{ "course": "English 9 — National Language Arts", "version": "1.0.0", "weeks": 36, "units": [ { "n": 1, "title": "Foundations of Scholarly Reading & Writing", "short": "Scholarly Foundations", "term": "Term I", "weeks": [ 1, 2, 3 ], "question": "How do careful readers turn observations into defensible ideas?", "summary": "Establish annotation, inference, paragraph architecture, grammar control, academic integrity, and productive revision habits.", "texts": "Original course texts, short public-domain essays, selected speeches, and teacher-approved informational passages.", "assessment": "Evidence-based analytical paragraph, revised diagnostic essay, and language conventions check.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.1–2", "RI.9-10.1–2", "W.9-10.4–5", "L.9-10.1–2", "SL.9-10.1" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "KhaeClean", "ARSHIF" ] }, { "n": 2, "title": "Myth, Epic & Archetype", "short": "Myth and Epic", "term": "Term I", "weeks": [ 4, 5, 6 ], "question": "How do cultures use stories to explain duty, identity, power, and the unknown?", "summary": "Compare origin stories, heroic patterns, archetypes, cultural values, and transformations of source material across civilizations.", "texts": "The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Popol Vuh, and teacher-selected passages from African, Asian, Indigenous, and Near Eastern traditions.", "assessment": "Comparative literary analysis with a visual archetype map.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.2–7", "W.9-10.2", "W.9-10.9", "SL.9-10.4", "L.9-10.4–6" ], "tools": [ "ARSHIF", "PROSE", "Bazaar Art" ] }, { "n": 3, "title": "Short Fiction & Narrative Craft", "short": "Narrative Craft", "term": "Term I", "weeks": [ 7, 8, 9 ], "question": "How do writers shape a reader’s experience through character, structure, perspective, and detail?", "summary": "Study character, conflict, setting, point of view, irony, pacing, dialogue, and the deliberate revision of original fiction.", "texts": "Public-domain short fiction by writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, Rabindranath Tagore, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.", "assessment": "Polished short story with craft commentary and peer-review record.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.3–6", "W.9-10.3–5", "SL.9-10.1", "L.9-10.1–3" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "Voice Proofing", "Bazaar Art" ] }, { "n": 4, "title": "Poetry, Voice & Form", "short": "Poetry and Voice", "term": "Term II", "weeks": [ 10, 11, 12 ], "question": "How can compressed language carry sound, image, argument, memory, and emotion?", "summary": "Analyze imagery, diction, figurative language, rhythm, meter, form, translation, and performance while composing an original portfolio.", "texts": "Public-domain poetry by Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Dunbar, Bashō, Li Bai in approved translation, and other global poets.", "assessment": "Four-poem portfolio, comparative analysis, and formal oral reading.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.4–7", "W.9-10.3–5", "SL.9-10.4–6", "L.9-10.3–5" ], "tools": [ "ARSHIF", "PROSE", "The Refrain" ] }, { "n": 5, "title": "Drama, Choice & Consequence", "short": "Drama and Consequence", "term": "Term II", "weeks": [ 13, 14, 15 ], "question": "How does drama place competing duties, values, and consequences into public view?", "summary": "Read drama as literature and performance, examining dramatic structure, stagecraft, character motivation, conflict, and interpretation.", "texts": "Sophocles’ Antigone or Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with shorter scenes from world drama.", "assessment": "Literary analysis, Socratic seminar, and staged interpretation.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.2–7", "W.9-10.1–2", "SL.9-10.1–6", "L.9-10.3" ], "tools": [ "ARSHIF", "PROSE", "Bazaar Art" ] }, { "n": 6, "title": "Rhetoric & Public Voice", "short": "Rhetoric and Speech", "term": "Term II", "weeks": [ 16, 17, 18 ], "question": "How do speakers use language, evidence, structure, and delivery to move an audience?", "summary": "Introduce rhetorical situation, ethos, pathos, logos, claims, reasoning, fallacies, style, speech writing, and purposeful delivery.", "texts": "Public-domain speeches and essays by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and other civic voices.", "assessment": "Four-to-six-minute evidence-based speech with rhetorical analysis.", "standards": [ "RI.9-10.4–8", "W.9-10.1", "SL.9-10.2–6", "L.9-10.3–6" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "Evidence Studio", "Voice Proofing" ] }, { "n": 7, "title": "Research, Evidence & Media Literacy", "short": "Research and Media", "term": "Term III", "weeks": [ 19, 20, 21 ], "question": "How can researchers find, test, connect, and