English, Grade 9 (De-streamed)
Ontario · Grade 9 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Literacy Connections and Applications
Being a safe, critical, and creative user of digital and media texts, and understanding the identities, histories, and perspectives of diverse communities — including First Nations, Metis, and Inuit voices — through the texts you read and make.
- Online rights, responsibilities, and your digital identity
- Navigating online safely and protecting your privacy
- Researching with a guard against misinformation
- Analyzing and creating digital and media texts
- How form, message, context, and audience connect
- Using digital tools to solve real problems
- Collaborating online safely and respectfully
- Identity, self, and belonging in diverse texts
- Themes in First Nations, Metis, and Inuit cultures
Unit 2: Foundations of Language
The building blocks that make communication work at the Grade 9 level: listening and speaking with skill, reading and spelling complex words, and using sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation precisely.
- Effective listening skills for real conversations
- Listening strategies to analyze what you hear
- Speaking for a purpose and audience
- Oral and non-verbal communication strategies
- Precise word choice and cohesive sentences when speaking
- Reading and spelling complex words with morphology
- Understanding and using a wide vocabulary flexibly
- Reading complex texts fluently
- Building complex sentences
- Grammar and the functions of parts of speech
- Capitalization and punctuation for clear meaning
Unit 3: Comprehension: Understanding and Responding to Texts
Reading, understanding, and thinking critically about complex texts at the Grade 9 level: knowing how texts are built, applying strategies to make meaning, and analyzing devices, perspectives, and cultural elements.
- Comprehending complex texts
- Analyzing text forms and genres
- Text patterns and features in expository texts
- How images and visual design create meaning
- Elements of style in texts
- Analyzing narrator point of view
- Making meaning through Indigenous Storywork
- Using prior knowledge to understand new texts
- Setting a purpose and selecting suitable texts
- Predicting, questioning, and refining understanding
- Monitoring and fixing comprehension
- Connecting and comparing ideas across texts
- Summarizing and synthesizing complex texts
- Reflecting on comprehension strategies
- Analyzing senior-level literary devices
- Making local and global inferences
- Assessing credibility and drawing conclusions
- Analyzing cultural elements in texts
- Analyzing perspectives and bias
- Responding to topics like diversity and inclusion in texts
- Comparing influences on First Nations, Metis, and Inuit texts
- Reflecting on critical-thinking skills
Unit 4: Composition: Expressing Ideas and Creating Texts
Creating your own texts at the Grade 9 level: planning and researching, drafting with a personal style, touch-typing and word-processing, revising and editing, and publishing and reflecting.
- Choosing topic, purpose, audience, and form
- Generating and developing ideas on complex topics
- Gathering, synthesizing, and citing sources
- Classifying and sequencing content
- Evaluating planning strategies and tools
- Drafting complex texts in various genres
- Touch-typing and word-processing fluently
- Establishing an identifiable voice
- Handling points of view and bias in your writing
- Revising drafts for clarity, focus, and coherence
- Editing and proofreading for accuracy and style
- Producing polished final texts
- Publishing, presenting, and evaluating choices
- Reflecting on the creative process
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