English Language Arts
McDougal Littell
Grade: 9 / Part: 2 / Unit: 5HS- English 1 / 2: A World Of Ideas / Ideas Made Visible: AUTHOR’S PURPOSE
*IN NONFICTION *IN MEDIA * IN FICTION
Essential Question: / Critical Reading Workshop: / Writing Workshop: / Speaking and Listening
Why do writers write? / Purpose, Perspective, Tone, Organization, Format / Problem-Solution Essay / Video Documentary
Assessment Practice: / Great Reads:
Author’s Purpose / Ideas for Independent Reading
Vocabulary Strategies: / Academic Vocabulary:
Word roots: gen, p. 532
Specialized fields: “ologies,” p. 545
Latin roots: fract, p. 555 / · Tone
· Author’s perspective
· Text features
· Diction
· Author’s purpose
· Patterns of organization
The Arizona Essential Course of Study
Literature:
· Critical Reading Workshop: Author’s Purpose
o The Open Window
o from The House on Mango Street
Nonfiction and Informational Material:
· Island Morning
· Georgia O’Keeffe
· Who Killed the Iceman?
· Skeletal Sculptures
· The Lost Boys
Writing:
· Problem-Solution Essay
Speaking, Listening, and Media:
· Video Documentary
· Media: Nine Coal Miners Brought Up Safely/All Nine Pulled Alive from Mine
Whole Group
Reading
60 Minutes / __:__-__:__ / Language Arts / Oral/Vocab
60 Minutes / __:__-__:__
LITERARY ANALYSIS
· Identify and analyze tone and diction
V-LS-1: HI-10: recognizing the language nuances of a speaker. (e.g., a subtle difference in tone, expression, meaning, etc.)Compare and contrast universal themes
V-R-4: HI-31: comparing and contrasting two items within an expository text.
· Recognize and analyze an author’s perspective
V- R-4: HI-12: determining the author's point of view and/or stated or implied purpose (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain). / Grammar
60 Minutes / __:__-__:__ / Writing
60 Minutes / __:__-__:__ / SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND VIEWING
· Interpret and evaluate how events and information are presented in nonprint resources
V-LS-1: HI-6: responding to social conversations by rephrasing/ repeating information, asking questions, offering advice, sharing one’s experiences, and expressing one’s thoughts. VOCABULARY
· Create a news segment
V-LS-2: HI-7: report detailed information on a topic supported by concrete details, commentary, and examples in complete sentences
· Produce a video documentary
V-LS-2: HI-4: participating in formal and informal socio-functional communication tasks using complete sentences.
V-LS-2: HI-5: asking and responding to academic questions (i.e., agreeing/ disagreeing with others, expressing probabilities, hypothetical questions, etc.) in complete sentences.
V-LS-2: HI-6: sharing a personal experience/story with descriptive language supported by details and examples in complete sentences.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
· Tone
· Author’s perspective
· Text features
· Diction
· Author’s purpose
· Patterns of organization
GRAMMAR
· Use nouns, adverbs, and conjunctions correctly
V-W-2: HI-15: using noun, adverbial and/or prepositional phrases in sentences. / WRITING
· Write a problem-solution essay
V-W-1: HI-3: writing an expository essay that includes an introduction with a thesis, body paragraphs with supporting details, and a conclusion.
· Develop ideas logically and support them with evidence
V-W-4: HI-6: using details to support the main idea, topic sentence, and/or thesis statement.
READING
· Use reading strategies, including predicting
V-R-4: HI-3: formulating and confirming predictions about text for accuracy.
· Make inference
V-R-4: HI-14: drawing conclusions from information implied or inferred in a literary selection.
· Analyze patterns of organization, including chronological order and comparison and contrast
V-R-4: HI-9: locating sequential/ chronological order signal words in text. (e.g., first, next, finally, today, now, meanwhile, not long ago)
· Use text features to locate and comprehend information
V-R-4: HI-28: locating information from an organizational feature of a book for a specific purpose
· Identify and analyze author’s purpose
V- R-4: HI-12: determining the author's point of view and/or stated or implied purpose (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain).
· Interpret graphic aids
V-R-4: HI-27: explaining the purpose of organizational features on a page of nonfiction text.
· Identify an implied main idea
V-R-4: HI-8: summarizing the main idea (explicit or implicit) and supporting details in text.
ELL Whole Group/Additional Whole Group Resources
Students Resource Bank:
Reading Handbook
Writing Handbook
Grammar Handbook
Vocabulary and Selling Handbook
Speaking and Listening Handbook
Media Handbook
Test-Taking Handbook
Glossary of Literacy Terms
Glossary of Reading and Informational Terms
Glossary of Vocabulary in English and Spanish
Pronunciation Key
ELL Small Group/Differentiated Instruction
Academic Vocabulary
· pp. 507
Additional Academic Vocabulary
· pp. 507
Assessment Practice
· Work Backward pp. 584
Assessment Support:
· Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs pp. 589
Comprehension
· Generalization pp. 513
· Contrast pp. 539
· Transitions pp. 541, 553
· Comparisons pp. 574, 578
Culture
· Clarify pp. 520, 528, 530, 584
Key Academic Vocabulary
· pp. 517, 527, 537, 549, 572
Language
· Conversational English Patterns pp. 518
· Punctuation and Print Clues pp. 518
· Punctuation pp. 521
· Verb Tenses pp. 538
· Modifiers pp. 552, 564
· Skill Words pp. 577 / Options for Reading
· pp. 563, 571
Pre-Reading
· pp. 563, 571
Test Taking Strategies
· Understanding Instructions pp. 587
Vocabulary
· Idioms pp. 512
· Phrasal Verbs pp. 519
· Roots pp. 530
· Cognates pp. 545, 555
· Suffixes pp. 550
· Word Associations pp. 551
· Assessment Vocabulary pp. 588
Writing
· Analyzing Prompts pp. 579
· Adding Support Details pp. 581
Assessment & Additional Resources
Assessment Practice
Unit 5 pg. 584
· Author’s Purpose
o Author’s Perspective
o Author’s Purpose
o Patterns of Organization
o Text Features
o Make Inferences
o Main Ideas
o Media: Visual Information
o Word Roots
o Technical/Specialized Vocabulary
o Concrete and Abstract Nouns
o Adverbs
o Coordinating Conjunctions
Unit Tests
Write a Problem-Solution Essay
Produce a Video Documentary
Standards
1.6.PO5,
2.1PO1.b / 1.6.PO5, 2.1.PO2, 2.5.PO3 / 1.4.PO1, 2.1.PO2,
2.4.PO3,
3.1.PO8 / 1.4.PO2, 3.1.PO3, 3.1.PO4 / 1.4.PO2,
3.1.PO3, 3.1.PO4 / VP-P1 / 1.3.PO2,
1.6.PO1, 2.1PO1.b / 2.1.PO1.b, 2.1.PO1.c / 1.1PO1,
3.2.PO1,
VP-P2
Critical Reading Workshop: Author’s Purpose pp. 508-513 / Island Morning
pp. 514-523
Descriptive Essay
Level: Average / Georgia O’ Keeffe pp. 524-533
Biographical Essay
Level: Challenging / Who Killed the Iceman?/Skeletal Sculptures
pp. 534-545
Magazine Article/Process Description
Level: Easy / The Lost Boys
pp. 546-555
Magazine Article
Level: Average / Media Study: News Reports
pp. 556-559
TV Newscast/Web News Report / The Open Window
pp. 560-567
Short Story
Level: Challenging / from The House on Mango Street
pp. 568-575
Fiction
Level: Average / Writing Workshop: Problem-Solution Essay
pp. 576-583