Grade 9 students choose ONE of the following courses:<\/p>\n
English 9<\/b><\/p>\n
English 9 continues and extends the skills students have developed in English 9, and introduces newer, more complex, texts. In English 9, students will explore two major areas of curricular competency: comprehend and connect <\/span>(reading, listening, and viewing)<\/b> and create and communicate<\/span> (writing, speaking, and representing)<\/b>. <\/span><\/p>\n This means English 9 students will spend their year exploring a wide variety of texts – including but not limited to novels, short stories, non-fiction, and poetry, and creating their own texts – including their own stories, poetry, presentations, paragraphs, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n Through English 9, students will experience the pleasure of exploring story and the way it shapes identity, culture, and our understanding of the world. They will be well-prepared for the challenges of our senior English program. <\/span><\/p>\n English 9 Honours<\/b><\/p>\n English 9 Honours covers the same skills as those in English 9, but at an enriched level. This course is excellent for students with a passion for reading and writing and are looking for a challenge in their English course. Entry into the course is subject to department decision. Entrance into the Honours course is based on a written assessment as well as teacher recommendation. The following criteria is used to select successful applicants for the course: English Honours Selection Criteria<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n English 9 Language Development<\/strong><\/p>\n English 9 Language Development is a course for Grade 9 ELL Level 3 students.\u00a0This course has similar content and skills focuses as our regular English 9 course, but also emphasizes language instruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grade 9 students choose ONE of the following courses: English 9 English 9 continues and extends the skills students have developed in English 9, and introduces newer, more complex, texts. In English 9, students will explore two major areas of curricular competency: comprehend and connect (reading, listening, and viewing) and create and communicate (writing, speaking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8570,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}