ethically present reliable information?", "summary": "Build research questions, advanced search plans, lateral-reading habits, source evaluations, annotations, citations, and synthesized reports.", "texts": "Current and historical informational sources selected through The Verifier, PLERA Search, ARSHIF, and public archives.", "assessment": "Annotated bibliography, source audit, and 900–1,200-word research report.", "standards": [ "RI.9-10.1–9", "W.9-10.7–9", "SL.9-10.2", "L.9-10.6" ], "tools": [ "Evidence Studio", "The Verifier", "PLERA Search" ] }, { "n": 8, "title": "Informational & Technical Communication", "short": "Informational Writing", "term": "Term III", "weeks": [ 22, 23, 24 ], "question": "How do writers make complex processes and ideas accurate, usable, and clear?", "summary": "Study explanatory structures, definitions, classification, cause and effect, technical procedures, data displays, captions, and visual rhetoric.", "texts": "Science, environment, health, technology, and public-information texts drawn from the Verve N Veda learning network.", "assessment": "Explanatory article, tested procedure, and accessible infographic.", "standards": [ "RI.9-10.2–7", "W.9-10.2", "WHST.9-10.2", "SL.9-10.5", "L.9-10.1–3" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "Bazaar Art", "KhaeClean" ] }, { "n": 9, "title": "The Novel & Sustained Inquiry", "short": "Novel Study", "term": "Term III", "weeks": [ 25, 26, 27 ], "question": "What becomes visible when a reader follows characters, patterns, and ideas across an entire book?", "summary": "Sustain independent reading, track motifs and character arcs, build contextual knowledge, compare interpretations, and write a developed analysis.", "texts": "One teacher-approved full novel, with public-domain choices including Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, The Time Machine, or The Call of the Wild.", "assessment": "1,200–1,500-word literary analysis and independent reading conference.", "standards": [ "RL.9-10.1–10", "W.9-10.2,4–5,9", "SL.9-10.1,4", "L.9-10.4–6" ], "tools": [ "ARSHIF", "PROSE", "Portfolio" ] }, { "n": 10, "title": "Argument, Debate & Civic Reasoning", "short": "Argument and Debate", "term": "Term IV", "weeks": [ 28, 29, 30 ], "question": "What makes an argument fair, rigorous, responsive, and persuasive?", "summary": "Frame issues, distinguish claims from assumptions, test evidence, address counterclaims, rebut respectfully, debate, and revise position papers.", "texts": "Paired arguments, policy excerpts, civic documents, editorials, and evidence sets selected for balance and source transparency.", "assessment": "1,200–1,600-word position paper and structured debate.", "standards": [ "RI.9-10.1,5–9", "W.9-10.1,7–9", "SL.9-10.1–4", "L.9-10.3–6" ], "tools": [ "The Verifier", "Evidence Studio", "PROSE" ] }, { "n": 11, "title": "Creative Media & Publication", "short": "Publication Studio", "term": "Term IV", "weeks": [ 31, 32, 33 ], "question": "How do words, images, sound, layout, and sequence work together for a real audience?", "summary": "Plan a publication, study visual rhetoric and editorial design, revise collaboratively, credit sources, and produce a literary magazine or exhibit.", "texts": "Student-selected mentor texts, visual essays, poems, short nonfiction, art criticism, and multimedia compositions.", "assessment": "Curated literary magazine, digital exhibit, or themed publication with editorial statement.", "standards": [ "W.9-10.3–6", "SL.9-10.2,4–6", "L.9-10.1–3", "NCTE 6,8,11,12" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "Bazaar Art", "Bazaar Art Live" ] }, { "n": 12, "title": "Capstone Portfolio & Oral Defense", "short": "Capstone and Defense", "term": "Term IV", "weeks": [ 34, 35, 36 ], "question": "How can a student demonstrate growth, judgment, independence, and a distinctive command of language?", "summary": "Curate a standards-based portfolio, revise major works, complete a synthesis capstone, sit for a cumulative examination, and defend learning orally.", "texts": "The student’s complete body of Grade 9 work, selected mentor texts, research sources, and reflective evidence.", "assessment": "Portfolio, synthesis capstone, cumulative final examination, and oral defense.", "standards": [ "All Grade 9–10 ELA strands", "NCTE 1–12", "ACT college-readiness stretch skills" ], "tools": [ "PROSE", "Evidence Studio", "Portfolio" ] } ], "weekPlans": [ { "n": 1, "unit": 1, "title": "Diagnostic Reading & Writer Identity", "question": "What do my present reading and writing habits reveal?", "reading": "Original diagnostic passage and a personal literacy inventory.", "writing": "Write a controlled baseline essay and identify one measurable growth goal.", "grammar": "sentence boundaries and paragraph unity", "vocab": [ "annotation", "inference", "thesis", "evidence", "revision" ], "product": "Revised