Course Title: 9th Grade English Honors

Course Description:

Students will explore literature from ancient world epics through modern novels, emphasizing the various genres, authors,
cultures, and history surrounding each piece of literature. They will interpret, analyse, evaluate and critique literature. They will
demonstrate their understanding through discussions, presentations and essays. Students must demonstrate mastery of grammar and
usage and will develop their written and spoken vocabularies.

Contents Competencies Progress/

Learning Conceptual Procedural Attitudinal Achievements
Objectives Indicators
1. Understand how The parts of  Identify the part of Acknowledgement  Determine the The students can:
the language grammar: speech in of the importance of level of formality  Use correct
functions in a  Parts of speech paragraphs and English grammar. or register in grammatical
way that the  Parts of sentences. which a word or construction
students will be sentence  Recognize the use Develop reading expression is to be when
able to improve and meaning of confidence, fluency, used summarizing.
reading and A reading each part of speed, and a  Improve the  Infer and predict
writing skills by component, a speech. positive attitude communicative outcomes as a
learning the parts communication  Identify the toward reading. skills and reading strategy
of speech. component, a subject and language to assist
2. Students will writing component, predicate of Help both the proficiency. comprehension.
demonstrate and a research simple sentences student and teacher  Read, summarize  Skilfully integrate
knowledge of component with subject and identify the areas and analyze own all of the traits in
subjects and predicate skills. of writing that the writing and begin writing.
predicates as  6 + 1 Traits of  Inform that student needs work to improve writing
parts of complete Writing prepositional at improving. from critiques
sentences  Review all types phrases or clauses
by correctly of essays may be added to
identifying each  Review outlines, any type of
part, and putting paragraphs, and sentence.
the two parts sentence forms  Read the text with
 together  Review the use of increasing fluency
correctly. titles and accuracy.
3. Aims to help  Apply strategies in
students acquire writing to create a
proficiency in legible
vocabulary and compositions.
use selected
intensive reading
sub-skills and
strategy to
improve reading
speed, and
comprehension
of articles.
4. Analyse the 6+1
traits of writing
and how they can
make writing
easier for the
student.
5.

Time Frame Skills Content Resources Teaching Assessment

Methodology
Week 1  good in writing Parts of Speech Skill Builders for  The teacher will  Grammar
essay  noun English Profiency give students an classwork
 good in oral  pronoun by: Carleen S. in-depth (Summative)
communication  verb Sedilla explanation of a  Homework
 adjective grammatical exercises
concept before
 they encounter the
same grammatical
concept in their
own writing.
 Focus on
instruction before
practice
Week 2  improve reading  adverb Skill Builders for  The teacher will  Grammar
and writing skills  preposition English Profiency present the classwork
 avoid confusion  conjunction by: Carleen S. grammar rule and (Summative)
between adverbs  interjection Sedilla the learner  Homework
and adjectives engages with it exercises
 combine sentences through study and
more effectively manipulation of
 use and write essay examples
Week 3 and 4  subject verb Parts of Sentence Skill Builders for  The teacher will  Grammar
agreement  subject English Profiency begin with the classwork
 formation of  predicate by: Carleen S. basics for writing (Summative)
complete sentences  clause Sedilla sentences.  Homework
 correct use of  phrase  The teacher will exercises
punctuation explain the  Writing
 comma usage meaning of the composition
 composition Skills four parts of
sentence
 The teacher will
give example
sentences and the
students will
analyse.
Week 5 and 6  draw upon a  reading Skill Builders for  The teacher will  Oral reading test
variety of strategies component Efficient Reading tell to the students  Book review
to comprehend,  communication Book that finding  Writing Project
interpret, analyse component enjoyment in
 and evaluate what  writing component everything often
he or she reads.  research comes from
 write for different component looking at the
audiences and details and this
purposes. applies to reading.
 create legible texts.  Monitor the
 recognize, student’s texts
demonstrate and comprehension
analyse the know when they
qualities of read and when
effective they do not.
communication.  Explain that when
the best readers
read, they read
carefully and
absorb all of the
small details that
the author has to
often.
Week 7  apply a process  6 + 1 Traits of 6 + 1 Writing book,  Assess all the  6 + 1 Traits of
approach to writing Writing various handouts, traits in writing. Writing
 write for a variety  Review all types  The teacher will
of purposes of essays focus on the  Essay
 write legible text  Review outlines, individual needs
paragraphs, and of the students.
sentence forms
 Review the use of
titles
Week 8 and 9
Week 10