Grade 9 Curriculum
Grade 9 comes with a huge jump at school. 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 9 Curriculum
• 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
Share strategies to write with an emphasis on voice, word choice, and organization
Introduce writing techniques for expressive and creative texts
Recognize relevant facts and ideas to evaluate biases of sources and authors
Practice formulating questions about an issue from multiple perspectives
Math 9 Curriculum
• Use operations with rational numbers
• Answer questions with exponents and exponent laws
• Understand how to use operations with polynomials
• Solve linear relations using graphing, interpolation, and extrapolation
• Understand financial literacy using simple budgets and transactions
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
Promote analytical and problem solving skills needed in senior high school math