Language Arts 9 Exemption Checklist (PR)
Name of student
Textbook used at ADLC Crossroads 9
Textbook used by student
Please fax checklists to 780-674-7593 or e-mail to exemptions@adlc.ca
Module
Name
1
Welcome Aboard!
- Journal writing
- Reading strategies
o Skimming
o Scanning
o SQ3R
- Formal and informal language
- Denotation and connotation; thesaurus use
- Reading Comprehension
- Writing process – Essay writing
o Role, purpose, audience
o Generating ideas
o Outline
o Organization
o Revising and editing
2
All that I Am
- Poetic techniques
(imagery, mood, simile, personification,
rhyme, rhythm, pacing, emphasis, mood,
metaphor, simile, pun, theme, symbol)
- Visual representation
- Short story (plot, flashback)
- News story (planning, writing and reading)
- Free Verse
- Anecdotes
- Effective sentences
Turning Points
- Direct/Indirect Presentation
- Writing short stories
- Types of conflict, foreshadowing
- Character, setting, point of view
- Writing dialogue
3
Completed
√
Mark
Exemption
Issued
(ADLC use only)
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Ballads (onomatopoeia, alliteration)
Narrative Poetry (oral reading)
Sentence types
4
Final Frontiers
- Poetry and Sonnets (form, tone, rhythm,
rhyme, parody, allusion)
- Sentence punctuation (dash, ellipsis, semicolon, and colon)
- Non-fiction
- Interview skills
- Research skills
- Bibliographies
- Oral presentation
- Subject/verb agreement
5
A World of Tales
- Oral story telling; legends, folk tales;
pourquoi tales; Greek mythology
- Analogy
- Sentence variety
- Verb tense
- Comic strips
- Novel study
6
Fast Forward
- Media persuasive essay
- Satire
- Advertisement analysis
- Advertisement communication
- Telephone communication
- Email
- Formal letters and envelope
7
A Better World
- Friendly letter
- Comparative paragraphs
- Reading and staging a play
- Descriptive detailing
- Presenting a speech
- Sentence combining and parallel structure
- Review parts of speech
Overall mark (rather than individual module marks)
School where student completed this work
Teacher’s name and contact information