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English 1P - Course Outline

Grade Nine Applied English

Course Description:

This course emphasizes key reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school and their daily lives. Students will study plays, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles, and will describe and create media works. An important focus will be the correct use of spoken and written language.
*From The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10 English

Texts Used:

Sightlines 9 & Resourcelines 9/10, Prentice Hall
That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
Critical Reading Series, Jamestown Publishers

Term One: September to January

Unit 1: Reading Skills

Critical Reading Series & excerpts
September

Unit 2: Novel Study 1

That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
October-November

Unit 3: Narrative Forms

Sightlines 9 and Voices
December-January

Term Two: February to June

Unit 4: Informational Forms

A variety of informational texts, including newspaper and magazine articles, memoirs, biographies, and advertisements
January-February

Unit 5: Drama Study

Romeo and Juliet by WilliamShakespeare
March-April

Unit 6: Novel Study 2

Stones by William Bell
May

Unit 7: Poetic Forms

Sightlines 9, Voices and other resources
June

Literacy Test Preparation: Ongoing
Critical Reading Skills: Ongoing
Writing/Language Usage: Ongoing

Evaluation:

Students will be assessed and evaluated in four main strands: