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A standard curriculum for 9th grade English language arts will feature a range of literary pieces from diverse cultures globally. Ninth graders typically do book reports, which enhance their reading comprehension and writing abilities, while also building upon the writing skills they developed in earlier grades.

A few of the language arts tasks for 9th graders that your student should engage in are:

- Understand how to recognize the characteristics and intentions of myths, along with comparing myths from various cultures.

- Discover how to understand similes, dissect figurative language, and apply previous knowledge to forecast outcomes.

- Investigating and composing on legendary figures.

- Investigate the various thematic connections in the texts they read, including love, beauty, family, freedom, friendship, and the essence of human nature.

- Read and comprehend progressively difficult texts that enhance knowledge in history, science, and various other subjects.

- Write texts that showcase various perspectives.

- Carry out research and gather data from various sources to back their claims.

This comprehensive lesson outline features guided reading tasks for ninth grade that take around 90 minutes. Suggested answers are also included.

Flat Stanley: Stanley's Christmas Adventure written by Jeff Brown is a cute holiday book that all of my students enjoyed. Students can complete this packet of reading comprehension questions, finding definitions of challenging words, making up sentences using those challenging words, and paragraph writing independently or with support.

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The 2007 movie, Nancy Drew makes a connection with both the older and modern Nancy Drew novels. Students can see Nancy Drew in action when watching the movie, after reading the book series. The movie is similar to the book series in that it discusses problem solving skills, following rules, working together, and being a good friend. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the movie as well as students own experiences. Students can also write sentences uses unknown vocabulary words in sentences. Students can answer these comprehension questions as they watch the movie or after they have finished the movie.

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Leap Year 2024 | Leap Day Activity | Do We Need Leap Year Socratic Seminar: In this Mini Socratic Seminar and Lesson students will mark the text of an article about Leap Year and why we have them. Then they will have a Socratic Seminar in small groups in order to discuss the essential question, “What is a leap year and is it a necessity?”

By the end of this Socratic Seminar, your students will have a deep understanding of what a Leap Year is and how to mark a text to prepare for a successful Socratic Seminar. Use this AVID Mini Socratic Seminar Lesson to increase dialogue and engagement in your classroom!

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What's Included:

• Lesson Plan with a walkthrough of all the slides and a video overview and explanation.
• What is a Leap Year Article- google doc which includes a transcript for students to mark their text and come up with questions in the margins for the Seminar. They will also add an essential question at the top, asummary at the bottom, and fill out the embedded vocabulary chart.
• Google slides- go over the lesson and discuss the process of a Socratic Seminar. The slides include embedded links for students to follow along and access required documents.
• Participant Reflection- a digital Google Sheets document for students to summarize and reflect what they learned through the Seminar.

Directions:

• Students will discuss prior knowledge they share about leap years
• Students will read the provided article and follow directions in the slides to mark the text
• Students will highlight unknown words and add these words and their definitions to their embedded vocabulary chart in the article text
• Students will come up with questions for the Socratic Seminar using Costa's Level of Thinking.
• Students will meet with a partner to clarify any confusion.
• Students will summarize the text by answering the EQ in 3-5 sentences.
• Students will review the protocol for Socratic Seminars.
• Students will use their questions and provided sentence stems to have dialogue in the Seminar.
• Students will complete a participant checklist to reflect on the seminar.

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