Grade+9,+Unit+2

== = = =UNIT 2: THE NOVEL - HONOR= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Is honor inherent or bestowed?= = = =LITERARY PERIOD--= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =NOVELS:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =ESSAYS:=
 * = Romanticism (1828-1870)- Victor Hugo =
 * =Realism (1820-1920)-Steinbeck=
 * =Modernism (1910-1965)- John Steinbeck, John Knowles=
 * =Post-Modernism (1940s-present)- Markus Zusak, Julia Alverez, Terry Spencer Hesser, S.E. Hinton, Paul Zindel, Betty Greene, Laura Lippen, Karen Frisch, Erin Gruwell=
 * =//A Separate Piece// (John Knowles)=
 * =//Battle of Jericho// (Sharon Draper)=
 * =//Cages//=
 * =//Can’t Get There From Here// (Todd Strasser)=
 * =//Color of Water// (James McBride)=
 * =//Great Expectations// (Charles Dickens)=
 * =//The Freedom Writers Diary// (Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers)=
 * =//In the Time of the Butterflies// (Julia Alvarez) (Summer Reading)=
 * =//Julius Caesar// (William Shakespeare)=
 * =//Kissing Doorknobs// (Terry Spencer)=
 * =//Les Miserables// (Victor Hugo)=
 * =//Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck) (core)=
 * =//Rules of the Road// (Joan Bauer)=
 * =//Summer of My German Soldier// (Bette Greene)=
 * =//The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// (Sherman Alexie)=
 * =//The Book Thief// (Markus Zusak) (core) (Summer Reading)=
 * =//The First Part Last// (Angela Johnson)=
 * = //The Outsiders// (SE Hinton) =
 * = //The Pearl// (John Steinbeck) =
 * = //The Pigman// (Paul Zindel) =
 * =//What’s in a Name?// (Ellen Wittlinger)=
 * =//When She Was Good// (Norma Fox Mazer)=
 * = //Whirligig// (Paul Fleischman) =
 * = "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (Alice Walker) (EA) =

=NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC, MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MEDIA (title choices):= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:=
 * =//Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression of 1929 - 1933// (Milton Melzer)=
 * =//Only Yesterday// (excerpts, e.g., chapters XII-XIV) (Frederick Lewis Allen)=
 * = "First Inaugural Address", March 4, 1933" (Franklin D. Roosevelt) =
 * ="America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945" (Library of Congress)=
 * =Selected photographs by Dorothea Lange, taken for the Farm Security Administration (Library of Congress)=
 * =Gary Sinese, dir., //Of Mice and Men// (1992)=
 * =Stuart Burge, dir, //Julius Caesar// (1970)=
 * =Joseph L. Mankiewicz, dir., //Julius Caesar// (1953)=
 * =BBC, //Julius Caesar// (1979)=
 * =Tom Hooper, dir., //Les Misérables// (2012)=
 * =Bille August, dir., //Les Misérables// (1998)=
 * =Alfe Boe, dir., //Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary Concert// (2010)=
 * =Michael Tuchner, dir., //Summer of My German Soldier// (1978)=
 * =//The Pearl//=
 * =//The Outsiders//=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * =The informative/explanatory essay planning worksheet=
 * =Reliable/unreliable narrator essay worksheet=
 * =Verbs: transitive and intransitive (action, linking), helping=
 * =Adjectives: including correct forms of irregular comparative and superlative adjectives; articles; nouns and pronouns used as adjectives; proper and compound adjectives=
 * =Adverbs: of place, time, manner, frequency, manner, duration, degree, reason; adverbs that modify adjectives; adverbs vs. adjectives; regular and irregular comparative and superlative adverbs=
 * =Nothing new in this unit.=

=TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =Antagonist=
 * =Characterization=
 * =Characters: major and minor=
 * =Conflict=
 * =Extended metaphor=
 * =Motif=
 * =Parallel plots=
 * =Protagonist=
 * =Setting=
 * =Theme=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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