Grade 9 Instructional Resources

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3	9A Analysis
4	English 9A MP2 Sample Pacing Guide	This pacing guide is designed so that students engage with a range of complex texts, standards-based skills, and multiple and varied writing opportunities during virtual learning in the 2020-2021 school year. This sample pacing guide represents our best thinking without knowing the students in your classroom. By back-mapping the standards that are the focus of the instruction for the unit, you have flexibility in implementing the curriculum to meet the needs of your students. This pacing guide was designed to account for two hours of live, synchronous instruction per week and one hour of asynchronous instruction.	MCPS English	Quarter 2	9A Analysis, pacing guide, virtual learning, blended learning
5	English 9A MP 2 Teacher-Created Resources	The resources outlined in this overview have been designed to provide flexible models for instruction that teachers may incorporate into their lessons during distance learning for MP2. Materials are organized by topic/skill and are aligned to the Pacing Guide for MP2.	Shelby Davis Lauren Black	Quarter 2	9A Analysis, pacing guide, virtual learning, blended learning
6	9A Analysis- An Analysis of Text, Including a Discussion of Style	This lesson package includes resources for teaching elements of style, practice for students to analyze for style, writing claim statements, incorporating evidence, and providing feedback.	Nick Confino, Heather Duke, Shannon James, and Samantha Wannen	Common Task	9A Analysis, style, evidence, claim, feedback
7	An analyis of a text, including a discussion of the author's style.	The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the common task to write an analytical response to a text, including a discussion of the author's style. Students will identify what makes up a writer's "style," then learn how to analyze that style before analyzing Ellen Goodman's "A Company Man."		Common Task	9A Analysis, flipchart, style, rubric
8	9A Mini-Analyses on Style: Sample Formative Assessment	This resource contains passages excerpted from three 9B core texts—The House on Mango Street, A Farewell to Arms, and Cry, the Beloved Country—that can be distributed to students so they can practice writing analyses of style. Teachers might use this as a formative assessment as students work towards building the skills for the common task.	MCPS	Common Task	9A Analysis, style, formative, assessment, The House on Mango Street, A Farewell to Arms, Cry, the Beloved Country
9	Writing an informative essay on the history or background of a topic	This lesson package guides students through the process of writing an informative essay on the history or background of a topic. Included are activities, instructions, and supplementary handouts that help students conduct research on the background of a topic and then write an informative essay based on that research.	Carrie Vieira	Common Task	9A Analysis, flipchart, informative essay, rubric, peer review
10	Write an informative essay about the background or history of a topic	This lesson is intended to complete 9A common task: write an informative essay that explains the background or history of a topic. The students will both write essays and create interactive Animoto presentations that explain the cause and effect relationship of some aspect of the Olympics. Though this lesson has a specific topic, it can be easily modified to work with another topic. This is meant to be a collaborative lesson between English teachers and media specialists.	Andrea Lamphier	Common Task	9A Analysis, flipchart, informative essay, background, history, Olympics, Animoto, collaborative, media specialist
11	An Informative Essay on the History or Background of a Topic	These lesson packages were created by PLCs during the Cohort Training in the summer of 2016 and 2017. Cohorts were asked to create lessons for common tasks that incorporated their new learning.	Teacher Teams from Summer Cohort Trainings	Common Task	9A, analysis, informative, essay, choice, inductive reasoning, history, background
12	9A Argument
13	Model Essays for the Review	As I worked with my students on the "review of a work of art" writing task, I shared professionally written models in three genres: a book review (from the NY Times, written by a well-known YA author), an album review (from NPR), and a film review from the AV Club website.	Grant S Goldstein	Common Task	9A Argument, review, art, NY Times, NPR, film
14	Argument: An evaluation or review of a work of art	Students begin by attempting to answer question, "what is art?" Students will view examples of art from different mediums, and read and analyze different reviews of paintings, sculptures, books, music and movies.	John E. Howard	Common Task	9A Argument, evaluation, review, art
