English 9A is the first semester of a two-semester, UC A-G Subject Area B (English) college-preparatory sequence for Grade 9, built to the California Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grades 9-10.
Across four units you will read two full-length public-domain works — Homer’s Odyssey and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — alongside seminal speeches and essays, and you will write four multi-draft academic essays totaling more than 2,500 words. Every unit ends with a spoken defense of your own interpretation.
Standards: CA CCSS ELA 9-10 (RL, RI, W, SL, L) · Articulation: UC A-G Subject Area B — English.
Course credits: All readings are public domain or licensed CC BY 4.0. Rhetoric and composition instruction is adapted from Writing for Success (BCcampus OpenEd, CC BY 4.0) and the Saylor Academy ENGL000 handbook (CC BY 4.0). Adapted and structured for digital delivery by Sejal Learning Solutions.
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 34 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Unit 1: Foundations of Narrative Craft & The Hero’s Journey10
- 1.1Introduction2 mins
- 1.2The Epic Tradition, Invocation, and In Medias Res45 mins
- 1.3Hospitality and the Rules of the Guest: Xenia in Books 5-845 mins
- 1.4Language Lab — Semicolons, Conjunctive Adverbs, and the Analytical Sentence40 mins
- 1.5Seminar — Arete or Hubris? Odysseus in the Apologoi (Books 9-12)50 mins
- 1.6Disguise and Recognition as Structure: Books 13-1645 mins
- 1.7Writing Workshop — Thesis, Topic Sentence, and the Embedded Quotation50 mins
- 1.8Dramatic Irony in the Hall: Books 17-2045 mins
- 1.9Key Assignment — Heroic Archetype Analytical Essay (Books 21-24)150 mins
- 1.10Ithaca Under Siege: Epic Craft in The Odyssey15 mins
- Unit 2: Dualities of Human Nature & Gothic Allegory10
- 2.1Introduction2 mins
- 2.2Setting as Psychological Mirror — Fog, Doors, and Victorian London45 mins
- 2.3The Murder as Turning Point: Chapters 3-445 mins
- 2.4Seminar — Biology or Repression? Emerson, Stevenson, and the Source of Hyde50 mins
- 2.5Framed Narrative, Point of View, and the Colon45 mins
- 2.6Unreliable and Withheld Narration: Chapters 5-645 mins
- 2.7Climax and the Pace of Dread: Chapters 7-845 mins
- 2.8Writing Workshop — Claim, Counterclaim, and the Concession Paragraph50 mins
- 2.9Key Assignment — Symbolic Duality Argument Essay (Chapters 9-10)150 mins
- 2.10Fog, Doors and the Mirror of London: Jekyll and Hyde15 mins
- Unit 3: Rhetorical Appeals & The Art of Argument7
- 3.1Introduction2 mins
- 3.2The Rhetorical Triangle — Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Pericles45 mins
- 3.3Language Lab — Parallel Structure, Anaphora, and Rhetorical Cadence45 mins
- 3.4Listening Lab — Evaluating a Speaker’s Reasoning and Naming Fallacies50 mins
- 3.5Writing Workshop — The Four-Sentence Rhetorical Precis50 mins
- 3.6Key Assignment — Rhetorical Analysis and Audience Rewrite150 mins
- 3.7Pericles Speaks: Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Athens15 mins
- Unit 4: Synthesis, Research, and Comparative Defense7
- 4.1Introduction2 mins
- 4.2Inheritance and Argument — How an Author Transforms Source Material45 mins
- 4.3Research Lab — Source Credibility, Signal Phrases, and MLA Citation50 mins
- 4.4Media Lab — The Same Subject in Different Mediums50 mins
- 4.5Writing Workshop — Synthesis as Braiding, Not Reporting50 mins
- 4.6Key Assignment — Synthesis Research Paper and Digital Presentation200 mins
- 4.7The Research Library: Inheritance, Sources and Mediums15 mins
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