Grade 9 Semester 1 [NEW]

Daily / On Going

• SVVSD Routine Writing Handbook

• • The Four-Choice Journal

  • Reader’s Notebook

  • Daybook

  • Interactive Notebook

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

On-Demand: Informative/Explanatory (doc) (Writable)

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

Summative Assessment: Personal Narrative (doc) (Writable)

Summative Assessment: Informative/Explanatory (doc) (Writable)

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

at least 2

• A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (Overdrive)

• Alicia My Story by Alicia Appleman (Overdrive)

• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Ginger Knowlton (Overdrive)

• Collapse by Jared Diamond

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (DMS)

• Getting Away With Murder : The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe (DMS & Overdrive)

• Just Like Us: The True Story of 4 Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe (DMS)

• Kids of Kabul by Deborah Ellis (Overdrive)

• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Overdrive)

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (DMS and Overdrive)

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Overdrive)

• The Rent Collector by Camron Wright (Overdrive)

• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (Overdrive)

• The Wave by Todd Strasser

• The Wednesday Wars by Schmidt (DMS & Overdrive)

at least 4-6

• “Alphabet” by Naomi Shihab Nye

• “City of Specters” by Bandi

• “Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye

• “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (Pair w/ “The Lottery”)

• “‘Help Him Up!’: A Witness’s Account of Panic on a Subway Platform” by Michael Wilson

• “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need” by CommonLit Staff 

• “The Black Man’s Burden” by Reverend H.T. Johnson (Pair w/ “The White Man’s Burden”) 

• “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson (Pair w/ “Harrison Bergeron”)

• “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling (Pair w/ “The Black Man’s Burden”)

• “The Two Brothers” by Leo Tolstoy

• “This is Not Who We Are” by Naomi Shihab Nye (Pair w/“Anti-Social Networks? We’re Just as Cliquey Online”)

at least 2-4

• “American Dream Faces Harsh New Reality” by Ari Shapiro (Pair w/"...Nation of Suburbs.")

• “Anti-Social Networks? We’re Just as Cliquey Online” by Laura Sydell (Pair w/ "This Is Not Who We Are")

• “Aztec Sacrifice” by Mark Cartwright (Pair w/ “The Lottery”)

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

• “Greening the Ghetto” by Majora Carter (TEDEd)

• If the World were 100 People (Visual.ly)

• “Gymnasium” by Mark Cartwright 

• "Help-Giving" by Set to Go

• “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• “The Third Wave” by CommonLit Staff 

• “The US Has Become a Nation of Suburbs” by Christopher Boone (Pair w/"American Dream...")

at least 8-12

• Argument: Community Hub (doc) (Writable)

• Argument: Cultural Common Ground (doc) (Writable)

• Argument: Online Community (doc) (Writable)

• Argument: Romeo & Juliet: Then vs Now (doc) (Writable)

• Informative: Character & Community (doc) (Writable)

• Informative: Found Poem Mash-Up (doc) (Writable)

• Informative: Character Journal Entry (doc) (Writable)

• Informative: What Does This Mean (doc) (Writable)

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

• Blitz: Community Snapshot (doc) (Writable)

• Blitz: Our School as a Community (doc) (Writable)

• 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