English 9
In the grade nine course, students further refine their writing ability, producing expository papers of up to five hundred words in length. The study of various forms of literature continues, with an eye to the development of critical reading and interpretive skills. Works studied include: Dickens, Great Expectations; Gwynn, A Longman Pocket Anthology of Poetry; Homer, Odyssey (trans. Fagles); May, Fiction's Many Worlds; Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1; Vocabulary Workshop, Level E; Wiesel, Night; Wilson, Fences.