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Unit 2: Fiction

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Welcome to College Prep English 9
Through their study of writing and reading, English 9 students will explore the choices that they make as they navigate the conflicting push and pull of parents, society, and peers to form their identities. Students will develop strategies and habits that will help them become more proficient at reading multiple genres. Using the texts provided by both literature and their lives, they will become more skilled at writing expository essays, literature-dependent essays, and personal essays.

Class Calendar
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Course Learning Goals
By the end of the school year, students will be able to...
 * 1)  Analyze and explain how characters/people make choices when faced with conflicting loyalties and learn about decision-making by examining the choices characters/people make.
 * 2) Use different reading, writing, speaking, and listening experiences help them to understand more about their identities and explore who they are and who they want to become.
 * 3) Ask questions and apply other close-reading skills that help them to understand and connect to the works they read.
 * 4) Convey ideas in Standard English in speaking and writing.
 * 5) Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words.
 * 6) Revise their work and write pieces that communicate what they really think, feel, and mean.
 * 7) Contribute to the learning of the group, and identify how the group contributes to their individual learning.
 * 8) Develop their writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.
 * 9) Construct and maintain a portfolio to help them document their evolving skills and identity as reader, writers, learners, and people.

Unit 1: Introduction to Lit Analysis

 * Intro to Literature Analysis Unit Page
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Unit 2: Fiction

 * Fiction Unit Page
 * Test Prep Resources

Unit 3: Poetry

 * Poetry Unit Page
 * Test Prep Resources

Unit 4: Drama - //Romeo and Juliet//

 * //Romeo and Juliet// Unit Page
 * Test Prep Resources