Grade 9 English, unit by unit

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English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story is a full year of ninth-grade English, nine units and 66+ hours: short stories, a novel, a Shakespeare play, nonfiction and persuasive writing, a research paper and a final project. It follows the Common Core State Standards.

The nine units

Who Is Telling This Story? Point of View and Narrative Reliability. Sustained Narrative: Reading a Novel Whole. Shakespeare: Reading Across Historical Distance. Reading Arguments: Claims, Evidence, and Rhetorical Appeals. Comparing Arguments: Credibility and Bias Across Paired Texts. Writing Narrative: Craft Choices in Original Fiction. Writing Argument: Building a Defensible Claim. Research: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Sources. Synthesis: A Second Novel and the Multi-Genre Portfolio.

Who is telling me this

A child learns to read closely and ask who is telling this and should I believe them.

Argue with evidence

To argue with real evidence instead of volume, and to write narrative and persuasive pieces of their own.

The goal by June

A child can pick apart a messy argument, defend a claim with sources that hold up, and talk about a book as if they have thought about it.

What this is not

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