diagnostic essay with self-assessment." }, { "n": 2, "unit": 1, "title": "Close Reading, Claims & Evidence", "question": "How does a reader move from detail to inference?", "reading": "Short literary and informational passages with layered details.", "writing": "Build claim-evidence-reasoning paragraphs with precise quotations.", "grammar": "subjects, predicates, phrases, and clauses", "vocab": [ "claim", "inference", "context", "warrant", "connotation", "precision" ], "product": "Two polished evidence paragraphs and an annotation sample." }, { "n": 3, "unit": 1, "title": "Revision, Style & Academic Integrity", "question": "What changes make writing clearer, stronger, and more trustworthy?", "reading": "Before-and-after drafts, paraphrases, summaries, and source notes.", "writing": "Revise for focus, coherence, sentence variety, attribution, and citation.", "grammar": "fragments, run-ons, comma splices, coordination", "vocab": [ "paraphrase", "summary", "plagiarism", "attribution", "coherence", "syntax" ], "product": "Unit 1 mastery task and conventions check." }, { "n": 4, "unit": 2, "title": "Why Humans Make Myths", "question": "What work does myth perform in a culture?", "reading": "Creation, flood, trickster, and transformation narratives from several traditions.", "writing": "Explain how a myth encodes values through pattern and symbol.", "grammar": "pronoun reference and agreement", "vocab": [ "archetype", "cosmology", "motif", "symbol", "oral tradition", "worldview" ], "product": "Cultural-function analysis paragraph and archetype chart." }, { "n": 5, "unit": 2, "title": "Epic Heroes & Cultural Values", "question": "How does an epic hero embody and challenge communal ideals?", "reading": "Episodes from Gilgamesh and The Odyssey with contextual notes.", "writing": "Compare heroic traits, tests, consequences, and cultural expectations.", "grammar": "verb tense consistency and active voice", "vocab": [ "epic", "invocation", "epithet", "hubris", "quest", "hospitality" ], "product": "Comparative evidence matrix and timed analysis." }, { "n": 6, "unit": 2, "title": "Comparative Myth Synthesis", "question": "How can two traditions illuminate one another without being flattened into sameness?", "reading": "Paired myths with attention to historical and cultural context.", "writing": "Write a comparative thesis and organize evidence by meaningful criteria.", "grammar": "parallel structure and comparison signals", "vocab": [ "synthesis", "transformation", "allusion", "context", "nuance", "universality" ], "product": "Comparative literary essay and visual archetype map." }, { "n": 7, "unit": 3, "title": "Character, Conflict & Setting", "question": "How do setting and conflict pressure a character into revealing values?", "reading": "Public-domain short fiction with contrasting settings and conflicts.", "writing": "Analyze direct and indirect characterization; draft a scene with a decisive turn.", "grammar": "modifiers and precise verb choice", "vocab": [ "protagonist", "antagonist", "motivation", "conflict", "atmosphere", "characterization" ], "product": "Character analysis and original scene." }, { "n": 8, "unit": 3, "title": "Point of View, Structure & Irony", "question": "How does the arrangement of information shape a reader’s judgment?", "reading": "Stories using first person, limited third person, frames, and irony.", "writing": "Explain the effects of perspective and restructure a scene from another viewpoint.", "grammar": "pronoun case and shifts in person", "vocab": [ "narrator", "reliability", "irony", "foreshadowing", "pacing", "frame" ], "product": "Perspective analysis and rewritten scene." }, { "n": 9, "unit": 3, "title": "Narrative Workshop", "question": "What makes a short story purposeful rather than merely eventful?", "reading": "Mentor openings, dialogue passages, endings, and revision models.", "writing": "Draft, conference, revise, proofread, and annotate an original short story.", "grammar": "dialogue punctuation and sentence rhythm", "vocab": [ "scene", "exposition", "climax", "denouement", "subtext", "revision" ], "product": "Polished short story with craft commentary." }, { "n": 10, "unit": 4, "title": "Image, Diction & Figurative Language", "question": "How does a poet make an idea sensuous and memorable?", "reading": "Short lyric poems across periods and cultures.", "writing": "Analyze word choice and imagery; write image-rich free verse.", "grammar": "denotation, connotation, and word families", "vocab": [ "imagery", "metaphor", "simile", "personification", "diction", "tone" ], "product": "Close-reading annotation and two original poems." }, { "n": 11, "unit": 4, "title": "Sound, Rhythm & Form", "question": "How do sound and structure create expectation and emphasis?", "reading": "Sonnets, ballads, odes, haiku, blank