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Welcome to Honors English 9
Students in Honors English 9 will explore the subject of identity and develop the strategies and habits that will help them become more proficient at reading literary and non-literary genres written in and beyond America. Using the texts provided by both literature and from their own lives, they will become more skilled at writing literature and essays: expository essays, literature dependent essays, and personal memoirs. Students will study texts in depth and be expected to demonstrate high level analytical, organizational, and critical thinking skills.

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: Multi-Genre

 * Multi-Genre Unit Page
 * Test Prep Page

Unit 2: Classical Literature

 * Antigone Unit Page
 * Test Prep Page