English 9: Experience, Perspective & Inquiry — Parent teaching plan · 36 weeks
Students study the chapter and unit lessons. Parents use this 36-week timetable to assign units, sustained reading, writing, and assessments. Adjust pacing after checking understanding.
Open chapter and unit lessonsWeek 1 · Reading evidence and establishing a portfolio
Chapter 1 · Close Reading & Literary Analysis
Reading and assignments
Read The Map with a Blank Corner and From Records to Reasons. Begin a daily 20–30-minute reading habit.
Week 2 · Theme, symbols and qualified claims
Chapter 1 · Close Reading & Literary Analysis
Reading and assignments
Reread the story and read Survey. Record recurring references to maps, labels, and boundaries.
Week 3 · Character, perspective and dialogue
Chapter 1 · Close Reading & Literary Analysis
Reading and assignments
Read A Place for the Card. Compare its visitor with the visitor in the story.
Week 4 · Structure, diction and first literary essay
Chapter 1 · Close Reading & Literary Analysis
Reading and assignments
Revisit the story’s order and the poem’s final two lines. Complete Chapter 1 workshop, review, and quiz.
Week 5 · The Time Machine: framing a journey
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Reading and assignments
Read The Time Machine I–III over short sessions. Use the local sixteen-chapter edition.
Week 6 · The Time Machine: first explanations and contradictions
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Reading and assignments
Read IV–VI. Reread Survey as a comparison about interpreting unfamiliar places.
Week 7 · The Time Machine: competing social explanations
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Reading and assignments
Read VII–IX. Focus on how hypotheses arise from limited observations.
Week 8 · The Time Machine: artifacts, action and consequence
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Reading and assignments
Read X–XIII. Trace the palace, fire, Weena’s loss, and the trap.
Week 9 · The Time Machine: ending, uncertainty and meaning
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
Reading and assignments
Read XIV–XVI and the Epilogue; this completes the supplied edition.
Week 10 · Comparing forms and completing the book portfolio
Chapter 2 · Poetry, Drama & Longer Reading
- Unit 2.1 · Reading Poetry: Image, Sound & Form
- Unit 2.2 · Drama, Performance & Subtext
- Unit 2.3 · Reading a Complete Book
Reading and assignments
Finish the Time Machine essay and the Chapter 2 workshop; use short selections for cross-form comparison.
Week 11 · Historical nonfiction and dramatic openings
Chapter 3 · Informational Reading & Media
Reading and assignments
Read Thoreau’s opening through conscience and majority rule; read Romeo and Juliet Prologue and I.1–I.3.
Week 12 · Text organization, analogy and figurative language
Chapter 3 · Informational Reading & Media
Reading and assignments
Continue Thoreau through slavery, war, and participation; read Romeo I.4–I.5 and II.1–II.2.
Week 13 · Testimony, credibility and mediated messages
Chapter 3 · Informational Reading & Media
Reading and assignments
Read Thoreau’s jail account; read Romeo II.3–II.6; revisit the archive source packet.
Week 14 · Information synthesis and a tragic turning point
Chapter 3 · Informational Reading & Media
Reading and assignments
Finish Thoreau; read Romeo III.1–III.2. Complete Chapter 3 workshop, review, and quiz.
Week 15 · Claims, reasons and consequential advice
Chapter 4 · Argument & Rhetoric
Reading and assignments
Read Romeo III.3–III.5. Begin an argument about responsible public labels using the source packet.
Week 16 · Rhetorical appeals, audience and dramatic irony
Chapter 4 · Argument & Rhetoric
Reading and assignments
Read Romeo Act IV; compare rhetorical appeals in a short Thoreau passage and the archive packet.
Week 17 · Counterclaims, causation and the end of the play
Chapter 4 · Argument & Rhetoric
Reading and assignments
Read Romeo Act V; develop and answer a serious counterclaim to your policy argument.
Week 18 · Argument, performance and quarter-two portfolio
Chapter 4 · Argument & Rhetoric
- Unit 4.2 · Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos & Logos
- Unit 4.3 · Rhetorical & Literary Devices
- Unit 4.4 · Writing a Strong Argument
Reading and assignments
Finish the play interpretation and policy argument. Complete Chapter 4 workshop, review, and quiz.
