personal Narrative: Account

8-Writing a Report
9-Letter Writing

10-Argument

11-Journal Entry

12-Poetry Analysis

13-Announcement

14-Reflection

15- Journal Entries

16-Analysis

17-Argument

18-Reflection

19-Narrative

20-Analysis

21-Editorial