The 69 competencies set for Grade 9 English, and every one has lessons behind it.
Values and Philosophies in Literature
3 competencies
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values.
Analyze maxims, universal truths, and philosophies in literary texts.
Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in literary texts as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Character and Conflict
6 competencies
Analyze character vs. character.
Analyze character vs. society.
Analyze character vs. nature/environment.
Analyze character vs. self.
Analyze character.
Analyze characterization.
Plot, Point of View, and Drama Elements
5 competencies
Analyze plot.
Analyze parallel plot.
Analyze episodic plot.
Analyze spectacle, dialogue, and music.
Analyze point of view and narrative techniques.
Literary Style and Poetic Devices
7 competencies
Analyze patterns and motifs.
Analyze style.
Analyze organic unity.
Analyze rhyme and meter.
Analyze figures of speech and sound devices.
Analyze diction.
Analyze tone and mood.
Context and Meaning in Texts
7 competencies
Analyze sign and referent.
Analyze binary opposition.
Analyze linguistic context, including co-text and collocation.
Analyze psychological context.
Analyze biographical context.
Analyze historical context.
Analyze sociocultural context.
Writing Literary Texts
4 competencies
Identify one’s meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: script for a one-act play.
Revise literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
Argumentative and Informational Text Features
3 competencies
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: argumentative text.
Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts.
Analyze discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definitions.
Claims, Evidence, and Persuasion
6 competencies
Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims.
Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, and claim of policy.
Distinguish facts from claims/opinions, including self-evidence, anecdotal evidence, argument from authority, and empirical evidence.
Analyze persuasive techniques to support an argument: ethos, pathos, and logos.
Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness: name calling vs. card stacking; ad nauseam propaganda vs. appeal to justice.
Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Inference, Audience, and Information Synthesis
6 competencies
Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author’s purpose and meaning; target audience including hypothetical vs. real, experts vs. laypeople, and managerial vs. rank-and-file.
Extract significant information.
Analyze real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Synthesize significant information.
Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment.
Planning Informational Texts
3 competencies
Identify the text type appropriate for one’s topic, purpose, and target audience.
Organize significant information using various technique.
Determine one’s thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Writing and Publishing Multimodal Informational Texts
6 competencies
Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Revise the text for coherence.
Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Edit the text for textual consistency.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one’s purpose and target audience: argumentative text.
Formal Correspondence and Letters of Complaint
9 competencies
Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender’s meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of complaint.
Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
Examine the sender’s voice for clarity of purpose and meaning.
Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
Identify one’s purpose and meaning in writing letters.
Compose a letter of complaint.
Revise for coherence and cohesion.
Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.
Academic Texts and Literature Reviews
4 competencies
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: academic texts.
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: literature review.
Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one’s purpose and target audience: literature review.
