English Language Arts Curriculum Grade 9
Coventry High School
Grade 9: Survey of Literature and Writing Essentials
Required Texts/Readings
Literary Text:
Of Mice and Men
Shakespearian Drama:
Romeo and Juliet OR Julius
Caesar
Informational Text:
Night OR Close to Shore
Supplementary selections
available:
Beastly
The Giver
Sources of Light
House on Mango Street
Into the Woods
The Alchemist
Write Source
Suggested Instructional
Strategies
Background Information on
Author and Text
Formative Assessment
strategies
 Jigsaw
 Anticipation Guide
 KWL
Journals
Double Column Notes
Text-based Discussions
Scene Re-enactment
Venn Diagram
Compare/contrast
Reading Comprehension
Quizzes
Scene Re-writes
Summaries
Debate
Character Wall
Vocabulary Cards
Multiple Intelligences
activities
RAFT
Materials to Supplement
Instructional Units
Of Mice and Men
 Gallery walk
 Jigsaw activity –
articles on
background/Great
Depression
 Debt Counter
 Presidential quotes –
then and now
 American Dream songs
Julius Caesar
 Mini coup d’état
activity
 Connection to current
events – always a coup
somewhere
 Exploring mob
mentality – LA riots
 BBC cartoons – plot
support
Romeo & Juliet
 Hatfield McCoy
 Articles on arranged
marriages
Required Common
Tasks
 PARCC-style
Reading
Assessment
 Introduction to
Narrative Writing
 Introduction to
Argument Writing
 Introduction to
Informational
Writing- Character
Analysis and/or
Thematic Analysis
 Introduction to
Informational
Writing/ResearchScuppie Project
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English Language Arts Curriculum Grade 9
Coventry High School
Grade 9: Survey of Literature and Writing Essentials
 TV show clips –
Parental Control
Night
 IBM article –
cataloguing victims for
efficiency
 Hitler Youth and
background
information Power
Points
 Film: Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
 Film: Hotel Rwanda
 Holocaust poetry
 Gallery Walk
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