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ENRICHED ENGLISH 9
2007 - 2008
I. Short Stories
A. Survival of the Fittest
1. “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell
2. “A Sound of Thunder” Ray Bradbury
3. “The Birds” Daphne du Maurier
4. “The Interlopers” Saki
5. Signs video
B. Other Possible Texts
1. “Thank You, Ma’am” Langston Hughes
2. “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut
3. “The Washwoman” Isaac Bashevis Singer
4. “The Gift of the Magi” O. Henry
5. “The Necklace” G. de Maupassant
6. “The Gift” Ray Bradbury
7. “The Scarlet Ibis” J. Hurst
8. “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar A. Poe
9. “A Man Called Horse” Dorothy M. Johnson
10. “When I Lay My Burden Down” Maya Angelou
II. Novels
A) To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
B) Lord of the Flies William Golding
C) Realistic fiction or autobiography or biography reader's choice -
Accelerated Reading book
III. Assessments
A) Writing Assignments
1. book report To Kill a Mockingbird
2. compare/contrast Survival of the Fittest
3. literary response Lord of the Flies
B) Research Activities / Application Activities
1. Deep South To Kill a Mockingbird
2. On the wild side Survival of the Fittest
3. Human nature's darker side Lord of the Flies
C) Quizzes
1. Accelerated Reading/ comprehension To Kill a Mockingbird
2. On the wild side Survival of the Fittest
3. The human condition Becoming Stronger
4. Than and now Making good choices
5. Accelerated Reading/comprehension Lord of the Flies
D) Quarter Review Test
1. Story elements skills
Second Quarter
I. Persuasive Writing Samples
A. “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” Chief Joseph
B. “The Writer’s Purpose” Janet Burroway
C. “Darkness at Noon” Harold Krents
D. “Homeless” Anna Quindlen
E. “Save Hillhouse”
F. “A Little Respect, Please”
II. Novels of Class Reading
A) War story reader's choice
B) story in another country reader's choice
III. Assessments
A) Writing Assignments
1. Write a persuasive essay
B) Research Activities / Application Activities
1. Persuasive Research Topic essay
2. Media Application project
C) Quizzes
1. persuasive elements
2. Quarter Review Test
Third Quarter
I. Poetry –
A) Elements of Poetry - possible samples
1. “Elements of Literature” John Malcolm Brining
a) “Imagery: Seeing Things Freshly”
b) “Figures of Speech”
c) “Sound of Poetry”
d) “You've Got Rhythm”
2. Alliteration/ Assonance/ Consonance
a) “The Listeners” - Walter de la Mare
b) “The Fish” - Elizabeth Bishop
3. Onomatopoeia
a) “The Peacock” - Deborah Chandra
b) “Winter” - William Shakespeare
4. Word choice (diction)
a) “Meeting at Night” - Robert Browning
b) “I Never Saw a Moor” - Emily Dickinson
c) “Kidnap Poem” - Nikki Giovanni
5. Imagery
a) “The Girl Who Loved the Sky” - Anita Enrezze
b) “The Great Figure” - William Carlos Williams
c) “Meeting at Night” - Robert Browning
6. Metaphors / Similes
a) “Fog” - Carl Sandburg
b) "Willow and Ginkgo” - Eve Merriam
7. Allusion/ apostrophe/ clichés/ hyperbole
a) “A Negro Speaks of Rivers” - Langston Hughes
b) “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” - Anonymous
c) “Heart We Will Forget Him” - Emily Dickinson
8. Personification
a) “Check” - James Stephens
9. Symbols
a) “The Road Not Traveled” Robert Frost
b) "The Girl Who Loved the Sky - Anita Endrezze
c) “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” - Emily Dickinson
B) Structure of Poetry (possible choices)
1. Traditional Poetry - lyric poems
a) “Winter” - William Shakespeare
b) “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” - William Wordsworth
c) “There Will Come Soft Rains” - Sara Teasdale
d) “My Papa's Waltz” - Theodore Roethke
2. Blank Verse
a) "The Mending Wall" - Robert Frost
b) “Memory” - Margaret Walker
3. Free Verse
a) “maggie and milly and molly and may - E. E. Cummings
b) “The Gift” - Li-Young Lee
c) “Combing” - Gladys Cardiff
d) “American Hero” - Essex Hemphill
4. Sonnets
a) “The Sound of the Sea” - Henry Wadworth Longfellow
b) “Sonnet 30” - William Shakespeare
D) Written Samples
1. Elements of Poetry – one of each type
2. Structure of Poetry – one of each type
3. Types of Poetry – one of each type
E) Application/Research
1. Research poetry books for samples of lyric, blank, and free verse poems
2. Use multi-media sources to find figurative language
F) Assessments
1. Pre-test assessment
2. Figurative Language quiz
3. Poetry samples quiz
4. Poetry Post test assessment
II. Animal Farm
A. Novel Activities
B. Research Activities
C. Quizzes
FOURTH QUARTER
I. Drama:
A. Elements of Drama Robert Anderson
B. Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
C. Romeo and Juliet film Frank Zefferelli, Director
D. Romeo and Juliet film Bas
III. Assessments
A) Writing Assignments
1. Act I: Who are the players? Descriptive essay
2. Act II: Romeo in Love Narrative response
3. Act III: Juliet’s choices Narrative response
4. Act IV: Who is responsible? Opinion essay
B) Research Activities / Application Activities
1. Act I and II – Reader’s Choice Application
2. Act III, IV and V – Reader’s Choice Application
3. Film Research activity – tragic lovers Research bullets
4. Renaissance and Shakespeare Power point and presentation
5. Find and Identify the Characters chart
C) Quizzes
1. Acts I, II, III, IV and V quizzes
2. End of play test
3. Quote quiz test
II. Science Fiction
A. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
B. “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut
C. Minority Report Steven Spielberg, Director
D.
III. Assessments
A) Writing Assignments
1. Censorship Research Research Report
2. Science Fiction Cause and Effect essay
B) Research Activities / Application Activities
1. Historical research topics Research report/presentation
2. Censorship essay
C) Quizzes
1. Fahrenheit 451 AR test
2. Science Fiction multiple choice test
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