English 9 SE
EA or AD score on CELDT
Grade: 9
Prerequisites: Score of EA or AD on the CELDT; completion of Intermediate ELD at middle school with a grade of "C" or better..
This college-prep course is designed to engage English Learners in higher-level speaking, writing and listening exercises based largely upon a variety of readings in essays, novels, short stories, and drama. Students will learn about literature through these genres to improve their communication skills in all areas. Student projects will demonstrate their mastery of key literature. The elements of composition (grammar, usage and mechanics) and the conventions of English language are taught through the study of models, text exercises, students' writing and outside reading.
Content Objectives:
- Students will write carefully organized compositions in which their claims and assertions will be supported by factual evidence and convincing examples
- Students will write creatively, discovering and clarifying their own ideas, beliefs and feelings.
- Students will actively respond to a variety of texts through integrated writing, speaking and listening activities.
- Students will gain a greater awareness of the world through their readings, discussions and group dialogues.
- Students will gain improved skills in the mechanics of writing, usage and correct grammar and punctuation.
- Students will add to their social and functional vocabularies.
- Students will practice note-taking skills.
- Students will begin to recognize and develop a sense of "style" in their prose.
- Use prior experiences to understand text or visual media.
- Express initial and tentative interpretations of the literature read in class.
- Provide evidence of understandings of the human conditions exemplified in literature.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about context, events, characters, and setting in literature read in class.
- Analyze and revise his/her own work to further develop the piece of writing, improve meaning, and sharpen its focus by adding or deleting details and explanations.
- Use information from the reading to apply to other settings and purposes to begin to change their own lives.
Adventures in Reading - (Anthology)
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Odyssey - Homer
Impact - (Anthology)
Supplementary Materials:
Farewell to Manzanar - Wakatsuki-Houston
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Somehow Tenderness Survives - (Anthology of South African writers)
Promotion Requirements:
Upon completion of the course and Advanced Composition with a grade of "C" or better; a student may be mainstreamed aftert his course based on teacher recommendation or might need to go to the next level of English SE.