English 9

English

Grade 9

English 9 begins the Upper School journey of forming students who will be skilled and confident readers and writers. As such, the course includes a substantial focus on grammar and composition, with students extensively practicing paragraph composition in multiple genres. Accompanying this attention on mechanics, English 9 equips students by developing their critical thinking skills and argumentative ability through rhetorical analysis of literary texts, and it expands their linguistic tools through consistent, integrated study of new vocabulary. English 9's literary study revolves around the ninth grade's key virtue of justice in many of its texts, and it also complements the historical content of Humanities 9 by studying Homer's Odyssey. In addition, ninth graders read Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, thereby continuing the sequence of Shakespeare comedies begun in English 8.

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