Welcome to 9th Grade English!
English 9 is a two-trimester course focusing on the process of developing skills as a listener, reader, speaker, viewer, writer, and thinker. The extent to which you continue to build these skills has much to do with effective communication—an art essential to your personal and professional life, no matter what career path you take. The major units of study in English 9A are vocabulary, literary terms, the short story, grammar and usage, effective writing, The Odyssey, and Beowulf. English 9B focuses on grammar and usage, vocabulary, poetry, the research paper, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night, Romeo and Juliet, and Of Mice and Men.
In addition, you will write original pieces with extensive dialogue, several formal five-paragraph essays citing text to substantiate your opinion, several informal essays, and at least 150 to 300 words in a daily journal. The more you write and think, the better you will become at both!
Learning Methods:
You can expect a variety of lecture, group work, discussion, individual and differentiated instruction, guided class work, and student projects and performances.
Classroom Rules:
Everyone in the classroom deserves a positive and engaging learning environment conducive to being, thinking, listening, viewing, speaking, reading, and writing. In short, there are just a few general expectations:
If absent, please check Schoology or contact me as soon as possible by e-mail ([email protected]) to find out what you missed.
Materials:
Bring your Chromebooks, your IR novel, and a positive attitude every day.
Homework:
You can expect to have thirty to forty minutes or less of homework three to four days a week. Please be prepared for class every single day.
English 9 Expectations
PARENTS: Support of your child’s education is absolutely crucial to his or her success this year. Please use PowerSchool and Schoology to check up on your son or daughter’s progress as the year unfolds. You can get your access information from Liz Wilson in the office. Please feel free to call or email me at [email protected] anytime.
In addition, you will write original pieces with extensive dialogue, several formal five-paragraph essays citing text to substantiate your opinion, several informal essays, and at least 150 to 300 words in a daily journal. The more you write and think, the better you will become at both!
Learning Methods:
You can expect a variety of lecture, group work, discussion, individual and differentiated instruction, guided class work, and student projects and performances.
Classroom Rules:
Everyone in the classroom deserves a positive and engaging learning environment conducive to being, thinking, listening, viewing, speaking, reading, and writing. In short, there are just a few general expectations:
- The use of phones, unless given specific permission, is prohibited. Your phone should not be out of your pocket for any reason. Best case scenario: leave it in your locker. If your phone is heard or seen, it will be confiscated and returned at the end of the day.
- Respect others and their learning.
- Do your best work.
If absent, please check Schoology or contact me as soon as possible by e-mail ([email protected]) to find out what you missed.
Materials:
Bring your Chromebooks, your IR novel, and a positive attitude every day.
Homework:
You can expect to have thirty to forty minutes or less of homework three to four days a week. Please be prepared for class every single day.
English 9 Expectations
- THINK! To read and write well, you will need to engage your mind every single day.
- Improve reading fluency and comprehension more than one grade level.
- Be able to identify the key ideas and theme of a piece of literature.
- Improve at interpreting figurative language (similes, metaphors, symbols, etc . . .)
- Be able to identify, discuss, and write clearly about an author’s point of view and how any given piece of literature may relate to our lives today.
- Improve in understanding practical applications of grammar, spelling, usage, and mechanics.
- Compose critical essays with a clear thesis statement, well-developed paragraphs, effective transitions, and a variety of complete sentence structures.
- Be able to cite a passage in a literary analysis essay using a signal phrase to introduce context.
- Gain in knowledge, skill, and confidence in reading, writing, grammar, editing, proofreading, listening, speaking, viewing, and critical thinking.
- Improve ability to write clearly and concisely across a wide variety of contexts and genres in both timed and untimed settings.
- Know how to engage yourself in the process of writing.
- Be intellectually curious!
PARENTS: Support of your child’s education is absolutely crucial to his or her success this year. Please use PowerSchool and Schoology to check up on your son or daughter’s progress as the year unfolds. You can get your access information from Liz Wilson in the office. Please feel free to call or email me at [email protected] anytime.