ENGLISH 9 ACADEM IC M RS. BARRETT Academic English 2018-19 Unique to my classroom: - Bonus Bucks - The LOG SHORT LITERATURE Short Stories,Fables,Poetry,Non-Fictional Tales, Excerpt s This unit is designed to incorporate a wide array of literature which will include both fiction and non-fiction to improve reading comprehension, inferencing, and interpreting. We will study literary elements, theme, characterization, figurative language, and the historical context of each work. I nto Thin Air & Into The Wild - both by Jon Krakauer ?The Necklace?- Guy de Maupassant ?The M onkey?s Paw?- W.W. Jacobs ?The Black Cat?- Edgar Allan Poe ?The Most Dangerous Game?- Richard Connell ?The Interlopers?- Saki ?The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?- James Thurber ?Lady or The Tiger?- Frank R. Stockton ?Lesson of The Moth?- Leo Tolstoy ?American History?- Judith Ortiz Cofer ?The Initiation?- Sylvia Plath ?Two Brothers?- Leo Tolstoy ?The Last Night of the World?- Ray Bradbury ?The Scarlet Ibis?- James Hurst, BOOKS AND LONGER W ORKS ROOM F-109 The Pearl - John Steinbeck The Odyssey by Homer and a few other Greek Myths Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare That Was Then, This Is Now - S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton) Vocabulary Vocabulary Workshop Book Level D & Contextual Vocabulary taken from Literature Writing Narrative, Persuasive & I nformative,Essays, Expository Writing, Writer?s Notebook, Research Paper Oral Communication Presentations, an Informative Speech, Small 1-2 minute Talks, Memorizations & Acting out our stories Gr ammar Formal study with some memorization Contextual Usage & Application/ Use in Writing
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EN GLISH 9 A CA D EM ICM RS. BARRETT
Academic English 2018-19
Unique to my classroom:
- Bonus Bucks- The LOG
SHORT LITERATURE
Short Stories,Fables,Poetry,Non-Fict ional
Tales, Excerpts
This unit is designed to incorporate a wide
array of literature which will include both
fict ion and non-fict ion to improve reading
comprehension, inferencing, and
interpret ing. We will study literary
elements, theme, characterizat ion,
figurat ive language, and the historical
context of each work.
Into Thin Air & Into The Wild - both by Jon Krakauer
?The Necklace? - Guy de Maupassant
?The Monkey?s Paw? - W.W. Jacobs
?The Black Cat? - Edgar Allan Poe
?The Most Dangerous Game? - Richard Connell
?The Interlopers? - Saki
?The Secret Life of Walter Mit ty? - James Thurber
?Lady or The Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton
?Lesson of The Moth? - Leo Tolstoy
?American History? - Judith Ort iz Cofer
?The Init iat ion? - Sylvia Plath
?Two Brothers? - Leo Tolstoy
?The Last Night of the World? - Ray Bradbury
?The Scarlet Ibis? - James Hurst,
BOOKS AND LONGER WORKS
ROOM F-109
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
The Odyssey by Homer and
a few other Greek Myths
Romeo and Juliet -
Shakespeare
That Was Then, This Is Now
- S.E. Hinton (Susan Eloise
Hinton)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Workshop Book Level D &
Contextual
Vocabulary
taken from
L iterature
Writing
Narrative,
Persuasive & Informative,Essays, Expository Writing, Writer?s Notebook, Research Paper
Oral Communication
Presentations, an Informative Speech, Small 1-2 minute Talks, Memorizations & Acting out our stories
Grammar
Formal study with some memorization
Contextual Usage & Application/ Use in Writing
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