NORDHEIM HIGH SCHOOL
500 N. BROADWAY
Nordheim, TX 78141
MRS. MOY
English I Syllabus-9th grade

*2nd six weeks (09/27/2025-10/31/2025)

Unit 2- Moving Toward Justice
What can the past teach us about efforts to create a better world today?
Non-Fiction
Pg 153-Academic vocabulary
pg. 165 -"I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
About the author
Original Video-Wahington D.C.
Question 1-7
pg. 174-175 "Letter From Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Writing to Compare-essay
Logos, Pathos, and Ethos-definitions and examples from readings pg 196
Questions 1-7
"Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." by Cesar Chavez
Read and analize
Revising and Editing 
pg. 268
Fiction
pg. 217 "Senor Noboa" by Ra'ul Leis
Questions 1-8
Concept vocabulary
Literary/Text Elements-characterization, plot, theme
pg, 249 "The Many Lives of Hazel" by David Margolick
Background
Context clues
Conprehension questions 1-8
Concept Vocabulary

Research
The Civil Rights Movement

Poetry
"For My People" by Margaret Walker
"Incident" by Natasha Treadway
"Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper"
pg. 231 Analysis and Discussion 4-7
Literary / Text Elements-Poetic Structure
pg. 234 Author's craft
pg. 269-Reflect on Unit 2

*3rd six weeks (11/03/25-12/19/25)
UNIT 3-Crazy, Stupid Love
What is true love?
 Do we determine our own direction in love?
Or are we simply at the mercy of fate? 

Unit 3 Intro-"Romeo and Julet:  A Tragedy or Just a Tragic Misunderstanding?"  pg. 274
Word Network
Summary-pg 276
Quickwrite

Historical Background- pg. 279-285
 Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)
*The Renaissance
*Theater in England
*William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet
*Shakespeare-Impact on the English language

Play
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
-Capulets and the Montagues
(TEST)

Greek Tragedy- Pyramis and Thisbe by Ovid pg. 401 
Analysis Questions 1-7
Multiple choice-pg. 406
Compare and cotrast with "Romeo and Juliet"-writing assignment
Rough draft, Final essay

Argumentative Texts-paired
 pgs. 425-430
"Romeo and Juliet Is a Terrible Play, and David Leveaux Can't Change That" by Alyssa Rosenburg
"In Defense of Romeo and Juliet:  It's Not Childish, It's "About" Childishness" by Noah Berlatsky
Questions 1-7
Characteristics and Structure of Arguments pg. 433
Challenge the authors' claims

Fiction
"American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer pgs. 437-444
Concept vocabulary pg. 436
Essay question-pg. 445

Poetry pgs. 450-455
"Futility" by Claude McKay
"How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Sonnet XVII" from One Hundred Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda
Compare and contrast-
What do they have in common? What is different?
pg. 456 questions
What is a sonnet? 
Elizabethan (English) or Shakespearean sonnet-Quatrains and Couplets
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet-Octave and Sestet

Poetry Powerpoint
Types of Poems-write a Haiku
Figurative Language-Matching

Essay- Argumentative
What is true love?
Rough draft/ Final draft

Revising and Editing
pg. 470 Multiple choice

UNIT 4-Journeys of Transformation
pgs. 482-487
Historical Context-Acient Greece
Greek Mythology and Customs
Homer, the Epic Poet
Epic Poems

Video Presentation-The Odyssey
Take notes-
*Characters
*Setting
*Plot
TEST  grade (Semester Exam)

 Project- Plotting Odysseus' Travels
*Rubric provided

*Twelve Daily Grades per six weeks
*Two Major Test Grades per six weeks
*Quizzes (anytime)

Contact Information
Mrs. Dawn Moy
email- dmoy@nordheimisd.org
phone- (361) 938-5211 
 Ext. 303