Grade 9 Archives

• Unit 1 - Short story, plot, conflict, major/minor characters, topic sentences, transitions
• Unit 2 - The memoir, metaphor, simile, imagery (appeal to the senses)
• Unit 3 - Mythology, the epic hero, epithets, epic similes, theme, conflict
• Unit 4 - Focus on Step-Up to Writing (paragraphs)
• Unit 5 - Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"

Grade 10 Archives

• Unit 1 - The Crucible, hysteria, irony, characterization, motivation
• Unit 2 - American Gothic, elements of Gothic lit, theme, creative writing
• Unit 3 - The Wild West: Research process and composition
• Unit 4 - Immigration (late 1800s / early 1900s)
• Unit 5 - Propaganda from WWI, Memoir, and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
• Unit 6 - To Kill a Mockingbird + Socratic Seminar Dialog (unfinished)