Reading
Objective 9.1
SOL Correlation: 9.4
Students will expand their vocabulary through the use of dictionaries and other reference materials, context clues, and word structure.

• Students will comprehend and utilize literary, technical, and consumer vocabulary in writing and oral formats. Necessary skills include knowledge and application of word origins, denotation and connotation, jargon and inferences

Objective 9.2
SOL Correlation:9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Students will read analytically from both technical and literary works.

• Students will follow written directions such as computer software directions, product manuals, and health and safety directions.
• Students will apply the themes of literary works to real world contexts, making connections, for example, between the reading selection and the world of work.
• Students will perceive relationships between form and function, the impact of point of view, and the cause/effect relationship among characters, plot, and setting, tone and theme.
• Students will differentiate among literary genres (novels, plays, short stories, poetry, nonfiction) and demonstrate a knowledge of literary terms and techniques.

Objective 9.3
SOL Correlation:9.3, 9.4, 9.5
Students will read, reflect, and respond to a variety of literary works.

• Students will exercise creative and critical thinking skills such as inferring, hypothesizing, sequencing, relating, classifying, organizing, predicting, confirming, questioning, analyzing, imagining, problem-solving, and evaluating.
• Students will explain the relationship between the author's style and literary effect.
• Students will explain the influence of a social, cultural or historic context on the form, style and point of view of a written work.

Communicating
Objective 9.4
SOL Correlation:9.6
Students will use a variety of sentence structures to add diversity and richness to their writing and speaking style.

• Students will employ correct grammar, mechanics, and usage to extend to their speaking and writing beyond simple sentences. Skills depend on an understanding and application of compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences, as well as phrases and clauses. Emphasis will also include elimination of run-ons and incomplete sentences.

Objective 9.5
SOL Correlation:9.5
Students will write well developed paragraphs.

• Students will plan and develop narrative, descriptive and expository (literary and technical) writings to inform, explain, analyze, or entertain. Paragraphs will contain topic sentences, adequate development and details, transitions, and clincher sentences.
• Students will revise and edit their writing to expand and reduce senetences effectively, to achieve a balance of specificity and generalization, and to reflect correct usage and mechanics.

Objective 9.6
SOL Correlation:9.6
Students will write descriptive, narrative, and expository compositions based on personal experience and real-life situations.

• Students will elaborate through effective diction and development and group their ideas into unified paragraphs organized into a logical sequence.

Objective 9.7
SOL Correlation:9.2
Students will make planned oral presentations.

• Students will participate in small and large group discussions and apply cooperative learning skills.
• Students will include definitions to increase clarity.
• Students will use relevant details, anecdotes, and examples to support main ideas.
• Students will cite information sources.
• Students will make impromptu responses to questions about presentations.

Objective 9.8
SOL Correlation:9.1
Students will present and critique dramatic readings of literary selections

• Students will choose literary forms for presentations from different genres.
• Students will adapt presentations techniques to fit literary form.
• Students will use verbal and nonverbal techniques for presentations.
• Students will exercise responsibility when addressing or participating in an audience.
• Students will evaluate the impact of presentations.

Research and Information Management
Objective 9.9
SOL Correlation:9.4, 9.7, 9.8
Students will compile, synthesize, organize and apply information

• Students will listen actively, read for specific information, and respond by such methods as learning logs, note taking, outling, highlighting, or graphically organizing data and notes.
• Students will transfer or apply information they have collected to the development of a research paper, an I-search, or a project relative to a thesis, proposal, or problem/solution, complete with citations and bibliography.
• Students will use the media center and computer technology to research, focus and document information.
• Students will distinguish their own ideas from information created or discovered by others and demonstrate an ability to paraphrase and credit secondary sources using the MLA method. They will understand the meaning and consequences of plagiarism.

Technology Objectives
Objective 9.10
Students will use the computer for word processing.

• Students will apply certain keyboarding conventions such as spacing, tabbing for indentation, and centering.
• Students will also navigate the menu functions and use additional programs for editing and revising, such as a grammar checking program.

Objective 9.11
Students will interact with visual media.

• Students will be active vs. passive viewers, especially of television and film.
• Students will differentiate between fantasy and reality, as well as fact and opinion.
• Students will compare and contrast a visual with a print medium, for example, a movie based on a novel.
• Students will apply knowledge of literary techniques and terms to visual media.