Grade 9 English Curriculum

Students will: 

• Use vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• Use a variety of strategies to listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Respond thoughtfully and tactfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
• Evaluate impact, purpose, point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric of presentation(s).
• Use self-reflection to evaluate one’s own role in preparation and participation in small-group activities.
• Determine the purpose of the media message and its effect on the audience.
• Examine how values and viewpoints are included or excluded and how the media can influence beliefs, behaviors, and interpretations.
• Describe possible cause and effect relationships between mass media coverage and public opinion trends.
• Monitor, analyze, and use multiple streams of simultaneous information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet when evaluating or producing creative or informational media messages.
• Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.
• Explain the relationships between and among elements of literature: characters, plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
• Analyze the cultural or social function of a literary text.
• Explain the relationship between the author’s style and literary effect.
• Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work.
• Compare and contrast authors’ use of literary elements within a variety of genres.
• Analyze how the author’s specific word choices and syntax impact the author’s purpose.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions using references from the text(s) for support.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information using evidence from text as support.
• Analyze the author’s qualifications, viewpoint, and impact.
• Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize ideas, while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events, within and between texts.
• Analyze, organize, and synthesize information in order to solve problems, answer questions, complete a task, or create a product.
• Analyze ideas within and between selections providing textual evidence.
• Engage in writing as a recursive process.
• Plan, organize, and write for a variety of audiences and purposes.
• Objectively introduce and develop topics, incorporating evidence and maintaining an organized structure and a formal style.
• Blend multiple forms of writing including embedding a narrative to produce effective essays.
• Clearly state and defend a position using reasons and evidence from credible sources as support.
• Determine the best kind of evidence to use for a claim, and effectively use fact and opinion to support a position.
• Use textual evidence to compare and contrast multiple texts.
• Arrange paragraphs in a logical progression, using transitions between paragraphs and ideas.
• Revise writing for clarity of content, accuracy, and depth of information.
• Use a variety of sentence structures to infuse sentence variety in writing.

Students will: 

• Make strategic use of multimodal tools.
• Use vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• Assist with setting rules for group work including informal consensus, taking votes on key issues, presentation of alternate views and goal setting.
• Assume responsibility for specific group tasks.
• Share responsibility for collaborative work.
• Use a variety of strategies to listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Respond thoughtfully and tactfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
• Evaluate impact, purpose, point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric of presentation(s).
• Use self-reflection to evaluate one’s own role in preparation and participation in small-group activities.
• Analyze and interpret special effects used in media messages.
• Monitor, analyze, and use multiple streams of simultaneous information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet when evaluating or producing creative or informational media messages.
• Use context, structure, and connotations to determine meanings of words and phrases.
• Discriminate between connotative and denotative meanings and interpret the connotation.
• Explain the meaning of literary and classical allusions and figurative language in text.
• Extend general and cross-curricular vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.
• Explain the relationships between and among elements of literature: characters, plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
• Interpret how themes are connected across texts.
• Analyze the cultural or social function of a literary text.
• Explain the relationship between the author’s style and literary effect.
• Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work.
• Compare and contrast authors’ use of literary elements within a variety of genres.
• Analyze how the author’s specific word choices and syntax impact the author’s purpose.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions using references from the text(s) for support.
• Compare/contrast details in literary and informational nonfiction texts.
• Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Apply knowledge of text features and organizational patterns to understand, analyze, and gain meaning from texts.

Students will: 

• Make strategic use of multimodal tools.
• Credit information sources.
• Use vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• Use a variety of strategies to listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Respond thoughtfully and tactfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
• Evaluate impact, purpose, point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric of presentation(s).
• Use self-reflection to evaluate one’s own role in preparation and participation in small-group activities.
• Analyze the purpose of information and persuasive techniques used in diverse media formats.
• Evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind media presentation(s).
• Evaluate sources including advertisements, editorials, political cartoons, and feature stories for relationships between intent and factual content.
• Monitor, analyze, and use multiple streams of simultaneous information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet when evaluating or producing creative or informational media messages.
• Use context, structure, and connotations to determine meanings of words and phrases.
• Identify the meaning of common idioms.
• Extend general and cross-curricular vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.
• Explain the relationships between and among elements of literature: characters, plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
• Interpret how themes are connected across texts.
• Compare and contrast the use of rhyme, rhythm, sound, imagery, and other literary devices to convey a message and elicit the reader’s emotion.
• Analyze the cultural or social function of a literary text.
• Explain the relationship between the author’s style and literary effect.
• Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work.
• Compare and contrast authors’ use of literary elements within a variety of genres.
• Analyze how the author’s specific word choices and syntax impact the author’s purpose.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions using references from the text(s) for support.
• Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Apply knowledge of text features and organizational patterns to understand, analyze, and gain meaning from texts.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information using evidence from text as support.
• Recognize an author’s intended purpose for writing and identify the main idea.
• Identify characteristics of expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
• Identify a position/argument to be confirmed, disproved, or modified.
• Evaluate clarity and accuracy of information.
• Analyze, organize, and synthesize information in order to solve problems, answer questions, complete a task, or create a product.
• Differentiate between fact and opinion and evaluate their impact.
• Analyze ideas within and between selections providing textual evidence.
• Use the reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Engage in writing as a recursive process.
• Communicate clearly the purpose of the writing using a thesis statement.
• Compose a thesis for persuasive writing that advocates a position.
• Clearly state and defend a position using reasons and evidence from credible sources as support.
• Identify counterclaims and provide counter - arguments.
• Use textual evidence to compare and contrast multiple texts.
• Use a variety of sentence structures to infuse sentence variety in writing.
• Avoid plagiarism by using own words and follow ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet

