Chester Area School 9th English Curriculum Map

By Velda Schneider

Content Area ____ English______Grade Level ____9th____

MONTH

/ CONTENT/TOPIC / SKILLS / ASSESSMENTS/ACT. / STANDARDS
August and September

September
Cont.
September cont.

October

November
December
January
January
Cont.
February
February
Cont.
March
March-April
April
May

May / Short Stories:
1.  “The Most Dangerous Game”
2.  “The Birds”
3.  “The Red-headed League”
4.  “The Interlopers” by Saki
5.  “The Gift of the Magi”
6.  “Sonata for Harp and Bicyle”
Writing:
Writing Types:
1.  Expository
2.  Narrative
3.  Descriptive
4.  Persuasive
Writing Types cont…
Short stories cont…
7.  “Rules of the Game”
8.  “Blues Ain’t no Mockin’ Bird”
9.  “Checkouts”
10.  “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
11.  “The Scarlet Ibis”
12.  “The Cask of Amontillado”
13.  “The Necklace”
To Kill A Mockingbird
Writing
Grammar, mechanics, and usage:
-Nouns
-Pronouns
-Action Verbs
-Linking & Helping Verbs
-Adjectives and adverbs
Research Paper
(3 weeks)
Romeo and Juliet
(2 weeks)
Romeo and Juliet cont…
Grammar, mechanics, and usage:
Prepositions, Conjunctions, & Interjections
Poetry
(Reading)
Poetry that will be read:
Figurative Language:
1.  “The Eagle”
2.  “Hope”
3.  “Dream Deferred”
4.  “Dreams”
Irony and Tone:
1.  “Fifteen”
Symbol:
1.  “The Road Not Taken”
2.  “Caged Bird”
3.  “First Lesson”
Word Choice & Imagery:
1.  “Memory”
2.  “Siren Song”
3.  “Ithaca”
Narrative & Dramatic:
1.  “Casey at the Bat”
2.  “The Raven”
3.  “The Seven Ages of Man”
Sonnets & Haiku:
1.  “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket”
2.  “Sonnet 30”
Lyric & Musical Devices:
1.  “Maggie and milly and molly and may”
2.  “Fire and Ice”
3.  “There Will Come Soft Rains”
4.  “The Horses”
5.  “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
6.  “Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
7.  “The Bells”
8.  “I Years Had Been From Home”
Walk Two Moons
Reading: (Nonfiction):
Types:
1.  Persuasive
2.  Narrative
3.  Reflective
4.  Expository
5.  Practical/Technical
Stories:
1.  “New Directions”
2.  “from Rosa Parks: My Story”
3.  “Go Deep to the Sewer”
4.  “I Have A Dream”
5.  “Glory and Hope”
Grammar, mechanics, and usage:
Complete Subjects & Predicates
Hard to Find Subjects and complements compound predicates & compound subjects
Capitalization & Punctuation
Phrases & Clauses
Effective Sentences
1. Combining sentences
2. Varying sentences
3. Principal Parts of Verbs
4. 6 Tenses of Verbs
5. Troublesome Verbs
The Odyssey by Homer
Book Reports (2 every 9 weeks) 8 total novels, magazines, or journals read on their own time outside of class. / Identifying all of the elements of a fiction short story:
1)  setting
2)  characters
3)  point of view
4)  mood
5)  plot
6)  conflicts
7)  theme
8)  resolution
Complete a writer’s handout on good qualities of writing. Give examples
Power point on the writing process (The stages of writing):
1.  Prewriting
2.  Drafting
3.  Revising
4.  Editing and Proofreading
5.  Publishing and Presenting
Power point on paragraphs and compositions.
Students will write a narrative autobiography on their life
-Getting at meaning
-Expressing ideas in writing
-Expanding ideas into papers.
Students will write a compare/contrast expository paper using the prompt I give them.
I will give them a list of cause and effect expository writing prompts to choose from.
Students will be give a picture to write a descriptive piece.
Students will compile a list of persuasive topics to choose from and write a persuasive paper.
Continue to:
-Studying the elements of a short story
-Figuring out a plot and conflict
-define the word “character”
-Identifying the character and its purpose.
-inferences about the narrator of the story
-define the word “setting”
-Identify the setting of the story
Understand the breakdown of a novel and all novel elements.
-identifying nouns
-recognizing compound nouns
-use common & proper nouns
-Using the writing process
-Using proper sentences, paragraph and compositions
-working on structure and style
-recognizing antecedents of pronouns
-locating personal pronouns
-using demonstrative pronouns
-using relative pronouns
-using interrogative pronouns
-using indefinite pronouns
-reviewing over pronouns
-locating action verbs
-using transitive verbs
-using intransitive verbs
-recognizing forms of “be”
-using other linking verbs
-recognizing helping verbs
-review over all verbs
-identifying and understanding adjectives
-identifying indefinite and definite articles
-nouns used as adjectives
-compound adjectives
-pronouns used as adjectives:
1. possessive adjectives
2. demonstrative adjectives
3. interrogative adjectives
4. indefinite adjectives
-identifying and understanding adverbs
-adverbs modifying adjectives
-adverbs modifying other adverbs
-Adverb or Adjective?
Give a power point on my expectations and an overview of what a research paper is.
Students will pick from a list of 50 the topic that they wish to write about. (3 weeks will be devoted to this paper.)
-fill out source and note cards
-title page, thesis, outline, & bibliography page
-rough drafts, peer editing and revisions.
-type the final copy & collect papers (grade w/ rubric)
Understand the breakdown of a play and all the elements of the Global Theatre.
-read through the play and assign character parts.
-act out the play using speaking voices and dramatic gestures.
-watch the movie Romeo and Juliet and write a reflection paper.
-understanding elements of drama:
1) Staging
2) Historical Context
3) Plot and Subplot
4) Dialogue
