School Year: 2016-2017
Class: Language Arts
Grade: 9 Credits: 5 Teacher: Anabelle Pena
ABO UT CO NEXUS EDUCATIO NAL CO M M UNITY
Vision:
Become a leading school culture that contributes positively to the Dominican nation
Mission:
Developing leaders of change through innovative educational processes that generate commitment to yourself and the
collective good.
Values:
Self-Knowledge- Balance-Commitment
CLASS DESCRIPTION
General Description:
Collections, the new ELA Common Core program , helps students develop abilities to analyze complex texts, determine evidence, reason
critically, and communicate thoughtfully—the must-have skills for college and career.
General Objectives:
Develop critical thinking
To write fluently for a variety of purposes and audiences, employing appropriate formats
To speak fluently and confidently employing appropriate forms
To acquire historical and cultural understanding
To build up the capacity of reflection and self- knowledge
To use technological resources
Collection
JANUARY - FEBRUARY
3“TheBonds
between Us”
Essential
Questions:
ELA
Standards
-What connect us to those we care about?
RL.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual
evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including
how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
RL3: Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text,
interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
RL.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative
meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and
manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
RL6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose and analyze rhetoric.
RL7: Analyze various accounts of subject told in different mediums
RL9: Analyze Seminal U.S Documents
MA.8.A: Relate a work of fiction, poetry, to the seminal ideas of its time.
RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and
is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
RI5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger
portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of
view or purpose.
W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and
accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
W2b: Develop topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts.
W2e: Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone.
W3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences.
W5: Develop and strengthen projects.
W6: Use technology to produce and publish writing projects.
W7: Conduct short research projects
W8: Gather information from multiples sources.
W9: Draw evidence from literary text.
L1a: Use parallel structure
L1b: Use various type of phrases
L2a-b: Use semicolons and colons
L3: Apply knowledge of language to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when
reading.
L4: Determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
L4b: Identify and use patterns of word changes.
L4c: Consult references materials
L4d: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word.
L5b: Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
L6: Acquire and use academic and domain-specific words.
Concepts
and Skills
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Adverbial clauses
Colons
Verb phrases
Adjective and adverb phrase
Character
Theme
Figurative language
Character Traits
Content
Objectives
Students will:
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Assessments
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Products
Cite textual evidence to analyze character and theme in a short story and to support inferences about themes.
Delineate and evaluate and author’s claims and determine the technical meanings of words and used in the text.
Analyze an author’s point of view and cultural background and also analyze the impact of word choice on tone.
Analyze how an author unfolds a series of ideas in an informational text.
Interpret figurative language
Analyze the purpose and development of ideas in a public service announcement
Types of Writing
Routine Writing: Students should extract information from texts and react to that information through daily note-taking
strategies such as Content
Write a narrative about interpersonal connections that employs narratives techniques
Develop a group multimedia presentation that explores the bond that people form.
Texts
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“When Mr. Pirzada came to Dine” by Jhumpa Lahiri
“And of Clay we are created” by Isabel Allende
“Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect” by Frans de Waal
Poems : “My ceremony” by Lara Mann
Collection
MARCH-APRIL
4“Sweet
Sorrow”
Essential
Questions:
ELA
Standards
- Which is the nature of love and the conflicts surrounding?
Rl 1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis
Rl 2: Determne a central idea
Rl 3: Analyze ideas
Rl 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases
Rl 5: Analyze how ideas are developed and refined
Rl 7: Analyze representations of different mediums
Rl 9: Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a nspecific work
W2: Write texts to examinecomplexideas clearly and accurate through effective organization and analysis
W 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
W9: Draw evidence form literay or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research
W 10: Write routinely over extenden and shorter time frames
SL 1: Participate in collaborative discussions
L1a: Use parallel structure
L1b: Use various types of phrases
L4a: Use ocntext as a clue to the meaning of a word phrase
L4c:Consult reference material
L4d:Verify the meaning of a word phrase
L5a: Interpret figures of speech
Concepts
and Skills
Participial pHrase
Parrallel Structure
Independent and Subordinate
clause
Essay
Drama
Shakesperean Drama
Myth
Short Sotry
Content
Objectives
Students will:
Assessments
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Products
Types of Writing
Analyze ideas presented in an essay and determine word meanings
Analyze how a modern artist drwas on and transforms source material for a new artistic expression
Analyze characters motivations
Analyze sourc emateiral
Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material and how an authors choice of point of view creates desired
effects
Write an analytical essay exploring an aspect of love
Speaking Activiy: Discussions
Debates
Journal Entries
Eulogy
Texts
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Essay “Love’s Vocabulary” by Diane Ackerman
Shakespearean Drama
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakesperare
“Duty” by Pamela Rafael
Collection
MAY-JUNE
5“A
MATTER OF
LIFE OR
DEATH”
Essential
Questions:
ELA
Standards
- Can adversity test us and shape who we are?
Rl 1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis
Rl 2: Determne a central idea
Rl 3: Analyze ideas
Rl 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases
Rl 5: Analyze how ideas are developed and refined
Rl 7: Analyze representations of different mediums
Rl 9: Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a nspecific work
W2: Write texts to examinecomplexideas clearly and accurate through effective organization and analysis
W 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences
W9: Draw evidence form literay or informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research
W 10: Write routinely over extenden and shorter time frames
SL 1: Participate in collaborative discussions
L1a: Use parallel structure
L1b: Use various types of phrases
L4a: Use ocntext as a clue to the meaning of a word phrase
L4c:Consult reference material
L4d:Verify the meaning of a word phrase
L5a: Interpret figures of speech
Concepts
and Skills
Memoir
Argument
Science Writing
Short Story
Poem
Content
Objectives
Students will:
Assessments
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Products
Types of Writing
Analyze an authors purpose and his use of rhetoric impact of word choice on tone
Delineate and evaluate an argument by examming a claim and the evidence provided to support that claim
Conduct a debate
Write an argument about the personal qualities neccessary for survival
Participate in panel disscussions
Texts
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Memoir “Night” by Ellie Weisel
Is Survival Selfish?
“The leap” by Louise Erdrich
“The end and the begginning”
“Who understands me but me: by Jimmy Sanrtiago
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CLASSROOM RULES
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Arrive on tim e
Be additive
Participate fully
Be open to new ideas
Respect yourself, the teacher and others
Bring m aterials
Hand in homework and projects on time
Good use of ipad
Speak english
II. EVALUATIO N CRITERIA
Classwork-30
Participation/Language Usage-30
Projects-10
Quiz-10
Exam-15
Attendance: 5pts
Total: 100 points
III. BO O K REFERENCES
Collections grade 9
IV. W EBSITE SO URCES
www. http://www.hmhco.com