HAVERHILL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Grade 9 English Language Arts Curriculum Map
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
Teaching to Language Standards 1-6
[LA 2.5, LA3.14, LA 3.16, LA 4.25,
LA 6.8, LA 6.9]
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Teaching to Language Standards 1-6
[LA 3.14, LA 3.15, LA 4.23, LA
4.25, LA 5.25, LA 5.29, LA 6.9]
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Additional Resources:
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 18: Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 19: Prepositions,
Conjunctions, and Interjections
Additional Resources:
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 20: Complete Subjects and
Predicates
Additional Resources:
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 21: Phrases and Clauses
Chapter 22: Effective Sentences
Required Assessment:
•
Grammar and Usage Pre-test
•
Gates-MacGinitie Pretest
Language
Adaptations/Accommodations
•
Heath Grammar and
Composition
•
Pacemaker Basic English
Language
Adaptations/Accommodations
•
Heath Grammar and
Composition
•
Pacemaker Basic English
Language
Adaptations/Accommodations
•
Heath Grammar and
Composition
•
Pacemaker Basic English
Language
Adaptations/Accommodations
•
Heath Grammar and
Composition
•
Pacemaker Basic English
Weekly Vocabulary: Prentice Hall,
Vocabulary Workshop and MCAS
glossary or SAT, Sadlier-Oxford
Level D, VocabuLit Level I
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 11.5, RL15.8, RL 16.11]
Weekly Vocabulary: Prentice Hall,
Vocabulary Workshop and MCAS
glossary or SAT, Sadlier-Oxford
Level D, VocabuLit Level I
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 9.6 RL 16.11,RL 14.5]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Epic Poetry p. 950
• The Odyssey Part I,
• “Perseus,”
• “Siren Song”
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Epic Poetry p. 993
• The Odyssey Part II
• “Alabanza: In Praise of Local
100”
Weekly Vocabulary: Prentice Hall,
Vocabulary Workshop and MCAS
glossary or SAT, Sadlier-Oxford
Level D, VocabuLit Level I
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 8.30, RL 10.5, RL 11.5, RL
12.5, RL 15.7, RL 18.5, , RL 8.30,
RL 15.7, RL 13.24]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Fiction/Nonfiction
• “The Washwoman,”
• “Sonata for Harp and Bicycle,”
• “The Cask of Amontillado,”
Weekly Vocabulary: Prentice Hall,
Vocabulary Workshop and MCAS
glossary or SAT, Sadlier-Oxford
Level D, VocabuLit Level I
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 11.5, RL 13.25, LA 6.9, RL
8.29, RL 8.30, RL 9.6, RL 11.5, RL
12.5, RL 15.7, RL 12.5, RL17.8]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Short Stories p. 182
• “The Most Dangerous Game,”
• “The Gift of the Magi,”
• “The Interlopers,”
Teaching to Language Standards 1-6 Teaching to Language Standards 1-6
[LA 1.5, LA.3.15, LA 3.16 LA 4.24] [LA 1.5, LA.3.15, LA 3.16 LA 4.24
LA 6.8]
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Transparencies
Additional Resources:
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 16: Nouns
Chapter 17: Verbs
The Mission of Haverhill High School is to produce self-directed learners who read, write, and speak effectively in Standard English and who apply
analytical and technological skills to interpret information and problem solve. Students will be evaluated twice yearly on the NEASC rubrics for reading,
writing, and speaking in language arts.
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Grade 9 English Language Arts Curriculum Map
• “from A White House Diary,”
• “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
• “The Necklace”
• “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird”
Novel Study: A Separate Peace, John
Knowles
Reading
Adaptations/Accommodations
Reading
Adaptations/ Accommodations
• Reader’s Notebook Adapted Version
• “The Odyssey”
• EMC Write-In Reader
• “The Odyssey”
Reading
Adaptations/ Accommodation
Reading
Additional Outside Reading for Q 1
• The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Additional Outside Reading for Q 1
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula
Le Guin
• The Odyssey trans. By Robert
Fagles
Additional Outside Reading for Q 2
• A Pocketful of Rye, Agatha Christie
• Great Expectations, Charles
Dickens
• Rosa Parks: My Story, Rosa Parks
• Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version
• “The Odyssey”
• EMC Write-In Reader
• “ Echo and Narcissus”
• “The Story of Daedalus and
Icarus”
Adaptations/ Accommodation
• Reader’s Notebook Adapted Version
• “New Directions”
• “Sonata For Harp and Bicycle”
• From “A White House Diary”
• “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
• Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version
• “The Most Dangerous Game”
• “The Gift of the Magi”
• “The Interlopers”
• “The Necklace”
• “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird”
• EMC Write-In Reader
• “The Most Dangerous
• Game”
• “The Gift of the Magi”
• “The Interlopers”
Additional Outside Reading for Q 2
• The Sea Wolf and Selected Stories,
Jack London
• Literature of the Expanding
Frontier
• Prentice Hall Anthology
• The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries,
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Grade 9 English Language Arts Curriculum Map
Essential Questions:
• How is this hero a universal model
for heroes?
