Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
None
Course Summary
English 9 focuses on analyzing and interpreting various texts, including poetry, fiction, drama, and speeches. Students will explore authorial techniques, connect themes, and apply their learning to their own writing and discussions, developing their skills as writers and thinkers.
Course Goals
By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:
Closely read a range of informational texts, literature, and poetry, nimbly applying
various reading strategies to support your understanding.
Use textual evidence to inform your analysis and support your ideas about a text.
Analyze how a text’s structure can create tension, mystery, and suspense.
Analyze how authors draw on and transform source material.
Determine central ideas and themes in a text and analyze their development.
Determine authors’ purposes and points of view and compare them across texts.
Examine how ideas unfold and connect across a text.
Deconstruct, delineate, and evaluate arguments in a text.
Analyze complex characters in a literary text, including how they develop and how they interact with other characters.
Analyze multiple accounts of a subject, conveyed through different mediums.
Draw on a range of strategies to determine the denotative, connotative, and technical meanings of words.
Interpret nuances in word meaning and understand their impact on tone and meaning.
Produce effective analytical, argumentative, narrative, and expository writing that is appropriate in tone and style and suited for task, purpose, and audience.
Objectively summarize informational and literary texts.