English Language Arts Grades 9-10 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (9-10.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 9-10.R.5:

Cite relevant textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as what inferences can be drawn from the text, including identifying where the text implies ambiguity. (RL & RI)

• Analyzing Informational Text
  Students use the Informational Text Analysis Tool to deconstruct the essential elements of informational text.
• Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama
  In this alternative to the traditional book report, students respond to a play they have read by creating a resume for one of its characters.
• Character Analysis and The Crucible
  This set of lessons extends over several weeks and incorporates all acts of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. Students will closely read The Crucible. Students will cite textual evidence and make interpretations about character development.Students will combine the textual evidence with their interpretations and write interpretive statements. In the culminating activity, students will write a character analysis.
• Classical Appeals Analysis (Churchill/Roosevelt)
   A set of lessons teaching classical appeals strategies (ethos, pathos, logos) and their use. Utilizes exemplar speeches by President Roosevelt ("Day of Infamy," December 8, 1941) and Sir Winston Churchill ("Be Ye Men of Valour" May 13, 1940).Image credit: © National Archives
• Cornell Notes
  Students use the Cornell notes tool (developed by Walter Pauk from Cornell University) to do close reading of informational text.
• Does Science Fiction Predict the Future? Inquiry Based Media Literacy Unit
  Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions: Essential Question: How can we use science fiction?s ability to predict the future to help humanity? Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic. Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality? Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes? (Thumbnail is a screenshot of the OER Commons lesson page, taken 7/26/2022 by Christina Nelson.)
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
  Students will engage with primary source documents to explore the reasons behind memorializing people in public art. Students will craft written or oral statements to support an argument in favor of installing a statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, Philo T. Farnsworth, or Brigham Young in National Statuary Hall.
• Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination: "Leap, Plashless"
  Emily Dickinson's poetry often reveals a child-like fascination with the natural world. She writes perceptively of butterflies, birds, and bats and uses lucid metaphors to describe the sky and the sea.
• How the Sego Lilly Became Utah's State Flower: Examining Primary Sources
  In this lesson, students will examine, compare and synthesize information from primary sources to determine when, how and why the sego lily became Utah?s state flower.
• Listening Guide: Chatbots are supercharging search: Are we ready?
  Our guest on this episode is Will Knight, senior writer about artificial intelligence at Wired magazine. We discuss how ChatGPT is being applied to search and what some of the potential and pitfalls are of this new class of technology known as ?generative AI.?
• Listening Guide: Flagrant foul: Misinformation and sports
  In today?s episode of our podcast Is that a fact?, guest host Jake Lloyd digs into how misinformation manifests in the sports world with author and journalist Jemele Hill, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and host of the Spotify podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered. Hill discusses not only how sports falsehoods spread, but also how the nature of sports reporting makes it more resistant to manipulation than news coverage.
• Listening Guide: Opinion creep: How facts lost ground in the battle for our attention
  Have you ever scratched your head when reading an article or watching the news and wondered if you were getting facts or opinion? If so, you?re not alone. News organizations have not made it easy for consumers to differentiate between news and the views of an individual or media outlet.
• Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
  Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.
• What is Media trying to tell me?
  Through watching several examples of commercials, campaign ads, TED talks, sports videos, instructional videos, and mini-documentaries, students will learn how to determine the audience, purpose, misconceptions, and level of influence various forms of media has.

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