verse, and free verse.", "writing": "Scan selected lines and experiment with a received form.", "grammar": "syntax for emphasis and purposeful inversion", "vocab": [ "meter", "rhyme", "stanza", "caesura", "enjambment", "volta" ], "product": "Formal poem and craft explanation." }, { "n": 12, "unit": 4, "title": "Comparison, Translation & Performance", "question": "What is gained, changed, or contested when poetry is translated and performed?", "reading": "Paired translations and recorded or live readings.", "writing": "Compare translations and prepare an expressive oral interpretation.", "grammar": "punctuation as a guide to voice and pace", "vocab": [ "translation", "speaker", "persona", "cadence", "ambiguity", "interpretation" ], "product": "Poetry portfolio, comparison, and oral reading." }, { "n": 13, "unit": 5, "title": "Reading Drama as Literature and Performance", "question": "How does a play communicate through words, bodies, space, and silence?", "reading": "Opening scenes, stage directions, and performance choices.", "writing": "Annotate a scene for conflict, blocking, subtext, and audience knowledge.", "grammar": "verbals and concise stage directions", "vocab": [ "scene", "act", "stage direction", "soliloquy", "aside", "dramatic irony" ], "product": "Director’s notebook and scene analysis." }, { "n": 14, "unit": 5, "title": "Duty, Power & Consequence", "question": "When obligations conflict, how should a person decide?", "reading": "A sustained reading of Antigone or Julius Caesar.", "writing": "Trace a character’s reasoning and evaluate competing claims using the text.", "grammar": "subordination and logical relationships", "vocab": [ "tragedy", "catharsis", "reversal", "recognition", "rhetoric", "consequence" ], "product": "Character-argument map and literary analysis draft." }, { "n": 15, "unit": 5, "title": "Seminar & Dramatic Interpretation", "question": "How can interpretation remain creative while accountable to evidence?", "reading": "Critical questions, alternate stagings, and key scenes.", "writing": "Revise analysis, participate in seminar, and stage a scene with rationale.", "grammar": "formal register and discussion moves", "vocab": [ "interpretation", "staging", "blocking", "seminar", "counterreading", "evidence" ], "product": "Final drama essay, seminar, and performance." }, { "n": 16, "unit": 6, "title": "The Rhetorical Situation", "question": "How do audience, purpose, context, and occasion shape a message?", "reading": "Public-domain speeches, letters, and essays.", "writing": "Identify rhetorical situations and imitate one effective strategy for a new audience.", "grammar": "sentence types and emphasis", "vocab": [ "rhetoric", "audience", "purpose", "exigence", "ethos", "pathos", "logos" ], "product": "Rhetorical précis and imitation paragraph." }, { "n": 17, "unit": 6, "title": "Reasoning, Evidence & Fallacies", "question": "How can a reader test whether persuasion is responsible and sound?", "reading": "Arguments with strong and weak reasoning.", "writing": "Map claims, evidence, assumptions, counterclaims, and common fallacies.", "grammar": "transitions that signal reasoning", "vocab": [ "premise", "warrant", "fallacy", "concession", "rebuttal", "qualification" ], "product": "Argument map and fallacy correction task." }, { "n": 18, "unit": 6, "title": "Speech Writing & Delivery", "question": "How does a writer compose language meant to be heard once?", "reading": "Model openings, repetitions, transitions, evidence, and conclusions.", "writing": "Draft, rehearse, revise, and deliver an evidence-based speech.", "grammar": "parallelism, repetition, and cadence", "vocab": [ "anaphora", "antithesis", "cadence", "delivery", "emphasis", "gesture" ], "product": "Four-to-six-minute speech and rhetorical reflection." }, { "n": 19, "unit": 7, "title": "Research Questions & Search Strategy", "question": "What makes a research question focused, significant, and answerable?", "reading": "Background sources, reference entries, and search-result sets.", "writing": "Move from topic to inquiry; build keyword, synonym, and source-type plans.", "grammar": "question formation and precise nouns", "vocab": [ "inquiry", "scope", "keyword", "primary source", "secondary source", "database" ], "product": "Research proposal and search log." }, { "n": 20, "unit": 7, "title": "Credibility, Bias & Lateral Reading", "question": "How can a researcher investigate a source instead of merely reading it?", "reading": "Web pages, articles, data displays, and source histories.", "writing": "Verify authorship, funding, evidence, date, context, and corroboration.", "grammar": "hedging, certainty, and responsible attribution", "vocab": [ "credibility", "bias", "corroboration", "provenance", "currency", "expertise" ], "product": "Three-source credibility audit." }, { "n": 21, "unit": 