9th Grade
Below are the 8 pathways designated for 9th grade. Beneath each one are the subtopics within that pathway that the curriculum committee deemed essential.
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Identify Complete Subjects
Identify Simple Subjects
Identify Pronouns as Subjects**
ID Action & Linking Verbs
Identifying Direct Objects
Identifying Indirect Objects
Identifying Prepositions**
Identifying Prepositional Phrases
Checkpoint: Components of a Sentence I
Identifying FANBOYS
Identifying SWABIs
Identifying THAMOs
Is the Thought Complete or Incomplete?
Identifying Dependent Clauses
Identifying Independent Clauses
Is the Thought Complete or Incomplete?
Identifying Dependent Clauses
Identifying Independent Clauses
Checkpoint: ID Dependent & Independent Clauses
Distinguishing Imperatives and Fragments
Recognizing Prepositional Phrases as Fragments
Recognizing Verbal Phrases as Fragments
Subordinating Conjunctions (SWABIs)
That, Which, & Especially
Conjunctive Adverbs (THAMOs)
ID the Function of FANBOYS**
Evaluating Commas with FANBOYS
Punctuating Compound Sentences with FANBOYS**
ID the Function of THAMOs
Punctuating THAMOs at the Beginning of a Sentence**
Punctuating SWABIs at the Beginning of a Sentence
Punctuating SWABIs in the Middle of a Sentence
Checkpoint: Punctuating SWABIs
What does the Prepositional Phrase Modify?
What does the Participial Phrase Modify?
Identifying Prepositional Phrases
Identifying Relative Clauses
Identifying Participial Phrases
Correcting Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Checkpoint: Identify Correct Modifiers
Does the Sentence Have a Misplaced Modifier?**
Does the Sentence Have a Dangling Modifier**
Checkpoint: Evaluating Sentences with Modifiers
Identifying Verbs in Simple, Progressive, and Perfect Tenses
Is It a Verb or Not a Verb?
Identify Verbals as Subjects
Checkpoint: Identify the Function of Verbals
Lay vs. Lie
Farther vs. Further
Among vs. Between