Grade 9 Semester 2 [NEW]

Daily / On Going

• SVVSD Routine Writing Handbook

• • The Four-Choice Journal

  • Reader’s Notebook

  • Daybook

  • Interactive Notebook

On-Demand: Imagined Narrative  (doc) (Writable)

On-Demand: Informative/Explanatory with Research Focus (doc) (Writable)

On-Demand: Argument: Rhetorical Analysis (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Imagined Narrative (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Informative/Explanatory with Research Focus (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Argument: Rhetorical Analysis (doc) (Writable)

at least 2

• Animal Farm by George Orwell 

• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn 

• Factfulness by Hans Rosling

• Feed by M.T. Anderson 

• In Darkness by Nick Lake 

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 

• Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 

• Originals by Adam Grant

• Othello by William Shakespeare 

• Our Town by Thorton Wilder 

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller 

• The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright 

at least 4-6

• “A Prayer for the Living” by Ben Okri (CommonLit)

• “America” by Claude McKay (CommonLit) (Pair w/“The Journalist”) 

• “Burning a Book” by William Stafford (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”) (Pair w/"I Am Very Real")

• “Cultural Common Ground Gets Harder to Come By” by Elizabeth Blair (CommonLit)

• “Excerpt from Five Weeks in a Balloon” by Jules Verne (CommonLit)

• “I Am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandberg (CommonLit)

• “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” by Thomas Gray (CommonLit) (Pair w/"Burning a Book")

• “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson (CommonLit)

• “The Journalist” by J. Patrick Louis (CommonLit) (Pair w/"America")

• “The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher (CommonLit) *Must log in to CommonLit to view text.

• “Why are We Obsessed with Super Heroes?” by ABC News (CommonLit)

at least 2-4

• “Abolishing Slavery: The Efforts of Frederick Douglass & Abraham Lincoln” by Mike Kubic (CommonLit)

• “Conformity” by CommonLit Staff (CommonLit) *Must log in to CommonLit to view text.

• “Eli Wiesel’s ‘The Perils of Indifference’ Speech” by Elie Wiesel (CommonLit)

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• “How do schools of fish swim in harmony?” by Nathan Jacobs (TEDEd)

• “I Am Very Real” by Kurt Vonnegut (CommonLit) (Pair w/ “Burning a Book”) *Must log in to CommonLit to view text.

• “Introduction to the Holocaust” by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (CommonLit)

• “JFK’s ‘Race to Space' Speech” by President John F. Kennedy (CommonLit)

• “Rebel with a Cause: Rebellion in Adolescence” by Dr. Carl Pickhardt (CommonLit)

• “The Kitty Genovese Murder: What Really Happened?” by Jessica McBirney (CommonLit)

• “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds” by Temple Grandin (TEDEd)

• “The Road to American Independence” by Jessica McBirney (CommonLit)

• “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell (CommonLit)

• “Why Do People Follow the Crowd?” by ABC News (CommonLit)

at least 8-12

at least 2-4

• Personal: Turning Points (doc) (Writable)

• Personal: Narrowing the Focus (doc) (Writable)

• Personal: Frozen in Time (doc) (Writable)

• Personal: An Unspoken Rule (doc) (Writable)

at least 2

• Simple Weekly Planner

• ELA Lesson Plan Template

• Extended Text Planner

• Writing Task Planner

• Grades 6-8 ELA Language Expectations 

• Grades 9-12 ELA Language Expectations