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English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story (Part 2)

Grade 9, Units 6-9 · 341 pages · 39 lessons · PDF, print at home

A full-year grade 9 ELA course covering narrative and argumentative reading and writing, a full-length novel, a Shakespeare play, informational and rhetorical texts, and a research unit, delivered one-to-one via an adaptive app with parent facilitation. Students build a cumulative vocabulary and grammar base while progressing from short literary texts to a novel, a play, and complex nonfiction, closing with an independent research and argument project. Every unit opens with retrieval of prior units and closes with a delayed assessment component. Rigor is on grade level for CCSS grades 9-10 ELA. This volume holds units 6 to 9: 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.

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English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story

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Unit 6: Writing Narrative: Craft Choices in Original Fiction12 lessons
  1. 45.The informational access and restrictions built into first-person, third-limited, and third-omniscient point of view
  2. 46.Surface-level pronoun and knowledge-access cues that identify first-person, third-limited, and third-omniscient point of view
  3. 47.The tradeoff structure of a specific POV choice for a specific story idea
  4. 48.The showing-versus-telling distinction in sentence-level narrative craft
  5. 49.Conversion of a telling sentence into a showing sentence without losing the original narrative information
  6. 50.The scene-versus-summary pacing decision and its narrative effect
  7. 51.A pacing map for an original, not-yet-written short story
  8. 52.A complete original short story draft applying POV and pacing decisions
  9. 53.Reader-confusion points in the student's own draft identified via two independent feedback sources
  10. 54.Targeted revision decisions justified by reader effect rather than by writer preference
  11. 55.Grammar and usage conventions specific to narrative writing (tense consistency, pronoun-antecedent agreement, comma splices)
  12. 56.Transfer of the POV/pacing tradeoff framework to an unfamiliar, unanalyzed story opening
Unit 7: Writing Argument: Building a Defensible Claim9 lessons
  1. 57.Fair representation of an opposing position (counterclaim) prior to rebuttal
  2. 58.Argument-writing vocabulary: claim, counterclaim, warrant, evidence, rebuttal
  3. 59.The claim-evidence-explanation (CEE) paragraph structure for integrating evidence
  4. 60.The distinction between a fairly represented counterclaim and a straw-man counterclaim
  5. 61.Logical gaps between evidence and claim in argumentative writing (missing warrants)
  6. 62.Fairness and logical sufficiency of a counterclaim-rebuttal section in an unfamiliar essay
  7. 63.Overall structural plan of an argumentative essay including counterclaim placement
  8. 64.Sentence-level revision for clarity: transitions and pronoun reference
  9. 65.Original claim and fair counterclaim construction in an unrehearsed domain
Unit 8: Research: Finding, Evaluating, and Using Sources9 lessons
  1. 66.The criteria that make a research question researchable at this scope (arguable/explorable, bounded, not a single-fact lookup)
  2. 67.Lateral reading as a credibility-checking strategy, contrasted with reading a site 'vertically' (judging it by its own claims/design)
  3. 68.Credibility judgment of a specific, previously unseen digital source
  4. 69.The boundary between acceptable paraphrase, patchwriting, and appropriate quotation
  5. 70.MLA in-text citation and reference-list entry format across three source types
  6. 71.Synthesis of multiple, partially conflicting sources into a single defensible claim
  7. 72.The definition and scenario-based recognition of plagiarism
  8. 73.Fitness of a source for a specific research question, as distinct from generic credibility
  9. 74.Lateral reading as a transferable verification strategy across media, not a website-specific procedure
Unit 9: Synthesis: A Second Novel and the Multi-Genre Portfolio9 lessons
  1. 75.The four year-long analytical lenses (narrator reliability, theme/motif, historical context, rhetorical evaluation) and their diagnostic cues in a passage
  2. 76.Year-long vocabulary set from Units 1-5 and 8
  3. 77.The relationship between narrator reliability and warranted theme claims in the synthesis novel
  4. 78.An arguable, text-specific literary analysis claim integrating at least two analytical lenses
  5. 79.Credibility and relevance criteria for external sources applied to the synthesis novel's argumentative topic
  6. 80.Reader-confusion-driven revision of the literary analysis essay draft
  7. 81.Justification of lens-combination choice against a proposed alternative interpretation
  8. 82.A general heuristic mapping text features to productive analytical lenses, transferable beyond the two novels studied this year
  9. 83.Sorting of collected textual evidence by analytical lens (narrator, theme, context, rhetoric)

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