ELA Grades 9-10 Full Year Curriculum 9th & 10th English Yearlong ELA Curriculum

This full year high school ELA curriculum package contains organized daily procedures for 180+ days of rigorous, relevant, and common core aligned secondary English & Language Arts instruction. The lessons and materials included provide students with a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, and pop-culture texts that will allow them to fully appreciate the scope and importance of language arts in relation to reading, writing, listening, and critically viewing the world around them.

Quarter #1: Multicultural Short Stories and Fairy Tales

This full curriculum package contains a free daily calendar (click to download) that organizes over 300 pages of high-quality and rigorous secondary ELA material. Together, these lessons and activities will provide you with everything you need for the first nine weeks of school - from back to school & first week materials to a detailed and engaging multicultural unit, one that features six complete short story units and a separate folklore package focused on Cinderella tales from around the world. Ultimately, these materials will help students front-load knowledge, read with a purpose, analyze text, and participate in meaningful projects that will enhance them as scholars and as human beings.

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Back to School Classroom Management Tool Kit: Presentation, Printables, & MORE!

"Only Human" Homework Pass: The Pass That Teaches A Lesson!

Book Report Project Bundle: Reading Lists, Journal Activity & Projects Included

Back to School Literary Movements Scavenger Hunt: A FREE Web Quest Activity

Mastering the Common Core Informative Essay: 2-Week Writing Workshop Unit

The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

"The Open Window" by Saki: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

Games At Twilight" by Anita Desai: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

"The Little Match Girl" Christmas Story: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

"Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

"Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

An Introduction to Folklore: PPT, Journal Activity, and Quiz Included

Cinderella Tales from Around the World: A Multicultural Unit

Quarter #2: Poetry and Macbeth

This full curriculum package contains a free daily calendar that organizes over 240 pages of high-quality and rigorous ELA material. Together, these materials will provide you with everything you need for an entire quarter focused on Shakespeare and his works. Delve into his sonnets and his famous tragedy, Macbeth - all while exposing students to lesson plans that will help them study Shakespearean language, comprehend and analyze complex text, and engage in collaborative movie projects that will make Shakespeare more relevant to the modern world.

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Shakespeare's Sonnets 73 & 116 Poetry Unit: Close Reading & Analysis Activities

"A History of Witches" Free Web Quest and Reflection Activity

Macbeth Comprehension Bundle: Guided Reading, Summaries, Quizzes, & More!

Introduction to Macbeth by Shakespeare: PPT, Guided Notes, and Language Activities

Macbeth Soliloquies: Reading Annotation and Analysis Activities

Analyzing Macbeth Through Music: Engaging Annotation and Analysis Activities

Modernize A Shakespeare Scene Movie Project: Works with ANY Shakespeare Play!

Common Core Reading Test Prep #1: Editable Assessment & Remediation Materials

Quarter #3: Rhetoric and Argument, Elie Wiesel & MLK

This complete nine-week bundle, with a free daily calendar, represents 21st Century learning at its best! Students will participate in a variety of educational activities that range from analyzing prominent speeches and viewing real-world advertisements to watching and working with iconic movie speeches aimed to motivate and inspire audiences around the globe. Then, when students have mastered how to evaluate rhetorical appeals and devices within smaller texts, they can delve into Martin Luther King's most famous Speeches and Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair, and Memory." Students will also participate in a complete Common Core Argument Essay Workshop that will teach them how to craft their own masterful argument. Finally, students will create and present their own Persuasive Advertisement Project, one that allows them to show their mastery of rhetoric in a relevant and creative format.

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An Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis: PPT, Guided Notes, Practice, & Quiz

Rhetorical Appeals Through Cinema: Engaging Ethos, Pathos, & Logos Activities

Rhetorical Devices Through Cinema: Engaging Rhetoric and Soapstone Activities

Martin Luther King Background Lesson: Web Quest, Writing Activities, and Quiz

Martin Luther King Author Study: Lesson Plans, Handouts, Activities, and Project

Hope, Despair, and Memory by Elie Wiesel: Rhetorical Analysis Activity Pack

Mastering the Common Core Argument Essay: 2-Week Writing Workshop Unit

Argument Essay Editable Checklist: Makes Grading Easy and Efficient!

Persuasive Advertisement Rhetoric Project: Requirements, Rubric, Handouts, and More!

Common Core Reading Test Prep #2: Editable Assessment & Remediation Materials

Quarter #4: Dystopian Short Stories & Fahrenheit 451

This no-prep literary comprehension and analysis quarterly unit of instruction, complete with a free daily calendar (click to download), contains everything you and your students need to fully understand and appreciate Ray Bradbury as a visionary dystopian author. These materials constitute a complete dystopian short story and novel unit, one that includes a variety of relevant and engaging activities that cover almost ALL of the Common Core ELA anchor standards! Not only will students be exposed to classic short stories like "The Pedestrian" and "The Veldt," but they will delve deeply into Bradbury's famous classic, Fahrenheit 451. These activities will lead to meaningful discussions, rigorous analyses, and thoughtful connections to the real world, and will most definitely teach students how to interact with literature like a true literary scholar.

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"An Introduction to Dystopian Literature PPT and Quiz"

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury: Close Reading and Analysis Unit

"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury Close Reading and Analysis Unit"

"The Rocket" by Ray Bradbury Close Reading and Analysis Unit

Fahrenheit 451 FREEBIE: Analyzing Denotation and Connotation Activity

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury Part 1 Discussion: Procedures, Questions, & Handouts

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury Part 2 Discussion: Procedures, Questions, & Handouts

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury Part 3 Discussion: Procedures, Questions, & Handouts

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: Guided Reading Worksheets, Activities, & Quizzes

Characterization in Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 Allusions Bundle: PPT, Activities, and Quiz Included

Analyzing Archetypes in Fahrenheit 451 Activity Set

Analyzing Literature Through Music: A Fahrenheit 451 Novel Study

Fan Fiction Planning Guide: Works With Any Novel!

Free End of Year Student Survey: Collect Meaningful Feedback From Students!

Together, these materials thoroughly cover all of the Common Core Anchor Standards!

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