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ELA: Grade 9 - LISTENING
Standard One Standard Two Standard Three Standard Four Literary Competencies Top
Standard 1: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.
	9.1.L.1	Interpret information from media presentations, such as news broadcasts and taped interviews	Listening to History Mark Twain, An American Icon: Student Interactive Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs Cracking the Genetic Code Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews The Feature Story-Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
	9.1.L.2	Listen to and follow complex directions or instructions
	9.1.L.3	Identify the speaker’s purpose and motive for communicating information	From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights Lincoln Goes to War Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
	9.1.L.4	Recognize appropriate voice and tone	"Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris Analyzing Character in "Hamlet" Through Epitaphs Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
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Standard 2: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.
	9.2.L.1	Interpret and respond to texts and performances from a variety of genres, authors, and subjects	Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Poetry: Sound and Sense Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome"
	9.2.L.2	Respond to authors’ reading and discussing their works	A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future Death in Poetry: A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Exploring Language and Identity: Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" and Beyond Using Student-Centered Comprehension Strategies with Elie Wiesel's "Night"
	9.2.L.3	Recognize features of literary genres in interpreting presentations of literary text	Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme Analyzing and Comparing Medieval and Modern Ballads "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor The Children's Picture Book Project Onomatopoeia: A Figurative Language Mini-lesson Poetry: Sound and Sense Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue: Student Interactive
	9.2.L.4	Recognize historical and contemporary social and cultural conditions in presentation of literary texts	Mental Health Through Literature Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project Exploring Audience and Purpose with a Single Issue Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of "All Quiet on the Western Front" From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History Behind the Satire From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and Karma in the Jataka Tales That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing" Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
	9.2.L.5	Connect literary texts to prior knowledge, personal experience, and contemporary situations	A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Inclusive Stories: Teaching About Disabilities With Picture Books The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing" Star-Crossed Lovers Online: "Romeo and Juliet" for a Digital Age Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing "The Odyssey" with Contemporary Works I Remember That Book: Rereading as a Critical Investigation
	9.2.L.6	Identify multiple levels of meaning in presentation of literary texts
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Standard 3: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
	9.3.L.1	Recognize and acknowledge various perspec-tives on issues of local and national concern	A Collaboration of Sites and Sounds: Using Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Inclusive Stories: Teaching About Disabilities With Picture Books That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court The Campaign of 1840: The Campaign Walt Whitman as a Model Poet: "I Hear My School Singing" Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights
	9.3.L.2	Determine points of view	Lincoln Goes to War
	9.3.L.3	Use prior knowledge, as well as the perspectives of other individuals, groups, and recognized experts, to analyze and evaluate presentations
	9.3.L.4	Evaluate the content and organization of the presentations, applying criteria such as point of view and appropriateness and completeness of reasons, examples, and details	Communicating on Local Issues: Exploring Audience in Persuasive Letter Writing Pygmies: Getting Right to the Point Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel "Persepolis": A WebQuest on Iran
	9.3.L.5	Evaluate the possible bias of the speaker, in order to judge the validity of the content	Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves From Friedan Forward-Considering a Feminist Perspective Narrative Structure and Perspectives in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
	9.3.L.6	Recognize the use of protocols and traditional practices in public speaking	Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events Myth and Truth: The Gettysburg Address
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Standard 4: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
	9.4.L.1	Participate as a listener in social conversation with one or more people who are friends, acquaintances, or strangers	Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive Self-Reflection: Taking Part in a Group: Student Interactive
	9.4.L.2	Respect age, gender, social position, and cultural traditions of the speaker	Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
	9.4.L.3	Listen for multiple levels of meaning, articulated and unspoken
	9.4.L.4	Encourage the speaker with appropriate facial expressions and gestures
	9.4.L.5	Withhold judgment
	9.4.L.6	Appreciate the speaker’s uniqueness	Bio-Graph: Graphing Life Events The Feature Story-Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame!
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Literacy Competencies
	9.LC.L.0	Listening A literacy competency strand for grades 9-12 Listening is under development and will be posted when available.	Audio Listening Practices: Exploring Personal Experiences With Audio Texts


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