The teacher companion to English 9AV — Voice, Testimony and the American Self, the parallel first-semester course that teaches the same CA CCSS 9-10 standards and meets the same UC A-G Area B bar as English 9A through Harriet Jacobs, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois and Zitkala-Ša. It is a separate course, not a hidden section of the student course, so you can work through it before a roster exists.
Module 1 covers what is specific to this track: how to explain the choice of track to a board, a parent or a department; what changes in a standards audit and what does not; a sixteen-week calendar built on the actual page counts of two full-length nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century books; and the handling of the most difficult material in either semester — sexual coercion under enslavement, lynching described in detail, racial slurs in period sources, and dialect writing.
Modules 2-5 take one student unit each: a briefing (what students produce, where the standards land, and the misreadings that come up every year), a facilitation module (seminar and workshop protocols, including what to do when a discussion turns personal), and a scoring module with student responses at different bands, what a scorer sees, and the one piece of feedback that moves that student up.
If your department also teaches English 9A, the architecture, the rubric logic and the integrity protocol are identical — this guide does not repeat what the 9A guide already covers well, and it says where to find it.
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 16 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Module 1: Teaching English 9AV4
- Module 2: Unit 1 — Who Is Permitted to Narrate3
- Module 3: Unit 2 — The Fiction of the Self3
- Module 4: Unit 3 — Evidence and the Public Argument3
- Module 5: Unit 4 — Synthesis: Testimony, Authenticity and Audience3
Instructor
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