GRADE 9 ENGLISH

Fall Semester

Topics

  • Views and voices
  • What helps you to learn?
  • Teenage psychology
  • Role models
  • Teenage voices
  • Facts and opinions
  • From ideas into words
  • Improve your writing
  • Project challenge
  • Autobiography
  • Well – being
  • Food for health
  • Food for thought
  • Are you getting enough sleep?
  • Mood and feelings
  • Keep a cool head
  • How to be happy
  • Improve your writing
  • Fiction: A Rainbow in Silk
  • Tourism
  • On holiday
  • A holiday to remember
  • How was your holiday?
  • Responsible tourism
  • A different type of family holiday
  • Is tourism a good thing?
  • Improve your writing
  • Fiction: The Summer Book
  • Science
  • The science of colour
  • Deadly diseases
  • What makes us the same? What makes us different?
  • Live and let live
  • The circle of life
  • Views on zoos
  • Poetry: Tortoise and Hare Race

Spring Semester

Topics

  • Technology
  • Social media and you
  • The home of the future
  • Digital media: good or bad
  • Have a story personalised!
  • Technology meets archaeology
  • In ten years time...
  • Improve your writing
  • Non-fiction A Little History of Science
  • Rules and Laws
  • School rules
  • Family life
  • House rules
  • Doing the right thing
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • What happened?
  • Improve your writing
  • Non-fiction Humankind
  • Competition
  • Team sport or individual sports?
  • Try this!
  • To compete or not to compete?
  • Two competitions
  • The art of photography
  • A towering achievement
  • Improve your writing
  • Non-fiction The Playbook
  • The Environment
  • Let's talk about the weather
  • Global warming and climate change
  • I'm very concerned about…
  • Zero waste
  • Living and growing
  • The air we breathe
  • Improve your writing
  • Poetry
  • Achievements and ambitions
  • I'd like to be…
  • I'm over the moon!
  • Would you be good at...?
  • Achieving your dreams
  • The power of the mind
  • Young achievers
  • Improve your writing
  • Fiction Rickshaw

Fall Semester

Assessments

  • End of Unit Tests
  • Project based assessments
  • First Written Assignment
  • Check your progress
  • Writing assignments
    • Writing an e-mail
    • Writing about a photo
    • Writing a travel blog
    • Writing an essay giving views about zoos
  • Homework assignments
  • Notebook check
  • Grammar test

Spring Semester

Assessments

  • End of Unit Tests
  • Project based assessments
  • Second Written Assignment
  • Check your progress
  • Writing assignments
    • Writing a report on technology in your school
    • Reply to an email about rules at your school
    • Write a for and against essay about competitive sport
    • Write a report about extreme weather conditions
    • Write an informal letter
  • Homework assignments
  • Notebook check
  • Grammar test

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