7, "title": "Synthesis, Citation & Research Reporting", "question": "How do researchers create a new understanding from multiple sources?", "reading": "Source clusters representing complementary and conflicting evidence.", "writing": "Integrate summary, paraphrase, quotation, citation, and analysis.", "grammar": "embedding quotations and avoiding dangling quotations", "vocab": [ "synthesis", "citation", "bibliography", "paraphrase", "integration", "plagiarism" ], "product": "Annotated bibliography and mini research report." }, { "n": 22, "unit": 8, "title": "Structures of Explanation", "question": "Which structure best helps a reader understand a complex idea?", "reading": "Definition, classification, sequence, comparison, and cause-effect texts.", "writing": "Plan and draft an explanation using headings, examples, and purposeful structure.", "grammar": "consistent list structure and headings", "vocab": [ "classification", "sequence", "causation", "analogy", "definition", "coherence" ], "product": "Explanatory article outline and first draft." }, { "n": 23, "unit": 8, "title": "Technical Reading & Procedural Writing", "question": "How can a writer make a process accurate, safe, and reproducible?", "reading": "Instructions, diagrams, specifications, safety notes, and troubleshooting guides.", "writing": "Write a procedure, test it with a user, record failures, and revise.", "grammar": "imperative mood, conditionals, and precise modifiers", "vocab": [ "procedure", "specification", "variable", "constraint", "troubleshooting", "usability" ], "product": "Tested procedure with revision log." }, { "n": 24, "unit": 8, "title": "Data, Visuals & Accessible Information", "question": "How should words and visuals divide the work of explanation?", "reading": "Charts, captions, infographics, diagrams, and accessible design examples.", "writing": "Integrate verified data, captions, alt text, visual hierarchy, and source credit.", "grammar": "numbers, units, captions, and consistent terminology", "vocab": [ "visual rhetoric", "hierarchy", "caption", "alt text", "accessibility", "attribution" ], "product": "Final explanatory article and infographic." }, { "n": 25, "unit": 9, "title": "Launching a Sustained Novel Study", "question": "How can readers maintain attention, questions, and evidence across a long text?", "reading": "Opening chapters, context sources, and a full-book reading calendar.", "writing": "Establish a reading notebook and develop questions that can grow over time.", "grammar": "vocabulary in context and morphology", "vocab": [ "motif", "context", "annotation", "chronology", "pattern", "hypothesis" ], "product": "Reading plan, context note, and first conference." }, { "n": 26, "unit": 9, "title": "Character Arcs, Motifs & Themes", "question": "How do repeated details gather meaning across a novel?", "reading": "Middle sections of the selected novel and related context.", "writing": "Track changes, patterns, contradictions, and competing interpretations.", "grammar": "sentence combining for analytical flow", "vocab": [ "arc", "motif", "foil", "theme", "tension", "complexity" ], "product": "Pattern tracker and analytical notebook entry." }, { "n": 27, "unit": 9, "title": "Critical Perspectives & Literary Analysis", "question": "How can a critical lens clarify a text without replacing the text?", "reading": "Final chapters, reviews, and short contextual perspectives.", "writing": "Develop, draft, conference, and revise a sustained literary argument.", "grammar": "cohesion, transitions, and precise analytical verbs", "vocab": [ "lens", "interpretation", "context", "thesis", "counterreading", "synthesis" ], "product": "Literary analysis and reading conference." }, { "n": 28, "unit": 10, "title": "Issue Framing & Counterclaims", "question": "How does the way an issue is framed influence possible conclusions?", "reading": "Balanced issue sets with definitions, histories, and stakeholder views.", "writing": "Define terms, narrow a claim, identify stakeholders, and represent opposition fairly.", "grammar": "qualifiers and modal verbs", "vocab": [ "stakeholder", "framing", "claim", "counterclaim", "qualification", "common ground" ], "product": "Issue brief and provisional thesis." }, { "n": 29, "unit": 10, "title": "Evidence, Rebuttal & Ethical Persuasion", "question": "What evidence is sufficient, relevant, representative, and ethically used?", "reading": "Data, testimony, cases, expert analysis, and competing arguments.", "writing": "Select evidence, explain warrants, concede limits, and rebut responsibly.", "grammar": "logical transitions and paragraph sequencing", "vocab": [ "relevance", "sufficiency", "representativeness", "concession", "rebuttal", "ethics" ], "product": "Evidence dossier and argument draft." }, { "n": 30, "unit": 10, 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