Course Description:

**Part 1 must be completed before taking this course.*

This rigorous semester-long language arts course does not have any live meetings. The course is aligned to national standards. The course will focus on the areas of reading literature, reading informational, writing and speaking and listening. During this course, students will work on the standards that focus around citing text evidence, theme, summarizing, plot, character change, figurative language, point of view, main idea, argumentative writing and collaboration and discussion.

National Standards:
-RL.9.1 - Citing Text Evidence Literature
-RL.9.1 - Theme
-RL.9.2 - Summarizing
-RL.9.3 - Plot
-RL.9.3 - Character Change
-RL.9.4 - Figurative Language
-RL.9.6 - Point of View 
-RI.9.1 - Citing Text Evidence
-RI.9.2 - Main Idea
-RI.9.2 - Summarizing
-W.9.1 - Argumentative Writing
-SL.9.1 - Collaboration and Discussion

Course Format:
At the beginning of the week, a “List of Learning” Google Doc will be posted on the Outschool classroom page. Each “List of Learning” will have steps students need to complete for the week. These steps will include a lesson video to watch when a new standard is being introduced, reading assignments, discussion questions to respond to and give feedback to other classmates, assessments to complete, writing assignments and other assignments or extension opportunities to share with other students. Any work that will be turned in for grades/scores, will be in the form of a Google Doc. Students will need to share the document with the teacher and other students will not have access to the document. A Google Spreadsheet will be shared with each student in order to track progress when an assignment is graded/scored.

It is encouraged to have the readings and assignments done by each due date so students can participate in discussions together. To give each student a more meaningful learning experience, all students need to participate in the discussion questions by responding to the questions and giving feedback to other students.

The novel "La Linea" by Ann Jaramillo will be read in this course. This novel is about a fifteen-year-old boy, Miguel, who leaves behind his rancho in Mexico to migrate to California. Please research the novel to make sure it is appropriate for your child. 

Students will interact with one another through written discussion questions and activities posted on the Outschool classroom page. Some examples of activities are Kahoot and Quizlet. Google Docs will be used for assessments that are given a grade/score to obtain privacy. The teacher will interact with students through the discussion questions and providing feedback on the assignments.

Course Schedule (Subject to Change):
Weeks 1, 2, 3, & 4: Sweet Sorry Unit 
Weeks 5, 6, & 7: A Matter of Life or Death Unit
Weeks 8, 9, & 10: Heroes and Quests Unit
Weeks 11, 12, 13, & 14: “La Linea” Novel Study

Preview Week 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11GM881graxl9mWqPXpQrYJFPHMWxLuAx/view?usp=sharing

Week 1: Sweet Sorry Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Lesson: Point of View
-Reading: “from Love’s Vocabulary”
-Reading: "My Shakespeare"
-Reading: “Elements of Shakespearean Drama”

Week 2: Sweet Sorry Unit
-Lesson: Character Change
-Lesson: Plot
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” 	

Week 3: Sweet Sorry Unit
-Lesson: Theme
-Reading: “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”

Week 4: Sweet Sorry Unit
-Lesson: Figurative Language
-Reading: “from the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”
-Reading: “Pyramus and Thisbe”
-Reading: “Duty” 

Week 5: A Matter of Life or Death Unit
-Lesson: Main Idea
-Lesson: Summarizing
-Reading: “from Night”
-Reading: “from An Ordinary Man” 
-Reading: “Is Survival Selfish?” 
-Reading: “Truth At All Costs”

Week 6: A Matter of Life or Death Unit
-Lesson: Theme
-Reading: “from Deep Survival”
-Reading: “The Leap” 
-Reading: “The End and the Beginning” 
-Reading: “Poems About Survival”

Week 7: A Matter of Life or Death Unit
-Lesson: Argumentative Writing
-Argumentative Writing

Week 8: Heroes and Quests Unit
-Lesson: Figurative Language
-Reading: “The Epic” 
-Reading: “from the Odyssey” 
-Reading: “from the Odyssey”

Week 9: Heroes and Quests Unit
-Lesson: Citing Text Evidence
-Lesson: Plot
-Reading: “from the Odyssey: The Cyclops”
-Reading: “from The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu” 

Week 10: Heroes and Quests Unit
-Lesson: Main Idea
-Reading: “from The Good Soldiers”
-Reading: “The Real Reasons We Explore Space”
-Reading: “The Journey” 

Week 11: “La Linea” Novel Study

Week 12: “La Linea” Novel Study

Week 13: “La Linea” Novel Study

Week 14: “La Linea” Novel Study