Grade 9 High School English Language Arts/Reading 4th Nine Weeks at a Glance (3/31-6/4) Grade Level Units of Study Clear Learner Objectives

The student will be able to … Curriculum Framing Questions

Essential Questions Vocabulary

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Unit Title

Decisions: Actions and Consequences That Lead to a Personal Choice

Theme

Decisions, Actions and Consequences

• Understand and use new vocabulary when reading and writing

• Analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions using textual evidence

• Extract and use information by determining validity and reliability for my research topic

• Use comprehension skills to analyze how words, images, graphics, and sounds impact meaning

• Use reading comprehension skills to identify and understand purpose for writing

• Use the writing process to compose text to communicate ideas for a specific audience/purpose

• Use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing

• Use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions when composing written text

• Use comprehension skills to listen to others in formal and informal settings

• Use media literacy as method of persuasion

• What is the relationship between decisions and consequences?

• How do we know how to make good decisions?

• How can a person’s decisions and actions change his/her life?

• How do the decisions and actions of characters reveal their personalities?

• How do decisions, actions, and consequences vary depending on the different perspectives of the people involved?

Academic persuade message image audience inference media literacy plagiarism presentation validity synthesis

advertisement advertiser fact opinion rhetorical techniques persuade evaluate reliability

Key Concepts plot subplot conflict resolution setting climax characterization motivation theme author’s purpose mood tone

brainstorm plan draft revise edit bandwagon emotional appeal testimonial loaded terms repetition position claim supporting evidence

© San Antonio ISD – High School ELA/Reading At-A-Glance GP4 2014-15 It is the policy of San Antonio ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or handicap in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

Es norma del distrito de San Antonio no discriminar por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, sexo o impedimento, en sus programas, servicios o actividades vocacionales, tal como lo requieren el Título VI de la Ley de Deprechos Civiles de 1964, según enmienda; el Título IX de las Emmiendas en la Educación, de 1972, y la Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación de 1973, según enmienda.

Grade 9 High School English Language Arts/Reading 4th Nine Weeks at a Glance (3/31-6/4) Suggested Instructional Resources Assessment Plan

Formative (Throughout Unit): Readers and Writers Notebook Checks, Cold Calling, Exit Tickets Summative (End of Unit): Multi-Genre Research Paper

Novels Artemis Foul, Beloved, The Chocolate War, Freak the Mighty, Harry Potter Series, To Kill a Mockingbird

Poetry Road Not Taken (page 724), Macavity: The Mystery Cat (pages 726 – 727)

Short Stories The Washwoman (pages 26 - 32), New Directions (pages 36 – 38), Desiderata (pages 17 – 20), From the Giants House (pages 9 -15)

Drama From the Importance of Being Ernest (pages 988 – 995), From Big Fish (pages 1225 – 1232), Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (pages 806 – 930), From Midsummer Night’s Dream (pages 950 – 958)

Non-Fiction From A Lincoln Preface (pages 500 – 507), Arthur Ashe Remembered (pages 508 – 510), Carry Your Own Skis (pages 522 – 526), A&M Students Help Out in ‘Big’ Way (page 940), The Big Event (pages 941 – 942), Libraries Face Sad Chapter (pages 530 – 534), Before Hip Hop Was Hip Hop (pages 431 – 438)

Cross Curricular Connections Social Studies – Globalization and Technology, Science - Ecology

Other

AVID Weekly Writing Coach (pages 170 – 194, 222 – 225) Prentice Hall Literature (pages 519, 539, 1002 – 1012)

© San Antonio ISD – High School ELA/Reading At-A-Glance GP4 2014-15 It is the policy of San Antonio ISD not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or handicap in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

Es norma del distrito de San Antonio no discriminar por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, sexo o impedimento, en sus programas, servicios o actividades vocacionales, tal como lo requieren el Título VI de la Ley de Deprechos Civiles de 1964, según enmienda; el Título IX de las Emmiendas en la Educación, de 1972, y la Sección 504 de la Ley de Rehabilitación de 1973, según enmienda.