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Thomas Aquinas Secondary School

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Overview
Course Subject

Gr. 9 English

Course
Code

ENG1D

Curriculum Connections
Overall
Expectations

Reading:
1. Reading for Meaning: read and demonstrate an understanding of a
variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range of
strategies to construct meaning;
3. Reading With Fluency: use knowledge of words and cueing
systems to read fluently;
Writing:
1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and
organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and
audience;
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their
strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they
found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
Specific
Reading:
Expectations
1.2 use several different reading comprehension strategies before,
during, and after reading to understand both simple and complex
texts
1.3 identify the important ideas and supporting details in both
simple and complex texts
1.4 make and explain inferences about both simple and complex
texts, supporting their explanations with stated and implied ideas
from the texts
1.5 extend understanding of both simple and complex texts by
making connections betweenthe ideas in them and personal
knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world
around them
Writing:
1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for several different
types of writing tasks
1.4 identify, sort, and order main ideas and supporting details for
writing tasks, using several different strategies and organizational
patterns suited to the content and purpose for writing
Connections to
An effective communicator who:
CGEs/ Focus on
(b) Reads, understands and uses written materials effectively.
Faith
(c) Presents information and ideas clearly and honestly and with
sensitivity to others.
(d) Writes and speaks fluently one or both of Canadas official
languages.
Identified Students
Yes No
within this

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Prior Learning:

Prior to this lesson, students will

have
Completed several assignments and activities in the Non-fiction unit, including a
comparitive presentation to discuss relationships between non-fiction stories and fiction
read earlier in the semester

Minds On:

Establishing a positive learning environment, connection to prior

knowledge and/or experience; setting the context for learnings
Description:
Writing Activity: hands & misheard questions - This activity will use the following prompts
from the teacher to direct students' creative writing.
Pre writing questions:
1.
Think of a person ( who doesnt have to be human)
2.
Think of somewhere the person might be
Writing Activity Questions
1.
Describe the persons hands
2.
Describe what the person is doing with his/her hands
3.
Where is the person?
4.
Think of a question you would like to ask the person
5.
If the person mishears the question, how does he/she respond?
Teacher's Example:
1.
Oscar the Grouch
2.
In the penthouse suite of the Hilton hotel in New York city
1.
His hands were weathered and matted with soiled green fur. They had certainly
seen better days before years of sifting through trash had taken their toll.
2.
He looked down at the grime under the finger nails of his left hand as the right
popped a fresh grape into his mouth. The grape unfortunately picked up a flavor of
coffee rinds and sewage in the short time between spent in his forefinger and thumb.
3.
The room he was in was opulent. Off white marble and rich mahogany bedecked
the floors and walls. The scent of roses and freshly cut fruit masked the underlying
stench of refuse. Paintings of Victorian noblemen adorned the walls, seeming to hold
their noses up at the vulgar aromas assaulting their senses.
4.
What was he doing so out of place? How did he come to be so far above his
station?
5.
I never lived in a station before, only in a dumpster behind one. He mutters
under his breath.

Action: Introducing new learning or extending/reinforcing prior learning; providing

opportunities for practice and application of learning
Description:
Read "The Sacred Rac" in "Sightlines 9", pg 54-55. Students will have opportunity to
discuss new vocabulary, meaning, themes and significance of the text.

Consolidation and Connection:

Helping students demonstrate what

they have learned; providing opportunities for consolidation and reflection.

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Description:
Students will be given class time to write a paper to help prepare for culminating
assignments next week.
In class assignment:
In "The Sacred Rac", Patricia Hughes describes a culture that dedicates a great deal of its
resources to an unproductive and possibly detrimental activity. Illustrate a similar
behavior in a social group or culture in either "The Book Thief" or "Midsummer Night's
Dream" with as many specific referrences, comparisons and contrasting statements as
possible to fully explore the behaviour. (A similar question will be worth 8% of your final
grade on the culminating assignment).