Student Survive 2 Thrive: 9th Grade ELA Curriculum

Free 9th Grade ELA Curriculum. Photo of Prague Library by izoca at https://pixabay.com/illustrations/prague-library-prague-monastery-980732/

Below are links for all assignments I created for 9th grade ELA. I discovered many helpful language arts resources but could not find a free, cohesive option as my daughter was starting high school, so I decided to create my own.

This curriculum encourages students to read eight novels during the school year, approximately one each month, in addition to learning more about the books and authors via videos and websites. I sought advice regarding which novels to choose from several different sources, including public school teachers, my older daughters, students in my early college classes, and my daughter who took this class I provided a list of novels and allowed my daughter to choose two of the novels herself, which worked out well for our family. The movies we watched were no extra charge to us and included ones on YouTube, on DVD through our public library, or on streaming services such as Hulu or Amazon Prime. I read each of the novels shortly before my daughter was assigned to read the book so that we could discuss them and we also talked about how they compared to the movies.

My daughter created a digital scrapbook focusing on each novel and then presented it to the family to get more practice with public speaking. You might break it up into presentations per quarter or semester rather than the whole school year. When preparing for the presentation, it works best to copy the document to preserve the original and then select portions to present. The digital scrapbook offered a wide variety of options that encouraged creativity throughout the school year.

In addition, my daughter completed several CommonLit assignments each week. This site provides a wide variety of reading assignments such as speeches, excerpts, poems, etc. Many of those assignments aligned well with either the novels she was reading, world history or visual arts assignments, or the season or holidays of year. Since I have an official home school, I was able to email the CommonLit site my documentation of being an official school and I was able to access their resources with a free account. Many of the CommonLit readings and questions are available for free to anyone; however, if you wish to have the answers associated with the questions, you'll need an account with them.

I found that my daughter needed more grammar practice, so she began a grammar refresher course through Gale University. The courses she accessed at Gale University were free for card holders at Rowan Public Library. Since she was taking grammar through another source, we didn't use many of the grammar resources I had been considering for ELA, but I left the links available for you in case you wish to review and use any of them. If you decide to use them, you might adjust some assignments to allow for practice of various concepts covered at the links.

Many of these ELA assignments align well with other subjects I taught, including world history and visual arts, so I included links to those individual assignments at the bottom of each week's assignments. I also included links to various other articles I wrote that I thought might interest readers.

You are welcome to use any or all of my resources for home schools, public schools, private schools, or simply to challenge yourself to learn more. I utilized Google Classroom for free when teaching ninth grade and that platform worked well for us. Share my links with others who might also be interested in my resources. I hope you find this ELA curriculum to be helpful!

Digital ELA Scrapbook Assignment