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English Grade 9
This course is for students with eighth grade English grammar skills. Composition and literature will be combined. Students are introduced to research writing, and one brief research project is required. Students are required to read several extended works in addition to studying the class text. Many more sophisticated literary elements are introduced and reinforced. Students are required to read outside of class. This course fulfills the 9th grade English requirement for graduation.
Prerequisites: None
English Grade 9 Advanced
(0.2 grade weight)
This course includes all aspects of Honors Freshman English with a greater emphasis on literary analysis in the development of writing skills. Students who are high achievers in eighth grade language arts should take this course as a foundation for Advanced Placement courses. The focus is on greater exposure to all forms of literature, with a special emphasis on mythology, legend, narrative fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Students will study text that could include: To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, and Fahrenheit 451. Students will also read short stories and poetry. In addition to the required 9th grade language arts curriculum, students will be instructed in critical reading, writing, and study skills; aspects of using primary and secondary sources in research will be introduced and utilized, especially in the use of technology to find, evaluate, synthesize, and present information. This course fulfills the 9th grade English requirement for graduation.
Tentative Course Content:1st Semester:• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”• Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird• Langston Hughes’ “Dreams” and “Dream Deferred”• Maya Angelou’s “I know why the caged bird • Georgia Douglas Johnson’s “Common Dust”• Natasha Trethewey’s “Elegy for the Native Guards”• Robert Hayden’s “The Whipping”• Homer’s The Odyssey• William Carlos Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”• Margaret Atwood’s “Eurydice”• Linda Pastan’s “You are Odysseus”• Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song”
2nd Semester:• Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet• Robert Frost’s “The Silken Tent”• William Shakespeare’s “The Seven Ages of Man”• William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 138”• E.E. Cummings’ “here is little Effie’s head”• Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”• John Clare’s “I Am!”• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451• Emily Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”• Walt Whitman’s “No Labor-Saving Machine”• Edgar Allan Poe’s “Sonnet—To Science”
Prerequisites: None
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