• How are belief systems represented
and reproduced through history,
literature, art and music?
Essential Questions:
• What do we know about the past by
reading this selection?
• When is it appropriate to challenge
the beliefs or values of society?
Essential Questions:
• How does the author convey
emotion to the reader? How do
these selections impact the reader?
• How does an individual’s point of
view affect the way they deal with
each other?
Required Reading Strategies
• Making predictions
• Author’s purpose
Required Reading Strategies
• Connecting to prior knowledge.
• Find the main idea
• Visualize
Required Reading Strategies
• Identify the author’s purpose
• Relating personal experience
• Cultural and Historical Context
Additional Reading Strategies:
• Read with a purpose
• Connect to prior knowledge
• Write things down
• Visualize
• Tackling difficult vocabulary
• Monitor your reading progress
Additional Reading Strategies:
• Read with a purpose
• Connect to prior knowledge
• Write things down
• Visualize
• Tackling difficult vocabulary
• Monitor your reading progress
Additional Reading Strategies:
• Read with a purpose
• Connect to prior knowledge
• Write things down
• Visualize
• Tackling difficult vocabulary
• Monitor your reading progress
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25
[CO 19.27, CO 20.5, CO 21.8]
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25
[CO 19.27, CO 20.5, CO 21.8]
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Required Writing Assessments:
• Summer reading response
• Literary Analysis essay:
Character sketch. “How is
Odysseus a typical epic hero?”
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Creative Writing: Recreate one
episode as drama.
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Required Writing Assessments:
• Compare/Contrast. “How is the
film different from the poem and
why does the director make those
changes?
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Creative writing: Odysseus
journal entry after return home or
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25
[CO 19.24, CO 22.9, CO 21.8, CO
23.13, CO 25.5]
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Required Writing Assessments:
• Autobiographical Narrative
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Problem-and-solution essay
Essential Questions:
• How is irony conveyed by the
different authors?
• In the face of adversity, what
causes some people to prevail
while others fail?
Required Reading Strategies
• Inferences
• Cause and Effect
Additional Reading Strategies:
• Read with a purpose
• Connect to prior knowledge
• Write things down
• Visualize
• Tackling difficult vocabulary
• Monitor your reading progress
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25
[CO 23.3, CO 20.5, CO 23.13, CO
19.24, CO 21.8]
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Required Writing Assessments:
• Short story writing
• Cause and Effect essay
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
•
Response to literature
The Mission of Haverhill High School is to produce self-directed learners who read, write, and speak effectively in Standard English and who apply
analytical and technological skills to interpret information and problem solve. Students will be evaluated twice yearly on the NEASC rubrics for reading,
writing, and speaking in language arts.
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Creative Writing: Create a
brochure of the itinerary for
Odysseus cruise.
Writing
Adaptations/ Accommodations
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version
•
Reading/Writing Connections p.
318 – 341
•
EMC Writer’s Notebook p. 206 –
229
Teaching Media Standards 26 – 27
• CD and/or cassette recordings
• The Odyssey DVD Part I
• Oh, Brother. Where Art Thou?
DVD
Media Adaptation
Accommodations
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version p. 326
•
EMC Write-In Reader p. 229
years later.
Writing
Adaptations/ Accommodations
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version
•
Reading/Writing Connections p.
318 – 341
•
EMC Write-In Reader p. 238 –
244, p. 245 – 251
Teaching Media Standards 26 – 27
•
CD and/or cassette recordings
•
The Odyssey DVD Part II
•
Oh, Brother. Where Art Thou?
DVD
Media Adaptation
Accommodations
•
EMC Write-In Reader p. 244, p.
251
Writing
Adaptations/ Accommodations
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version
•
Reading/Writing Connections p.
20 – 25 , p. 30 – 38 , 42 – 49 p.
