9th ELA

Advanced Learners Extensions

Teachers will select two extensions and one supplemental activity for each unit. The activities may be selected from this list of ideas or may be teacher produced. If teachers have additional ideas they would like to add to this list of extensions and supplemental please contact the 9th grade ELA Lead.

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts

1. Dystopian texts as an outside reading 2. Biographies of individuals regarded as heroic or who have done something honorable

Extended Learning Activity

1. Author Study 2. Presentations providing contextual information about novel

3. Topic Study: each student picks an image, character, theme, etc from the book and write a short one page analysis paper. In the end the compile all the student papers into one book that can be used as “Class SparkNotes”.

Research and Inquiry Integration

1. Research an individual regarded as heroic

Project Based Learning Question

1. PSA 2. Google Lit Trip

Outside Project

Supplemental Assignments

1. Find guest speakers who can speak in class regarding the focus of the research project (WWII, Cold War, England, etc)

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