English 9

 

Skills Covered

Sentencing
Paragraphing
Grammar
Usage
Spelling
Vocabulary
Organizing Information
Note-taking
Essay Writing
Reading Comprehension
Reading Analysis
Writing with Style

Unit One:  Short Stories and Elements of Literature

Gift of the Magi
Open Window
Lady or the Tiger?
The Most Dangerous Game
The Bass, the River and Sheila Mant
The Cask of Amontillado
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Leap
American History
The Scarlet Ibis
Terror at 20,000 Feet
Eye of the Beholder
The Odyssey of Flight
Time Enough at Last
The Howling Man
Where is Everybody?

Unit Two:  Young Adult Fiction (part 1)

The Outsiders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit Three:  American Classic Novel

Of Mice and Men

Unit Four:  Shakespeare / Drama

Romeo and Juliet

Unit Five:  Non-Fiction

Black Boy
Night
Pink House
Amityville
Field Trip
Never Cry Wolf
Houdini Biography
Alcatraz
Loch Ness
Bigfoot
Brian Wilson Biography
Ancient Pyramids
Bermuda Triangle

Unit Six:  Young Adult Fiction (part 2)

Tex

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit Seven:  Poetry

Metaphors
Casey at the Bat
Out, Out
Acquainted with the Night
Southbound on the Freeway
Auto Wreck
The Winner
The Face Upon the Floor
The Raven
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
She's Leaving Home
Eleanor Rigby
Richard Cory
The Sounds of Silence
The Service
After the Record is Broken
Ex-Basketball Player
The Skater of Ghost Lake
Annabel Lee
Is My team Ploughing
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain

Unit Eight:  Mythology

Mythology Basics
The Odyssey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unit Nine:  Modern Drama

Visit to a Small Planet
The Miracle Worker
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
The Masks
The Encounter

Unit Ten:  Young Adult Fiction (part 3)

A Patch of Blue
The Pigman
I am the Cheese