English 9

Course Description

This freshman-year English course invites students to explore diverse texts across 12 unit topics. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts both classic and contemporary. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students will master comprehension and literary-analysis strategies. Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are tasks that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. Students will read a range of classic texts including Homer’s The Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” They study short but complex texts, including influential speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. Contemporary texts by Richard Preston, Julia Alvarez, and Maya Angelou round out the course.

Guided Notes

Semester 1

Semester 2

Project Documents

For the projects that have Google Doc Templates, you will be asked to make a copy when you open that file. After completing the assignment, you will do a File->download as Microsoft (docx, xlsx, pptx) product so that you can upload it into your Edgenuity assignment. If you need help with this process, on the Edgenuity Page of this website there is a short video of the process.

Creating a Blog

Creating a Multimedia Presentation

Creating a PSA

Creating a Storyboard

Group Discussion - Fast Food Nation

Poetry Recitation