Grade 9
“Grade 9 comes with a huge jump at school, where students have the ability to choose their own elective courses. Academically, students will see a large increase in self-regulated learning and note-taking, as teachers will start to provide a more hands-off teaching approach.”
Goals for a Grade 9 Student
- Solidify a study routine for test preparation
- Build self-confidence in public speaking presentations and oral reports
- Practice social and teamwork skills through group projects
English Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 9 in English:
✓ Use reading strategies to determine theme, main idea, and supporting details
✓ Analyze the effectiveness of an author’s use of persuasive devices
✓ Determine recurring themes in literature
✓ Evaluate and analyze texts and present ideas with peers
✓ Analyze and evaluate text for validity and accuracy
How Your English Tutor Will Help:
✓ Share strategies to write with an emphasis on voice, word choice, and organization
✓ Introduce writing techniques for expressive and creative texts
✓ Introduce keyword search strategies and locate appropriate and varied information sources
✓ Recognize relevant facts and ideas to evaluate biases of sources and authors
✓ Practice formulating questions about an issue from multiple perspectives
Mathematics Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 9 in Math:
✓ Use operations with rational numbers
✓ Answer questions with exponents and exponent laws
✓ Understand how to use operations with polynomials
✓ Properly use linear relations using graphing, interpolation, and extrapolation
✓ Understand financial literacy using simple budgets and transactions
How Your Math Tutor Will Help:
✓ Increase knowledge on abstract concepts such as rational numbers, exponents, polynomials
✓ Challenge students to justify mathematical ideas and decisions
✓ Increase financial literacy for understanding of real life problems by introducing budgets and transaction analyses
✓ Introduce statistics and its usage in real life problems
✓ Promote analytical and problem solving skills needed in senior high school math
