Required Text:

• Literature Grade 9, pub. Holt-McDougal

An in-class only text, online login, and supplemental novels will be provided for the student during the school year.

Course Description : The purposes of the ninth grade course are as follows:

1. To enhance student understanding of the academic vocabulary for literature, writing, speaking, and language.
2. To provide students with a basis for evaluating and analyzing complex texts through genre study.
3. To provide students with opportunities to develop their own voices through writing and presentations.

This year’s core texts include:

• George Orwell's - Animal Farm 
• Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
• Homer’s “The Odyssey”

Students will continue to read and analyze a variety of other texts, including short stories, poetry, news articles and student essays .