Grade 9 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • character
    • characterization
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. character
    • character vs. self
  3. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. society
    • character vs. nature/environment
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot
    • parallel
    • episodic
  3. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • spectacle, dialogue, and music
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • diction
    • tone and mood
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • rhyme and meter
    • figures of speech and sound devices
    • style
    • patterns and motifs
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • organic unity
    • sign and referent
    • binary opposition
  2. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context
    • co-text
    • collocation
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within psychological context
  3. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within biographical context
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within historical context
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
  4. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • spectacle, dialogue, and music
    • style
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • organic unity
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  2. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: script for a one-act play.
  3. Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: script for a one-act play.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: non-journalistic texts: argumentative text
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
  2. Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Distinguish facts from claims/opinions
    • self-evidence
    • anecdotal evidence
    • argument from authority
    • empirical evidence
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness
    • name calling vs. card stacking
    • ad nauseum propaganda vs. appeal to justice
  2. Analyze persuasive techniques to support an argument: ethos, pathos, logos
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
  4. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  4. Edit the text for textual consistency.
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: argumentative text.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  4. Synthesize significant information.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender's meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of complaint
  2. Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies
  3. Examine the sender's voice for clarity of purpose and meaning: diction, style, tone and register, point of view, sentence structure
  4. Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Identify one's purpose and meaning in writing letters.
  2. Compose a letter of complaint.
  3. Revise for coherence and cohesion.
  4. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
  5. Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: academic texts: literature review
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
  2. Extract significant information.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
  4. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Synthesize significant information.
  3. Revise the text for coherence.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Revise the text for coherence.
  2. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  4. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  2. Synthesize significant information.
  3. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: literature review.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: literature review.
  2. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  3. Synthesize significant information.