English I (105): Scope and Sequence 2005-06 (barebones)   Lusby, Vollrath, Novo

Course Description: Ninth grade English is an introductory course in virtually every way; however, like all formal English study it is a course of reading, writing, speaking and being present to each other and the language we encounter. The introduction to the computer and its proper use in writing, reading, and vocabulary study will be crucial. Added to the menu of demands: SAT preparation. The advent of the new test, of which two thirds will be language based and one third strictly writing, makes both vocabulary study and the short essay an essential component of executing a successful ninth grade curriculum.  Teachers may, but are not obliged to, include some basic sentence diagramming this year as a component of grammar study.  The literary thread for the year is identity: finding it, forging it, claiming it.

 

Texts:       Vocabulary Workshop/Level E

                Romeo and Juliet.  Penguin Signet Classic

               The Theban Plays of Sophocles. Penguin                

               The Odyssey (Fagels trans.) Penguin

              House on Mango Street Random Vintage

               

               Internet-generated materials

               Internet Romantic Poetry, Essays, and/or Short Stories.

 

              **Summer Reading:  The Secret Life of Bees Kidd

 

FALL SEMESTER

Aug. 15 – 26  The Secret Life of Bees (includes three days of library work)

 

Aug. 29 -- Sept. 16     Vocabulary and Grammar: Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence (Includes OED essay)

 

Sept. 19 -- 30      The House on Mango Street

 

Oct. 3-7      Vocabulary (includes test over vocabulary units 1-3)

 

Oct.10 – 21   Short Story Unit (includes literary analysis essay)

 

Oct. 24 -27   Vocabulary (includes test over vocabulary units 4 and 5)

 

Oct. 27 – Nov. 29  Romeo and Juliet

 

Nov. 30 – Dec. 8   Vocabulary and Grammar: case, complements, phrases, and clauses (includes test over vocabulary 6 and test units 1-6)

 

Dec.9 – 10         Exam Review 

                                         

Spring Semester

 

Jan. 3 – 23   Mythology (power point presentations) and vocabulary (unit 7)

 

Jan. 24 – Feb. 3   Grammar and Vocabulary:  Voice and Modification and vocabulary (unit 8)

 

Feb.6 – March 24   Odyssey Vocabulary (units 9 and 10)

 

March 27 – April 6 Grammar and Vocabulary: Agreement, Reference, and Punctuation

              Vocabulary (units 11 and 12)

April 6 – 12  Small Research Paper (using Questia and library)

 

April 13 – May 10 Oedpus the King (Includes vocabulary 13 -14)

 

May 11 – 17   The Motion Picture

 

May 17-18     Exam Review

 

 

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES for Regular English I (0115)

 

 

GOALS    

·         to instill in students an understanding of the characteristics of significant writers – in various genres and from various cultures and locales -- and their writings

 

·         to give practice in close reading and writing of the literary analysis

 

·         to give practice in SAT in-class essay

 

·      to teach and review the principles of effective

discourse, including the usage of parts of speech, mood, and mechanics

 

·      to introduce and study styles and themes of the

following authors:  Shakespeare, Homer, Sophocles, Cisneros, Kidd, and poets and short story writers of merit

 

·      to increase vocabulary (with an introduction to the use and value of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED])

 

·      to give the students opportunity for creative writing

    of short stories and/or poems

 

·      to enable students to recognize the various levels of

language (a topic to be more fully and seriously engaged in English II)

 

·      to study and refine understanding of poetic terms

    and other literary devices

 

·      to teach and refine research and documentation skills

(MLA) through literary analyses (and possibly a short research paper)

 

  • to discover and use the library as a tool – both objective and subjective – which will make study, and reading in particular more utilitarian and more joyful

 

  • to increase the use of technology within the classroom

through the use of the computer whenever possible, a task which will likely be implemented in particular during the study of mythology

 

 

  • to integrate the study of mythology with general literary study and more particularly a class wide and self examination of the relationship of myth to the individual psyche

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 

·         The student will study in depth the literary works listed on the syllabus.      

 

·         The student will write at least three literary analyses and approx. six in-class essays on topics generated from the literature and SAT sources.

 

·         Those students who are involved in the Questia experiment will use this site as a tool for research

  and writing

 

·         The student will study vocabulary from the literature

     and from Vocabulary Workshop- Level E.

 

·         The student will be introduced to the library and its uses for at least three days.

 

·         The student will learn usage and mechanics from various supplemental sources provided by the instructor.

 

·         The student will continue to develop and refine

technology skills through the use of the computer

for classroom work whenever possible.