Wall High School

English 9 CP

Course Overview

This English course exposes freshmen to various texts and writing modes while honing speaking and listening skills. Students garner and improve upon emerging critical thinking skills required at the secondary level by interacting with and producing a variety of texts around a “coming-of-age” theme. The units in this course alternate between reading-focused and writing-focused units. Reading units include literature, short stories, literary nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Writing units include process pieces in the argument (literary analysis), information (the research paper), and narrative (flash fiction) modes with attention to varying contexts and audiences. Vocabulary and grammar instruction are infused in the units of study.