Rushing, Nancy / Language Arts I / High School / Ninth Grade English
First Semester
*Each week: Students study 10 vocabulary words coordinated with individual abilities.
In teams, students work on editing sentences and paragraphs.
Mini grammar lessons target weaknesses found in writing assignments
*1st quarter: Students are required to read a book from a required reading list.
*2nd quarter: Students are required to read a book of their choice (with teacher’s approval). |
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Content
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August |
Conventions: Usage Packet
Literature: Plot triangles and elements: exposition (characters, setting), conflict, climax, resolution, conclusion, rising action, falling action
Writing: Journals |
September |
Conventions: conjunctions (coordinate, correlative, subordinate); phrase; clause (independent and subordinate)
Literature: Short stories (types of conflict, foreshadowing, point of view)
Writing: Types of writing, stages of writing (prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, and publishing), journals, sentence combining, |
October |
Conventions: fragments, run-ons, comma splices
Literature: Finish short story unit; history of drama, Begin The Miracle Worker; (flashbacks)
Writing: journals, parallel structure, sentence combining, essays on handicaps |
November |
Conventions: Continue work on sentence structure
Literature: Continue The Miracle Worker
Writing: journals, sentence combining, responses to themes found in The Miracle Worker |
December |
Conventions: usage review
Literature: mythology; review hierarchy of major Greek gods and goddesses.
Writing: journals, sentence combining, research and write a report on god, goddess, or hero |
Second Semester
*Each week: Students study 10 vocabulary words coordinated with individual abilities.
In teams, students work on editing sentences and paragraphs.
Mini grammar lessons target weaknesses found in writing assignments
*1st quarter: Students are required to read a book from a required reading list.
*2nd quarter: Students are required to read a book of their choice (with teacher’s approval). |
| January |
Conventions: subordinate conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs
Literature: Odyssey (epic characteristics, allusions)
Writing: journals, sentence combining, summarize, paraphrase |
| February |
Conventions: apostrophes and other punctuation
Literature: Finish Odyssey
Writing: journals, descriptive writing, methods of organization |
| March |
Conventions: pronouns
Literature: autobiographical (Lincoln, Maya Angelou, Gary Soto)
Writing: journals, sentence combining, autobiographical narratives |
| April |
Conventions: subject/verb agreement
Literature: Animal Farm, satire, stages of revolution, symbolism, allegory
Writing: journals, sentence combining |
| May |
Conventions: usage review
Literature: Poetry, figures of speech: onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, personification
Writing: journals, poetry anthology (pattern poems and free style poems, use figures of speech) |
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