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.10:

Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structures an author uses in an exposition, argument, or narrative, including whether the structure makes points or events clear, effective, convincing, or engaging. (RL & RI)

• An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
  Students use art and poetry to explore and understand major characteristics of the Romantic period.
• Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads
  Students explore the ballads genre by reading medieval ballads to deduce their characteristics, acting out the ballads, comparing medieval and modern ballads using Venn diagrams, and composing their own ballads.
• 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
• LESSON PLAN: Pages | Annotate & Create PSA
  This lesson plan has been created to help students build their annotation skills, close reading skills, and ability to identify and analyze the central idea of a text.  This lesson plan also has been created to build digital annotation skills using the Pages application for iPad.  The overall outcome of this lesson plan is to show students the benefits of annotating a text using a digital tool and then taking the information from a text and applying it to create a Public Service Announcement that will bring awareness to a real-world issue or historical event that has had a large impact on our society.  
• Parallel Structure Quotes
  In this lesson, students will learn about parallel structure and various types of phrases in writing, as well as how to use Adobe Creative Cloud Express to create visually appealing images that incorporate text. Students will apply these skills by creating images that use parallel structure and different types of phrases in their text overlays. The lesson can be done asynchronously or synchronously and in-person or online. It should take approximately 89 minutes. The author of this lesson is Dany Macias. The image is from Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 
• Structure and Detail in "A Long Thin Line"
  This set of lessons extends over a few days. Students read and annotate Ernie Pyle's "A Long Thin Line of Anguish." Students complete a SAYS/DOES graphic organizer, working on summarizing the text, noticing the choices the author makes about use of details, and describing the choices the author makes regarding the structure of the article.Students complete a SOAPStone handout, identifying subject, occasion, author, purpose, speaker and tone (SOAPStone is a pre-AP/AP strategy). Students develop claims about why Ernie Pyle makes the writing choices he makes. Students write an informal, free-response style assessment about the impact of Pyle's choices.

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