15	An Evaluation or Review of a Work of Art	These lesson packages were created by PLCs during the Cohort Training in the summer of 2016 and 2017. Cohorts were asked to create lessons for common tasks that incorporated their new learning.	Teacher Teams from Summer Cohort Trainings	Common Task	9A, Argument, evaluation, review, art
16	An Argument that Incorporates Alternative or Opposing Views	This lesson uses two essays from Models for Writers and graphic organizers as guides for students' essays. This is a multi-day lesson that builds to the common task.	Mark A. Carothers	Common Task	9A Argument, alternative view, opposing view
17	Argument that looks at both sides of an issue (into to synthesis)	This lesson package can be used when teaching the common task: an argument that incorporates alternative or opposing views.	Dawn Charles	Common Task	9A Argument, alternative view, opposing view, synthesis
18	An Argument that Incorporates Alternative or Opposing Views	These lesson packages were created by PLCs during the Cohort Training in the summer of 2016 and 2017. Cohorts were asked to create lessons for common tasks that incorporated their new learning.	Teacher Teams from Summer Cohort Trainings	Common Task	9A Argument, alternative view, opposing view, synthesis
19	Investigations: Exploring Analysis and Argument in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men	The materials in this package can be used to connect analysis of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men with the writing and rhetoric skills required to write an argument incorporating alternative viewpoints. Open the Rationale/Description for a more comprehensive overview of the unit.	Erika V Rao	Common Task, Texts	9A Argument, alternative view, opposing view, techniques, rhetoric, Of Mice and Men, double entry journal, synthesis, John Steinbeck
20	9A Narrative
21	English 9A MP1 Sample Pacing Guide	This pacing guide is designed so that students engage with a range of complex texts, standards-based skills, and multiple and varied writing opportunities during virtual learning in the 2020-2021 school year. This sample pacing guide represents our best thinking without knowing the students in your classroom. By back-mapping the standards that are the focus of the instruction for the unit, you have flexibility in implementing the curriculum to meet the needs of your students. This pacing guide was designed to account for two hours of live, synchronous instruction per week and one hour of asynchronous instruction.	MCPS English	Quarter 1	9A Narrative, pacing guide, community building, sel, virtual learning, blended learning
22	English 9A MP1 Teacher-Created Resources	The resources outlined in this overview have been designed to provide flexible models for instruction that teachers may incorporate into their lessons during distance learning for MP1. Materials are organized by topic/skill and are aligned to the Pacing Guide for MP1.	Samantha Wannen Lauren MacTurk Zachary Lowe	Quarter 1	9A Narrative, pacing guide, community building, sel, virtual learning, blended learning
23	9A Narrative- A Fictional Narrative that Achieves a Particular Effect	This lesson is intended to allow students to identify and analyze author's use of narrative techniques. Students will use the narrative techniques of their choice to achieve a particular effect such as characterization, theme, mood, eliciting an emotional response, etc.	Nick Confino, Heather Duke, Shannon James, and Samantha Wannen	Common Task	9A Narrative, effect, style, dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, plot, theme, mood, characterization
24	A fictional narrative that achieves a particular effect (humor)	This lesson is intended to allow students to use the multi-step writing and revision process to create a fictional narrative that achieves a particular effect (in this case, humor). The students will analyze multiple different texts that incorporate elements of humor, including wit, satire, parody, exaggeration, and irony.		Common Task	9A Narrative, effect, humor, writing, wit, satire, parody, exaggeration, irony
25	Telling Someone Else's Story	In this lesson, students interview their classmates in order to write a narrative about a significant event in the life of another person. After this initial activity, other options are given for completing the writing task.	MCPS	Common Task	9A Narrative, interview, story, significant event, other person
26	A Narrative About a Significant Event in the Life of Another Person	These lesson packages were created by PLCs during the Cohort Training in the summers of 2016 and 2017. Cohorts were asked to create lessons for common tasks that incorporated their new learning.	Teacher Teams from Summer Cohort Trainings	Common Task	9A Narrative, story, significant event, other person
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