58-63
Writing
Adaptations/ Accommodations
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version p. 82 – 90
•
EMC Write-In Reader p. 81 –
108
Teaching Media Standards 26 – 27
[ME 27.6]
•
CD recordings
•
From the Author’s Desk DVD
Teaching Media Standards 26 – 27
[ME 26.5, ME 27.7]
•
CD recordings
•
From the Author’s Desk DVD
Media Adaptation
Accommodations
Media Adaptation
Accommodations
•
•
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version p.63
•
Quarterly Assessments
•
Grammar and Usage Pretest
•
Gates-MacGinitie Pretest
•
P H Progress Monitoring
Assessments
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
Reader’s Notebook Adapted
Version p. 90, p. 104, p. 112,
p. 123
EMC Write-In Reader p. 108,
p. 119, p. 144
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
HAVERHILL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Grade 9 English Language Arts Curriculum Map
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
Teaching to Language Standards 1
– 6:
[LA 2.5 , LA 3.14, LA 4.23, LA
5.23, LA 5.27, LA 5.28, LA 6.9]
Teaching to Language Standards 1
– 6:
[LA 3.14, LA 4.25, LA 5.23, LA
5.26,]
MARCH/APRIL
Teaching to Language Standards 1
– 6:
[LA2.5, LA 3.14, LA 3.15, LA 3.16,
LA 4.23, LA 4.24, LA 4.25, LA 5.26,
LA 5.27, LA 5.28, LA 5.29]
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Additional ResourcesPrentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 23: Verb Usage
Chapter 24: Pronoun Usage
Additional ResourcesPrentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 25: Agreement
Chapter 26: Using Modifiers
Weekly Vocabulary:
•
Prentice Hall, Vocabulary
Workshop
•
MCAS glossary or SAT
•
Sadlier-Oxford Level D or
Vocabu-Lit Level I
Weekly Vocabulary:
•
Prentice Hall, Vocabulary
Workshop
•
MCAS glossary or SAT
•
Sadlier-Oxford Level D or
Vocabu-Lit Level I
Additional ResourcesPrentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 27: Miscellaneous Problems
in Usage
Chapter 28: Capitalization
Weekly Vocabulary:
•
Prentice Hall, Vocabulary
Workshop
•
MCAS glossary or SAT
•
Sadlier-Oxford Level D or
Vocabu-Lit Level I
MAY/JUNE
Teaching to Language Standards 1
– 6:
[LA 5.24, LA 5.29, LA 6.9]
Prentice Hall Daily Language
Transparencies
Additional ResourcesPrentice Hall Writing and Grammar
Gold Level
Chapter 29: Punctuation
Weekly Vocabulary:
•
Prentice Hall, Vocabulary
Workshop
•
MCAS glossary or SAT
•
Sadlier-Oxford Level D or
Vocabu-Lit Level I
The Mission of Haverhill High School is to produce self-directed learners who read, write, and speak effectively in Standard English and who apply
analytical and technological skills to interpret information and problem solve. Students will be evaluated twice yearly on the NEASC rubrics for reading,
writing, and speaking in language arts.
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Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 8.30, RL 8.31, RL 11.5, RL
13.24]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Nonfiction p. 386
• Night
•
“A Celebration of Grandfathers,”
•
“On Summer,”
•
“The News,”
•
“Carry Your Own Skis,”
•
“Libraries Face Sad Chapter,”
•
“I Have a Dream”
Additional Outside Reading for Q 3
• Biography and Autobiography,
Prentice Hall Anthology
• Places Left Unfinished at the Time
of Creation, John Philip Santos
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth,
Sojourner Truth
• Touch the Top of the World, Erik
Weihenmayer
Essential Questions:
• What is the author’s purpose?
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 8.29, RL 8.30, RL 9.6,RL 11.5,
RL 13.24, RL 14.5,RL 15.7, RL
16.11, RL 17.8]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Poetry p. 550
• “Dream Deferred,”
• “Dreams,”
• “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,”
• “Meciendo/Rocking,”
• “Sonnet on Love XIII,”
• “All Watched Over by Machines of
Loving Grace,”
• “Hope is the thing with Feathers,”
• “Much Madness is Divinest
Sense,”
• “The War Against the Trees”
• “The Bells,”
• “Slam, Dunk & Hook,”
• “The Jabberwocky,”
• “Casey at the Bat,”
• “Fifteen,”
• “Twister His Houston,”
• “The Road Not Taken,”
• “We never know how high we are,”
• “Macavity: The Mystery Cat”
Additional Outside Reading for Q 3
• Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy’s
Will and North of Boston
• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• The Complete Poetry of Edgar
Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
Essential Questions:
• In what ways is poetry different
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 8.29, RL 9.6, RL 15.7, RL 17.7,
RL 17.8, RL 18.5]
Teaching Reading and Literature
Standards: 7 – 18
[RL 8.30, RL 9.6, RL 11.5, RL
13.25]
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading: Drama p.702
•
Romeo and Juliet
•
The Inspector General
Literature Text: Prentice Hall
Core Reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Additional Outside Reading for Q 4
• Four Plays by Tennessee Williams,
Tennessee Williams
• Twentieth-Century American
Drama
• A Prentice Hall Anthology
• Six Characters in Search of an
Author, Luigi Pirandello
• The Miracle Worker, Helen Keller
Essential Questions:
• Shakespeare includes poetical
Additional Outside Reading for Q 4
• This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolf
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne
Frank (if not read in MS)
• Dawn, Elie Weisel
• The Color of Water, McBride
Essential Questions:
• The chapters are not titled or
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Grade 9 English Language Arts Curriculum Map
• What are the responsibilities of the
individual in regard to issues of
social justice?
from prose; how is it similar?
