SALTA Honors Requirements Unit 2: Influence-How do human ingenuity and self-expression influence the world? Teachers will select two extensions and one supplemental activity for each unit. The activities may be selected from this list of ideas or may be teacher produced. If teachers have additional ideas they would like to add to this list of extensions and supplemental please contact the 9th grade ELA Lead. Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts Extended Learning Activity Socratic Seminar regarding the impact/effect that the person’s influence has had on the world. Debate an issue (SIRS or ) Research and Inquiry Integration Project Based Learning Question Service project Outside Project Make a documentary film about someone whose ingenuity/expression influenced the world. Supplemental Assignments Mini or full research project with oral presentation about someone whose ingenuity/expression influenced the world.
Literary Informational Stories Mythology, Edith Hamilton (1040L)* Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths, Bernard Evslin (800L) Poems , Homer* , Virgil (*No Lexile Available) “,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (*No Lexile Available) Excerpts from “ John Keats (*No Lexile Available) “,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (*No Lexile Available) Excerpts from theRamayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki, (*No Lexile Available) Graphic Novels The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds A.D. New Orleans: After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld CAUTION - * Indicates that the Lexile level of the text is below the recommended Lexile range for that grade level. +More than ½ non-standard prose. (Lexile is based on prose analysis; therefore non-prose does not receive a Lexile measure). Excerpts from The Gold of Troy (Robert Payne) (1030L)* Excerpts from Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, Elizabeth D. Samet (1400L) Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, Andrew Carroll, ed. (1070L)* , Joseph Campbell (1330L) “,” Ed Richter, Dayton Dailey News (1250L) “,” Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor (1240L) T, Dr. Andrew Bernstein (1370L) “” Mike Dilbeck, Responsibility Project (930L)* 012 Invention Awards: “” Neil Levy, The Conversation (600L)* Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle fire and Its Legacy, Albert Marrin, Between and Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston Unit 5 Planning and Notes
SALTA Honors Requirements Unit 6: Fate-What is the role of fate in the human experience? Teachers will select two extensions and one supplemental activity for each unit. The activities may be selected from this list of ideas or may be teacher produced. If teachers have additional ideas they would like to add to this list of extensions and supplemental please contact the 9th grade ELA Lead. Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts Read other works by Shakespeare If doing Romeo and Juliet finding informational text about different cultural context for relationships and love Extended Learning Activity Rewrite scenes from the play in a different time period/context. Playbill (Cover, character list, scene summary, actor bio, thematic paper, socratic paper) Socratic Seminar Character Project (playlist, mask, facebook page, etc) Research and Inquiry Integration Project Based Learning Question Renaissance Fair Outside Project Supplemental Assignments Any assignment for Renaissance Fair