Students will: 

• Make strategic use of multimodal tools.
• Credit information sources.
• Use vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• Use a variety of strategies to listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Respond thoughtfully and tactfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
• Evaluate impact, purpose, point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric of presentation(s).
• Use self-reflection to evaluate one’s own role in preparation and participation in small-group activities.
• Analyze the purpose of information and persuasive techniques used in diverse media formats.
• Evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind media presentation(s).
• Evaluate sources including advertisements, editorials, political cartoons, and feature stories for relationships between intent and factual content.
• Monitor, analyze, and use multiple streams of simultaneous information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet when evaluating or producing creative or informational media messages.
• Use context, structure, and connotations to determine meanings of words and phrases.
• Identify the meaning of common idioms.
• Extend general and cross-curricular vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Identify the characteristics that distinguish literary forms.
• Explain the relationships between and among elements of literature: characters, plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
• Interpret how themes are connected across texts.
• Compare and contrast the use of rhyme, rhythm, sound, imagery, and other literary devices to convey a message and elicit the reader’s emotion.
• Analyze the cultural or social function of a literary text.
• Explain the relationship between the author’s style and literary effect.
• Explain the influence of historical context on the form, style, and point of view of a written work.
• Compare and contrast authors’ use of literary elements within a variety of genres.
• Analyze how the author’s specific word choices and syntax impact the author’s purpose.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions using references from the text(s) for support.
• Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Apply knowledge of text features and organizational patterns to understand, analyze, and gain meaning from texts.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information using evidence from text as support.
• Recognize an author’s intended purpose for writing and identify the main idea.
• Identify characteristics of expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
• Identify a position/argument to be confirmed, disproved, or modified.
• Evaluate clarity and accuracy of information.
• Analyze, organize, and synthesize information in order to solve problems, answer questions, complete a task, or create a product.
• Differentiate between fact and opinion and evaluate their impact.
• Analyze ideas within and between selections providing textual evidence.
• Use the reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Engage in writing as a recursive process.
• Communicate clearly the purpose of the writing using a thesis statement.
• Compose a thesis for persuasive writing that advocates a position.
• Clearly state and defend a position using reasons and evidence from credible sources as support.
• Identify counterclaims and provide counter - arguments.
• Use textual evidence to compare and contrast multiple texts.
• Use a variety of sentence structures to infuse sentence variety in writing.
• Avoid plagiarism by using own words and follow ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet.

This unit is currently being revised. Unit standards will be updated once completed.

Students will: 

• Make strategic use of multimodal tools.
• Use vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose.
• Share responsibility for collaborative work.
• Use a variety of strategies to listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Respond thoughtfully and tactfully to diverse perspectives, summarizing points of agreement and disagreement.
• Evaluate impact, purpose, point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric of presentation(s).
• Use self-reflection to evaluate one’s own role in preparation and participation in small-group activities.
• Analyze and interpret special effects used in media messages.
• Determine the purpose of the media message and its effect on the audience.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet when evaluating or producing creative or informational media messages.
• Extend general and cross-curricular vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Explain the relationships between and among elements of literature: characters, plot, setting, tone, point of view, and theme.
• Analyze the cultural or social function of a literary text.
• Explain the relationship between the author’s style and literary effect.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions using references from the text(s) for support.
• Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Apply knowledge of text features and organizational patterns to understand, analyze, and gain meaning from texts.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information using evidence from text as support.
• Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize ideas, while maintaining meaning and a logical sequence of events, within and between texts.
• Use the reading strategies to monitor comprehension throughout the reading process.
• Engage in writing as a recursive process.
• Avoid plagiarism by using own words and follow ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using information.
• Demonstrate ethical use of the Internet.