ENGLSIH 9

            Course Description:

This course provides an academic atmosphere that expands students’ reading and writing experiences through building the foundation for their middle school academic careers. The course will allow students to improve their reading, writing, and communication skills through various effective strategies found in the common instructional framework including persuasive talk, collaborative group work, writing to learn, literacy groups, questioning, and scaffolding. Students will encounter various genres of literary and informational texts and several styles of writing, with a particular common core emphasis placed on nonfiction texts as well as local stories writing. Students will also be encouraged and expected to integrate technology into several project-based learning activities in order to practice solving real world problems. These projects and the course as a whole will allow students to showcase their communication and critical thinking skills.

I. Objectives

At the end of the first quarter, the students are expected to:

At the end of the first quarter, the students are expected to

1. Understanding Sonnets
2. Analyzing character
3. Understanding Short Stories Through their Elements
4. The Guide to Reading Visual Texts and Advertisement
5. Analyzing Propaganda Techniques

Content

• A. Reading/Viewing/Vocabulary

1. Understanding Sonnets
2. Analyzing character
3. Understanding Short Stories Through their Elements
4. The Guide to Reading Visual Texts and Advertisement
5. Analyzing Propaganda Techniques

• B. Speaking/Listening

1. Delivering a Speech
2. Delivering Oration
3. Listen to get important information from argumentative/ persuasive texts.
4. Draw conclusions based on the text listened to.
5. Language and Style
6. Quick and Easy Tips for an Effective Speech Rate
7. Strengthening your Voice
8. Managing Tone, Pitch, Volume, and Rate

• C. Language/Writing

1. Cohesive Devices
2. Literary Devices
3. Modals in Polite Expression
4. Parallelism
5. Correct Misplaced
6. Compose forms of literary writing.

• D. Performance Assessment

1. Essay
2. Readers Theater
3. Oration
4. Delivering a Speech
5. Online Debate

• E. Selection

1. Shakespearean Sonnet
2. Petrarchan Sonnet
3. Of Parents and Children
4. Araby
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Regret

Criteria for Criteria

Prepared by:

MS. TEDDIE MEA L. GUSTAMAN

Subject Teacher

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