EN GLISH 9 H O N O RSM RS. BARRETT

Academic English 2018-19

Unique to my classroom:

- Bonus Bucks- The LOG

SHORT LITERATURE

Short Stories,Fables,Poetry,Non-Fict ional

Tales, Excerpts

This unit is designed to incorporate a wide

array of literature which will include both

fict ion and non-fict ion to improve reading

comprehension, inferencing, and

interpret ing. We will study literary

elements, theme, characterizat ion,

figurat ive language, and the historical

context of each work.

Into Thin Air & Into The Wild - both by Jon Krakauer

?The Necklace? - Guy de Maupassant

?The Monkey?s Paw? - W.W. Jacobs

?The Black Cat? - Edgar Allan Poe

?The Most Dangerous Game? - Richard Connell

?The Interlopers? - Saki

?The Secret Life of Walter Mit ty? - James Thurber

?Lady or The Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton

?Lesson of The Moth? - Leo Tolstoy

?American History? - Judith Ort iz Cofer

?The Init iat ion? - Sylvia Plath

?Two Brothers? - Leo Tolstoy

?The Last Night of the World? - Ray Bradbury

?The Scarlet Ibis? - James Hurst,

BOOKS AND LONGER WORKS

ROOM F-109

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

The Odyssey by Homer and

a few other Greek Myths

Romeo and Juliet by

Shakespeare

Unbroken by Laura

Hillenbrand

On The Beach by Nevil

Shute

Vocabulary

Vocabulary for Achievement Fourth Course &

Contextual

Vocabulary

taken from

L iterature

Writing

Narrative,

Persuasive & Informative,Essays, Expository Writing, Writer?s Notebook, Research Paper

Oral Communication

Presentations, Projects, an Informative Speech, Small 1-2 minute Talks, Memorizations & Acting out our stories

Grammar

Formal study with some memorization

Contextual Usage & Application/ Use in Writing