• Can literature serve as a vehicle for
social change?
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25 [CO 19.26, CO 20.5]
MCAS Practice
• MCAS released items
• Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Teaching Media Standards 26–27
ME 27.6
•
CD recordings
•
From the Author’s Desk DVD
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25 [CO 19.25, CO 19.26, CO
19.27, CO 23.13, CO 24.5, CO 25.5]
Required Writing Assessments:
• Poetry writing
• Descriptive Essay
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments
• Response to Literature
Reading Strategies
• Reading fluently
• Paraphrase
• Visualizing
MCAS Practice
• MCAS released items
• Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Teaching Media Standards 26–27
ME 26.5
•
CD recordings
•
From the Author’s Desk DVD
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
Required Writing Assessments:
• Autobiographical narrative
• Persuasive editorial
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Descriptive essay
Reading Strategies
• Main idea and supporting detail
• Persuasive Appeals
elements in his dramatic story
telling. How does this impact the
overall story?
• Are we governed/guided by fate,
free will, a greater power, or do we
fall somewhere on the spectrum
between?
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25 [CO 19.24, CO 19.27, CO
20.5]
Required Writing Assessments:
• Research paper
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Comparison/Contrast essay
• Creative writing: epilogue
Reading Strategies
• Summarizing
• Visualizing
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Teaching Media Standards 26–27
ME 27.7
•
CD recordings
•
Romeo and Juliet, Franco
Zefferelli and/or Baz Luhrman
•
West Side Story
Quarterly Assessments
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
numbered what effect does this leave
the reader with? How does the set
up of the novel impact the reader’s
understanding of the events?
• Why is it important for people and
cultures to construct narratives about
their experience?
Teaching Composition Standards:
19 – 25 [CO 21.8, CO 22.9,, CO
23.13]
Required Writing Assessments:
• Persuasion: Editorial
• Problem solution essay
• Update portfolio for Reading Log
and Writing Checklist
Additional Assessments:
• Response to literature
Reading Strategies
• Connecting with the character,
setting, and conflict.
• Identifying the author’s purpose
MCAS Practice
•
MCAS released items
•
Prentice Hall MCAS Prep
Workbook
Teaching Media Standards 26–27
ME 26.5
•
CD recordings
•
Schindler’s List
* Parental Permission required
•
Life is Beautiful
•
“Elie Weisel at Auschwitz”
Quarterly Assessments
•
Grammar and Usage Posttest
•
Gates-MacGinitie Post-test
•
Prentice Hall Literature Progress
Monitoring Assessments
The Mission of Haverhill High School is to produce self-directed learners who read, write, and speak effectively in Standard English and who apply
analytical and technological skills to interpret information and problem solve. Students will be evaluated twice yearly on the NEASC rubrics for reading,
writing, and speaking in language arts.
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Resources and Supplementary Materials:
Prentice Hall Literature, Penguin Edition. Grade 9, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts, 2007.
Additional teacher resources from Prentice Hall include:
• Exam View Test Bank CD-ROM
• From the Author’s Desk DVD Program DVD
• Listening to Literature Audio Program
• Student Express CD
• Teacher Express CD
• Teacher Online Access Pack
• General Resources Book
• Fine Art Transparencies Volume I, Art-Based Activities
• Fine Art Transparencies Volume II, Art History and Appreciation
• Daily Language Practice Transparencies
• Graphic Organizer Transparencies
• Standardized Test Preparation Workbook and Teacher’s Edition
• Skills Development Workbook
• Reading Kit, Reading and Literacy Intervention Diagnostic and Benchmark Tests
• Teaching Resources for Units 1-6
• MCAS Preparation Workbook
• Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Reader’s Notebooks/Reader’s Adapted Version
• Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar text (one set of 30 for each grade level per school)
• Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar Handbook Edition
• The Writer’s Craft. Grade 8. McDougal-Littell and Company, 1995
• “Themes and Essential Questions” from Greece Central School District http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Essential%20Questions/
• Deeper Reading and Reading Reasons by Kelly Gallagher