Week 19 · Midterm, corrections and a new inquiry
Chapter 4 · Argument & Rhetoric
Reading and assignments
Use the Midterm Exam covering Chapters 1–4. Do not use the separate sample or final paper.
Week 20 · Research questions and the epic’s opening
Chapter 5 · Research & Source-Based Writing
Reading and assignments
Read Odyssey Books I–II; begin a research proposal tied to an interpretive question.
Week 21 · Source credibility and accounts of the past
Chapter 5 · Research & Source-Based Writing
Reading and assignments
Read Books III–IV. Find two verifiable contextual sources or evaluate two candidate sources.
Week 22 · Citation, paraphrase and strategic speech
Chapter 5 · Research & Source-Based Writing
Reading and assignments
Read Books V–VI. Build a source notebook with exact quotations and genuinely rewritten paraphrases.
Week 23 · Synthesis and research drafting
Chapter 5 · Research & Source-Based Writing
Reading and assignments
Read Books VII–VIII. Draft the research essay with an evidence matrix and a qualified thesis.
Week 24 · Narrative choices, cunning and consequence
Chapter 6 · Narrative, Memoir & Revision
Reading and assignments
Read Books IX–X. Start a fictional narrative or an honestly framed memoir about a consequential choice.
Week 25 · Dialogue, sensory detail and warnings
Chapter 6 · Narrative, Memoir & Revision
Reading and assignments
Read Books XI–XII. Develop narrative dialogue and a scene where knowledge does not remove difficulty.
Week 26 · Structure, disguise and ethical memoir
Chapter 6 · Narrative, Memoir & Revision
Reading and assignments
Read Books XIII–XIV. Revise the narrative’s order and clarify what is known, remembered, or invented.
Week 27 · Narrative portfolio and developing protagonists
Chapter 6 · Narrative, Memoir & Revision
Reading and assignments
Read Books XV–XVI. Finish the narrative or memoir and Chapter 6 assessments.
Week 28 · Syntax, emphasis and the disguised visitor
Chapter 7 · Language, Style & Conventions
Reading and assignments
Read Books XVII–XVIII. Begin an editing log from your own research and narrative drafts.
Week 29 · Punctuation, parallelism and uneven knowledge
Chapter 7 · Language, Style & Conventions
Reading and assignments
Read Books XIX–XX. Continue the editing log and analyze delayed recognition.
Week 30 · Diction, register and judgment in the epic
Chapter 7 · Language, Style & Conventions
Reading and assignments
Read Books XXI–XXII. Examine how language frames authority, violence, and judgment.
Week 31 · Vocabulary, recognition and year-long editing portfolio
Chapter 7 · Language, Style & Conventions
Reading and assignments
Read Books XXIII–XXIV; complete the epic. Finish Chapter 7 workshop, review, and quiz.
Week 32 · Preparing a text-based seminar
Chapter 8 · Epic Comparison, Discussion & Presentation
Reading and assignments
Prepare discussion on how individuals learn to judge incomplete information across the three long works.
Week 33 · Presentation, sources and visual integrity
Chapter 8 · Epic Comparison, Discussion & Presentation
Reading and assignments
Turn the research or comparative essay into a four-minute presentation for a defined audience.
Week 34 · Final presentation and cumulative writing portfolio
Chapter 8 · Epic Comparison, Discussion & Presentation
Reading and assignments
Deliver the presentation and complete Chapter 8 workshop, review, and quiz. Assemble the year’s writing.
Week 35 · Sample exam and targeted re-teaching
Chapter 8 · Epic Comparison, Discussion & Presentation
Reading and assignments
Use the distinct Sample Exam as rehearsal; keep the Final Exam unseen until Week 36.
Week 36 · Final exam and year-end conference
Chapter 8 · Epic Comparison, Discussion & Presentation
Reading and assignments
Take the Final Exam, then complete the year-end reading, writing, and speaking conference.