One of the outcomes of Grade 9 English Language Arts requires you to read a variety of information texts including expository essays, historical accounts, news articles, and scientific writing. This project will allow you to make choices about what and how you read. This will also help us to practice a second outcome which requires you to use before, during and after reading strategies.

The unit is organized around five focus questions with sample lessons and suggested resources included. (Time allocations given are approximations only. Teachers can choose to spend more or less time on each lesson depending on the needs and interests of their students.)

The following are resources in regards to love, loyalty and relationships .They help provide a deeper understanding, what it means to be loyal, to be in love, etc.

Foundational stories are ways of making sense of life, of examining our past, of understanding our present, and of envisioning our future. Fate and destiny may play a role in our lives. Wherever we go, we meet life’s challenges. As we meet those challenges, we develop the qualities that enable us to grow, and we anticipate other critical challenges we may encounter. Challenges benefit both society and each individual; for without challenges, neither society nor the individual can move forward. Every challenge a society encounters provides opportunities for that society to examine issues, to foster the exchange of ideas, and to explore ways to rise to the challenge. The challenges we encounter lead us to examine our existence and to make decisions that shape our society and ourselves. The world influences us, and we, in turn, influence the world. The following documents include a unit plan for challenges.

In explorations that engage our mind, body, and spirit, we find joy and fulfillment. Life is filled with mysteries from the extraordinary to the common. The human brain, for example, is a fascinating yet mysterious subject. Its endless capabilities, such as storing memories and imagining possibilities within and beyond this world, continue to amaze and confound us. We wonder how memory shapes us, and we speculate on the role of destiny in our lives. Our memories are significant to who we become. For centuries, humans have searched for answers to life’s mysteries; even now, as we explore and ponder these mysteries, we discover and encounter different ways of knowing (natural, traditional, scientific, aesthetic, religious, mystical) or explaining those mysteries. We seek answers from nature, environment, science, faith, traditions, etc. On our quest for answers, we journey into worlds unknown: worlds within, worlds beyond, and worlds remembered.
This unit is divided into four sub-themes:
-The Joys of Mind, Body, and Spirit
-The Mysteries of the Human Brain and Imagination
-Mysteries of this World and Beyond
-The Fantastic

You Speak Canadian, eh! Assignment:
Students work together to come up with their own "Canadianisms" and make a skit.
What is the Canadian Indentity? Assignment.
Students answer questions on what it means to be Canadian, Canadian stereotypes, etc.
Canadian Bacon: A Canadian Film
Canadian Bacon is a comedy that makes fun of the Canadian and American relationship, as well as their culture or better yet our stereotypes. This film was directed by Michael Moore, the same director who created Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9-11.
Purpose of viewing:
-To collect examples that will add to your understanding of what you believe the Canadian Identity to be.
-To identify the intended audience and the message Michael Moore wanted to achieve
-To make personal connections to the film as a Canadian.

Now it is your turn to analyze a poem. The purpose of this assignment is to connect poetry (the written) with photos (the visual). Each student will select one poem from the list and create a power point presentation (or some similar format; prezi etc.) using various photos to highlight the theme(s), content, and context of the poem. Each student will be required to present his/her ideas to the class.

This rubric was created for the final project for an ELA Indigenous and Norse Narratives UBD unit plan. Throughout the unit, the grade nine students read legends to the grade three students (the benefits of being in a K-12 school). As we read through narratives and legends in the class, students began to discover ideas for their own personal narrative or legend. I asked the students to make the legend for a grade two or three reading level. I asked them to do this because we planned on reading the stories to the grade three students. The grade three students were also incorporated in drawing the pictures for the story. This developed the students’ collaboration skills because they needed to be aware of the grade three student’s thoughts and how they learn. This assignment also asked the students to develop their communication skills with the grade three students, as they would need to describe their idea for pictures to the grade three students. Throughout the unit, the students developed their own character because they had to be more aware of their actions and language around grade three students. I believe it helped student’s realize there are younger students within the school who look up to them, even if they are unaware of it.

The following is a list of assignments that deal with either family, friendship or love.

I have been doing expert writing with the older students for a few years now as an independent English Language Arts project while I am working with the younger students. However, I have been disappointed with the variety and creativity in presentations. I give them a list of possible formats and they choose the topic they are interested in researching and how they want to present what they have learned. Only 1 or 2 have been brave enough to deviate from the traditional written report, or poster. My plan was to do a variety of creativity projects from the Destination Imagination series to foster creativity and get them in the right frame of mind before doing their projects. I insisted that they had to choose a format other than a written report, or poster.

Goal: To learn language connected to love, relationships and self

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