English 9

In ninth grade English, students compare fiction and nonfiction texts, with an emphasis on nonfiction. Students make inferences and draw conclusions using explicit and implied textual evidence and use literary terms to analyze a variety of genres. Students use the structural analysis of roots and affixes to analyze complex words. This course engages students in a recursive writing process, with an emphasis on analysis and persuasion. Students gather, analyze, and evaluate information from diverse sources and cite both quoted and paraphrased information. Students analyze and interpret the motives behind media messages. Students use multimodal tools to create presentations both independently and in collaborative groups.