-identifying and understanding how to use prepositions, conjunctions and interjections
-understanding the elements of poetry:
1) purpose and form
2) narratives and ballads
3) lyric poetry
4) symbols
5) imagery
6) figurative language
-understanding narrative poems and ballads
-recognize the author’s purpose of storytelling a narrative
-studying elements of narrative poetry
-expressing thoughts and feelings
-understanding sound-like qualities.
-reviewing the parts of speech and how to use them.
-understanding sound-like qualities.
-explaining how different styles have different purposes
-read the poems aloud and discuss them
-describing images viewed in poetry
-discussing characteristics of an “ode”
-read the poem figure out their styles and discuss them.
Understand the breakdown of a novel and all novel elements.
-Studying the elements of a nonfiction story.
-understanding biographical narratives
-understanding bracketed passages.
-read and study other nonfiction pieces.
-complete study guides over these stories.
-discuss the stories.
-review over all of the nonfiction stories
-finding and identifying complete subjects and predicates
-finding and using hard to find subjects & compound subjects and predicates.
End marks, commas, semi-colons, colons, quotation marks, direct quotes, dashes, parentheses, hyphens, apostrophes, possessive nouns
Understanding phrases and clauses.
Understanding effective sentences
-Creating effective sentences, combining sentences, varying sentences.
-graphing the principal parts of verbs
-understanding present, past and future verb tenses.
-recognizing troublesome verbs
-Studying what an “Epic Poem” is. Understanding Mythology characters and their names.
Students will do these. / Comprehensive check on these key elements
Quiz over the plot and conflict of the story.
Complete a plot diagram to check comprehension
Class discussion and full participation
Wkst. over the stories and comprehensive quizzes.
Check understanding of handout with oral and written quiz.
I will check their daily language practice and their writing process on their
written autobiographies narratives.
Compare/Contrast paper
Cause and Effect paper
Descriptive paper
Persuasive paper
Persuasive paper cont.
Wksts. over stories
Quiz over the stories
Students will write setting comments on the smartboard
Class discussion and full participation
Wkst. over the stories and comprehensive quizzes.
Review and test over short stories.
Check comprehension by completing a wkst. Over the entire novel .
Quiz over part I and part II and a test over the entire novel.
Exercises from the book.
Test over nouns and pronouns
Exercises from the book.
Test over all verbs
Exercises from the book.
Test over adverbs
-Test over adjectives and adverbs
Note taking and discussion over a research paper.
-fill out form for topic
-use periodicals, ProQuest encyclopedias, nonfiction, and vertical files.
Students will use their grammar skills, usage skills, mechanics skills, and all of their writing traits/skills that they have learned so far in English. They will also be accountable for numeracy by polling their fellow students and charting or graphing their information into their paper.
Check comprehension by completing a wkst for all five acts.
-will go through and study the elements of drama and what they mean.
-quiz over the elements of drama
-students will participate for a grade.
-reflection paper on movie
Quiz all acts and a test over the entire play.
-comprehensive exercises to understand prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
-Comprehensive test over preps., conjs., and interjs
Quiz over the elements of poetry
-read aloud in class and analyze the poem
-read aloud in class and analyze the poem
-discuss the qualities of a lyric poem.
-read this poem as a class
-read aloud and discuss for comprehension
-discuss the different styles and purposes
-read aloud in class
-read aloud in class for comprehension
Discussion on haiku style
Test over all poems and poetry elements
-Check comprehension by completing a wkst. over the entire novel .
-Comprehensive quizzes over the chapters and test over the entire novel.
-handout discussing: essays, biographies, autobiographies, expositions, and informational texts.
Discussion over story
Discussion over stories to check comprehension.
Quiz over these nonfiction stories.
Test over nonfiction stories
Writing adjective phrases, adverb phrases, appositive phrases, verbal phrases, gerunds, adjective and adverb phrases
Review all of these elements and test over them.
Comprehensive quiz over this epic poem and the gods and goddesses. Test over this story.
Check for comprehension. / 9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and verb tense usage)
9.W.3.2 (proper punctuation)
9.W.2.2 (sentence fluency)
9.W.1.1 (focused paragraphs and writing style)
9.W.1.2 (comparison/contrast)
9.W.2.1 (monitor writing progress)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and verb tense usage)
9.W.3.2 (proper punctuation)
9.W.2.2 (sentence fluency)
9.W.1.1 (focused paragraphs and writing style)
9.W.2.1 (monitor writing progress)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and verb tense usage)
9.W.3.2 (proper punctuation)
9.W.2.2 (sentence fluency)
9.W.1.1 (focused paragraphs and writing style)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and tense usage)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and tense usage)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and tense usage)
9.W.3.1 (proper grammar and verb tense usage)