9. Grade English Year Plan

9. Grade English Year Plan

Week/Date / Topic / Materials / Focus/Assignments
33 / Welcome back / -Cooperative Learning (CL) games
-Grammar(piece 9) pdf
/ -class and team building
-fears/expectations, letters to yourself
-Discuss ‘the test’
-Pick top 4 grammar you want to learn
34-35 / Youth Culture / -
Youth Culture Unit: Youth Cultures past and present
-‘What is youth Culture’
-‘From BabyBoomers to Letter Generation’ / -what is culture?
-What is youth culture? -Danish, Chinese, British, American Youth Culture
-‘Generation Gap’ paper
36 / Jeginø lejren / Jorden Rundt…
37-38 / Youth Culture / -
Youth Culture Unit: The 2000s and Today
-‘A Week of Facebook’
-‘The Need for Self-promotion’
-‘The way I see it’ (pdf)
-‘signs of our times’ (pdf) / -social media
-youth culture in china
-summarize unit, questions, possible topics, “quotes” for unit.
39-40 / China / -
Travel Unit
-various internet sources / -Prejudices. What you know. What you want to find out.
-history, geography and weather,culture(art,dance,music), language, food and holidays, government, population, religion, controversial issues (human rights and enviromental)
-research and presentations of one of the above topics
-Tourist vs. Traveller. Respecting the culture you travel in (website from gyldendal)
-written assignment for trip
41 / Terminsprøve
(Monday thru Wednesday) / -final preparation for trip
42-43 / Efterårsferie
(trip to China)
45 / China / -presentations
-summarize unit, questions, possible topics, “quotes” for unit.
46-47
(samtale
mon./wed) / Gotta Dance / -‘Gotta Dance’ files (photocopy and pdf) / -Gotta dance projects and presentations
48 / Project
49 / Gotta Dance / -presentations of ‘Gotta Dance’ projects
-Film?
50-51 / Read (england), write and Grammar / -‘Lots of lovely Grammar’
-Webproevertilengelsk.dk
-‘Lydia meets the Danes’(pdf)
-‘Why I like England’ (pdf)
-‘cozy little denmark’ (pdf)
Christmas Break
2-6 / Racism / -‘Racism’ (pdf)
-‘Racism’ Adrian Cooper
- ‘Focus on :I have a dream’
-‘Focus on Black America’ Edward and Hannah Broadbridge
- Friend or Foe: Civil war to civil rights:
-Reconstruction
--‘The Jim Crow Laws’
--‘Remembering Jim Crow’
--‘Rosa Parks’
-The Civil Rights Movement’
--‘I Have a Dream’
--‘Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement’
Film: Crash / -Define racism
-Is there racism in DK?
-Civil rights movement
-MLK, Malcom X and Rosa Parks
-written assignment from ‘crash’.
7 / Winter Break
8-9 / England / ‘Destination England’ (pdf)
‘Black Country’ (word doc)
‘Jamie Oliver’s England’ (film) / -England. Brief look….food, culture, black country, geography
-consider your own country (denmark) and be able to discuss.
-Written assignment for England trip
10 / Trip to England
11 / England / -discuss trip and finish unit
12-13 / The Test…begin to prep
14 / Easter Break
16-17 / Gotta Dance again or something else….fun? / -Comparing and contrasting dance styles.
-talking about dance….
19-22 / Review and Prep