Pacing Chart
McFarland High School
English 9/ School Year 2008/9
Week
Quarter  
Day/
Wee
k
1
1
2
M
Tu
Vocabulary,
W
Th
AR Testing
*P. 464, 463 (1/2)
P94, 
Benchmark
Test
F
2
M
Tu
W
Th
F
3
M
Tu
W
Th
Essays/Grammar
Vocabulary
Short Stories
”Cask of
Amontillado”
Draw the final
scene
Vocabulary
Short Stories
”Cask of
Amontillado”
“Trifles” & “Jury
of Her Peers”
Vocabulary, 476A
Schaffer Essays
Essays/Grammar
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“Trifles” & “Jury
of Her Peers”
205-208, 475A,
476A, 495A
4
Vocabulary
Schaffer Essays
Essays/Grammar
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“Trifles” & “Jury
of Her Peers”
Create shoe-box
scene of play
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Rewrite the story from
Fortunato’s POV OR create
in comic book form
Vocabulary
Novel:
Farewell to
Manzanar
Research
Paper—Author
Non-Fiction
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction
282-284, 370, 371,
407-415HW, 417426HW, 
427HW, 430-449,
503
P90A, 91, 266, 268
6
Essays/Grammar
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction
7
8
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“Scarlet Ibis”
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“Scarlet Ibis”
Portfolio, p81
P40-46, 221
P7, 8, 464
Literary Chart
(LC), **P94A, 95A,
P16, 107, 168, 
154-165, 167, 169,
170, 172A, 178A,
204A, 476A, 504A
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Treatment of the
Disabled
Brother’s Relationship
with Doodle
Revenge
Vocabulary
Short Stories
Necklace:
Vocabulary
Poetry
(paraphrase/
summarize)
Vocabulary
Novel:
Vocabulary
P464A,466A,
476A, 480, 483,
484, 495
Benchmark
Test
Begin
Farewell to
Manzanar
Catch up
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“The
Necklace”
&/or “The
Things They
Carried”
222A, 233A
Things Carried:
149-152A
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
TP-CSST, SPAMRAP, P34, 35, 92,
182, 193, 222,
223, 256, 257,
263; HOLT440
Vocabulary
Short Stories
“Cask of
Amontillado”
9
Vocabulary
Schaffer
Essays
Compare/Contrast play
to short story
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction
Research Paper
5
(LC), **P94A,
95A, P16, 107,
168, 
Venn Diagram,
(LC), P94A, 95A,
P16, 107, 168, 
KWL; P94A, 95A,
454, 
4
Vocabulary, 95, 
Schaffer Essays
3
(LC), P94A, 95A,
P16, 107, 166, 168,
94-98, 99-105, 108,
114, 115, 118,
476A
Vocabulary
Benchmark
Test
Catch up
Essays/Grammar
(LC), P16, 107, 168
P20, 21, 22
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Vocabulary
Novel: END
Farewell to
Manzanar
(F to M AR TEST)
Research
Paper DUE
Vocabulary
Odyssey
Vocabulary
Odyssey
Vocabulary
Ancient
Greeks/Theater
/Mythology
Ancient
Greeks/Theater
/Mythology
Mr. Loisel’s FATAL
FLAW/Symbolism of the
things carried by the
soldiers
Vocabulary
Non-Fiction
“Going for the
Look”
P94A, 95A,
476A
Research Paper
Research
Paper
Research
Paper
Benchmark
Test
Catch up
F
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
Essays/Grammar
M
Tu
W
Th
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Odyssey
Vocabulary
Odyssey
Vocabulary
Romeo & Juliet
Elizabethan
Age/Globe
Theater/Shakes
peare
KWL(466); P94A,
95A, 316,
320-325, 
Vocabulary
Romeo &
Juliet
Elizabethan
Age/Globe
Theater/Shake
speare
329, 354, 355,
360
Vocabulary
Romeo & Juliet
Play
KWL, P285-292,
293, 295, 300, 
Vocabulary
Romeo & Juliet
Play
301, 302, 306310, 313, 314,
330, 332, 340
Vocabulary
Romeo & Juliet
MOVIE:
P298
Vocabulary
Essays/Grammar
P297
Essays/Grammar
P456T
Essays/Grammar
P469T
F
Cram for STAR
Test—Grammar,
etc.
Essays/Grammar
Odyssey
Essays/Grammar
Odyssey
Essays/Grammar
*Page numbers refer to the students’ 9 Grade SpringBoard Book unless otherwise noted.
**An “A” following a page number indicates that the page needs to be adapted to the story.
***A “T” before the page number indicates that the pages are those in the Teacher’s Edition of said SpringBoard Book.
th
P508
Essays/Grammar
P794T
Essays/Grammar
Romeo’s Fatal Flaw
Benchmark
Test/Finals