In Grade 9 students will recognize and generate more sophisticated sentences using dependent clauses and verbals. They will write sentences with intervening elements between subject and verb with correct agreement. They will use correct antecedent agreement with indefinite pronouns
TEACHER ELEMENTS |
STUDENT ELEMENTS |
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GRADE 9 |
GRADE 9 |
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THE TEACHER SHALL: |
THE STUDENT SHOULD: |
REVIEW, RETEACH, AND REASSESS PAST CONCEPTS. |
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NEW CONCEPTS |
NEW CONCEPTS |
Explain increasingly more involved simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. |
Correctly generate and punctuate simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. |
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Give examples of increasingly more involved adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. |
Compose increasingly more involved adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. |
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Teach the importance, functions, uses, and punctuation of gerunds/gerund phrases. |
Recognize and originate sentences with gerund/gerund phrases used as subjects, direct objects, predicate nouns, and objects of prepositions. |
Explain the use of the possessive form before gerunds/gerund phrases. |
Recognize and avoid dangling gerund phrases. Use the possessive form of nouns and pronouns before gerunds/gerund phrases. |
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Teach the importance, functions, and uses of participles/participial phrases. |
Recognize and generate sentences with participles/participial phrases used as adjectives. Recognize and avoid dangling participial phrases. |
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Explain infinitives/infinitive phrases used as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. |
Recognize and generate sentences with infinitives/infinitive phrases used as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Recognize and avoid dangling infinitive phrases. |
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Teach the rules of subject-verb agreement which pertain to sentences that contain intervening prepositional phrases and/or parenthetical expressions. |
Correctly write sentences which contain intervening prepositional phrases and/or parenthetical expressions lying between the subject and the verb. |
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Teach the rules of subject-verb agreement (e.g., collective nouns, nouns which are plural in form but singular in meaning, nouns of amount and time). |
Use correct subject-verb agreement in sentences which contain collective nouns, nouns which are plural in form but singular in meaning, nouns of amount and time. |
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Teach subject-verb agreement with singular and plural indefinite pronouns. |
Use correct subject-verb agreement in sentences which contain singular and plural indefinite pronouns. |
