English Language Arts - Grade 9
BIG IDEAS Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy. Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world. People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives. Texts are socially culturally, and historically constructed. Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens. Curricular Competencies Content
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to: Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) • Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability • Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking • Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding • Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages • Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts • Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts • Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity • Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world • Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways • Explain how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning • Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning • Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view • Develop an awareness of the diversity within and across First Peoples societies represented in texts • Recognize the influence of place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts• Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) • Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking • Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences • Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message • Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation • Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes • Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose, and message • Transform ideas and information to create original texts • Express an opinion and support it with credible evidence |
Students are expected to know the following: Story/text • forms, functions, and genres of text • text features • literary elements • literary devices • elements of visual/graphic texts Strategies and processes • reading strategies • oral language strategies • metacognitive strategies • writing processes Language features, structures, and conventions • features of oral language • multi-paragraphing • language change • elements of style • usage • syntax and sentence fluency • conventions • presentation techniques • rhetorical devices • connotation and denotation For more information about BC's new curriculum, please use the button below to go to the BC Ministry of Education website.
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Year Overview
Note: This is a general outline and is subject to change at any point. Pacing often depends on the needs of each class; do not be concerned if your child is not working on the same material as students in another block.
Short Stories - Students will read and analyze a variety of short stories, will learn to identify the components of a short story and complete a detailed plot graph. The final assignment for this unit will be to plan, write and publish a short story of their own. This unit also includes a mini unit about Edgar Allen Poe.
Poetry - Read, analyze and write poetry
Novel Study - Choose one novel from the seven discussed in class
Media Unit - Advertising, media messages, techniques & impact
Grammar/Spelling/Conventions - Each unit throughout the year will include information, activities, worksheets and games to teach these concepts. All assignments will be expected to have been proofread and edited for grammar, spelling and conventions.
Essay Writing - Essay writing techniques and types of writing (informatory, expository, persuasive...)
Teacher for 20 - This is an intense oral language unit that requires students to analyze the techniques of a good speaker and listener, then create a lesson and presentation that will best demonstrate their knowledge. Students are responsible for creating a lesson plan and teaching a topic of their choosing to their peers. As well as being assessed by the teacher, students are all also required to complete self and peer evaluations. This is a unit that students seem to find extremely enjoyable, but be warned, it is A LOT of work!
Independent Novel Study - Student will complete the required reading and assignments on a novel of their choosing.
Shakespeare - Read and analyze A Midsummer Night's Dream
Note: This is a general outline and is subject to change at any point. Pacing often depends on the needs of each class; do not be concerned if your child is not working on the same material as students in another block.
Short Stories - Students will read and analyze a variety of short stories, will learn to identify the components of a short story and complete a detailed plot graph. The final assignment for this unit will be to plan, write and publish a short story of their own. This unit also includes a mini unit about Edgar Allen Poe.
Poetry - Read, analyze and write poetry
Novel Study - Choose one novel from the seven discussed in class
Media Unit - Advertising, media messages, techniques & impact
Grammar/Spelling/Conventions - Each unit throughout the year will include information, activities, worksheets and games to teach these concepts. All assignments will be expected to have been proofread and edited for grammar, spelling and conventions.
Essay Writing - Essay writing techniques and types of writing (informatory, expository, persuasive...)
Teacher for 20 - This is an intense oral language unit that requires students to analyze the techniques of a good speaker and listener, then create a lesson and presentation that will best demonstrate their knowledge. Students are responsible for creating a lesson plan and teaching a topic of their choosing to their peers. As well as being assessed by the teacher, students are all also required to complete self and peer evaluations. This is a unit that students seem to find extremely enjoyable, but be warned, it is A LOT of work!
Independent Novel Study - Student will complete the required reading and assignments on a novel of their choosing.
Shakespeare - Read and analyze A Midsummer Night's Dream
Use the button above to find important handouts, rubrics, & assignments, or to check out more of our Teacher for 20 presentation pictures from previous years.
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