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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT - GRADE 9 REQUIREMENTS
| PORTFOLIO |
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| 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 |
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| NOVELS/DRAMA |
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| 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:
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| 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 |
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