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English 9

Course Description

We will cover the curriculum standards: exploring grammar, literature, informal and informative texts. My expectation is that you will participate in your learning process with curiosity and authenticity. I will lead the class in instruction and lecture, we will also participate in group work and discussion, partner work, independent seat work, and project-based learning exercises. In various units, there will be an opportunity for student-led discussion and individual assignments to demonstrate understanding. Students will have the opportunity for self-assessment as well as for teacher guidance and assessment throughout the course. 

The instructional materials reviewed for Grade 9 reflect the distribution of text types and genres required by standards at each grade level. Source materials across the units include fiction and nonfiction literature, a broad variety of informational texts, digital resources such as audio recordings, and some visual media. Throughout the units of study, students are exposed to a variety of texts that assist students in answering the unit’s Essential Question. This challenges the traditional use of text in specific grades and allows students to be exposed to a variety of subjects and themes. Genres include memoirs, blog posts, essays, short stories, novel excerpts, news articles, poems, and drama.

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Week of 11/30-12/4


Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives
  • Review MLA formatting (kahoot)
  • Identify an annotated bibliography versus a works cited page
  • Practice paraphrasing – what does it mean to paraphrase?
Due This Week
  • Papers that were turned in will be sent back with feedback
  • If you are missing assignments, you will arrange a time during the week to email  
New Assignments
  • work on research paper – continue from where you are
  • complete self-assessment - opens Wednesday, due Monday 12/7

Week of 11/16-11/20

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

 

Weekly Objectives

·       Develop and strengthen my writing by planning, revising, editing, and/or trying new approaches.

Due Monday

·       Research Sandwich worksheet

PAST DUE

·       Annotated Bibliography

·       Research worksheet assignment

New Assignments

·       First Edit of Paper due Friday (before break) – to Sunday not late

 

Week of 11/9-11/13

**** NO CLASS WEDNESDAY ****

 

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·        Outline worksheet for research paper

·        Perform research and connect it to your claims.

(At this point you should have 7 sources with journals and articles.)

Due Monday

·        Working Thesis worksheet

PAST DUE

·        Research Sheet

·        Annotated Bibliography

·         

New Assignments

 (Outline) Research Sandwich Worksheet Due Monday 11/16

Week of 10/26 - 10/30

 

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       Identify a credible source for research.

·       Properly cite research relevant to a topic.

·       Gather research to support a claim.

New Assignments

·       Annotated Bibliography due 10/28

·       Research Worksheet

Week of 10/19-10/23

English 9

Title: Week of 10/19-10/23

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       I can gather information from multiple sources (print and digital) and assess the credibility and accuracy of those sources. We will be starting a Writing Unit - I will review the timeline of the paper and the checkpoints in class.

New Assignments

- Annotated Bibliography due 10/26

- Free Write brainstorming activity 

Week of 10/14-10/16

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 10:45-11:30 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       Identify and self-evaluate yourself in coursework so far

New Assignments

·       Discussion Post

·       Form Survey (found in assignments) click turn in when finished  

Week of 9/18-10/2

EQ: What does it mean to be an American?

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday 11:15- 11:45

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       Identify how diction and tone are used in conveying rhetorical appeal.

·       Write an explanatory essay to convey concepts and information clearly and accurately from the stories “A Quilt for a Country” and “Immigrant Contribution” with analysis of content.

·       Be able to properly use MLA citations in an MLA formatted paper.

New Assignments

·       Finish revising your paper and resubmit

·       MLA assignment

 

Week of 9/21-9/25

EQ: What does it mean to be an American?

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday 11:15-11:45
(No Class this Wednesday) 

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives
  • Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of the text and interact with other characters.
  • Discuss "American History" and questions.
  • Identify Narrative Structure
  • Use various types of phrases and clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing or presentations.

 

New Assignments
  • 2 Discussion Posts
    (Please see the “Posts” section of the Unit 1 page in Teams and respond appropriately)
  • Identify conflict from "American History" (chart)
  • Cognates chart
  • Alternative Ending Assignment
 
 

Week of 9/14-9/18

EQ: What does it mean to be an American?

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Tuesday In-Person/Online Assignments

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       Identify how diction and tone are used in conveying rhetorical appeal.

·       Write an explanatory essay to convey concepts and information clearly and accurately from the stories “A Quilt for a Country” and “Immigrant Contribution” with analysis of content.

·        

New Assignments

·       Have completed “Draft your Essay” Assignment – due Tuesday

·       Finish Essay – Due 9/18

·       2 Discussion Posts
(Please see the “Posts” section of the Unit 1 page in Teams and respond appropriately)

 

Week of 9/7-9/11

EQ: What does it mean to be an American?

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday, 11:15 – 11:45 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·         Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of the text and interact with other characters.

·         Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.  

 

New Assignments

·          2 Discussion Posts
(Please see the “Posts” section of the Unit 1 page in Teams and respond appropriately)

·         Read American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer and analyze character

·         American History story Analysis Questions

 

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Labor Day

 

No Class

 

Complete Reading of American History  

Attend Class at 11:15

 

Complete 2nd Discussion Post

Analysis Question Assignment

 

 

Review weekly assignments – ensure completion/ edit.

 

Week of 8/31-9/4

EQ: What does it mean to be an American?

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday, 11:15 – 11:45 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·       Analyze in detail how an author's ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text.

·       Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.  

 

 

New Assignments

·        2 Discussion Posts
(Please see the “Posts” section of the Unit 1 page in Teams and respond appropriately)

·       Read The Immigrant Contribution and identify the purpose the author wrote the text

·       The Immigrant Contribution Analysis Questions

Week of 8/24-8/28

Welcome back for to school, distance-style!  This week, we will go over essential questions. What do they mean? How are they relevant to class? What is the answer? For this unit, I pose the question:

 

How can words inspire change?

 

We will spend some time sharing with each other, review unit material and structure of class.  

Here’s what you need to know:

Classes: Monday/Wednesday, 11:15 – 11:45 AM

Zoom ID and password: Check your outlook calendar and/or Teams Files

Weekly Objectives

·         Identify what weekly objectives look like and what various jargon phrases look like in practice.

Example: “By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently”

New Assignments

·         2 Discussion Posts (Please see the “Posts” section of the English 9 page and respond appropriately)

·         Read: “Quilt of Our Country”

·         Answer Questions for Quilt of Our Country

·         Read: “Music for my mother” and write a summary