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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - GRADE 9 REQUIREMENTS

PORTFOLIO  
First person narrative Creative expression
Open response question Research paper
Descriptive writing End of year portfolio reflection
Literary Analysis:
Characters, theme, plot, setting or genre
 

NOVELS/DRAMA  
Novel Drama
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare

Grammar/Language
The following terms and usage skills must be introduced; however, students are required to know the terminology and use correctly all other grammatical terms and skills listed in the Glossary of Terms:

Adjectival clause Participles
Adverbial clause Parallelism
Jargon Colon
Tone Hyphen
Voice Semi-colon
Syntax Compound/complex sentence
Properly placed modifiers Traditional or Transformational sentence diagramming
Verbals Correct Tense usage
Gerunds Tense consistency
Infinitives Word origin