BHS 9th Grade ELA

Relationships and Identity

Suggested Pacing: ~6 Weeks, First Half of Trimester

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

● How do interpersonal relationships affect our identities and choices? ● What forces and variables contribute to the outcome of an event? ● How does cultural experience impact the relationship between society’s view on fate and free will?

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY Tier One

Tier Two

Tier Three

● Drama

● Dialogue ● Fate ● Analogy

● Aside ● Blank Verse ● Dramatic Irony ● Dramatic Structure ● Foil ● Chorus ● Iambic Pentameter ● Monologue ● Protagonist ● Shakespearean Sonnet

● Denotative ● Connotative ● Cumulative ● Rhythm ● Foreshadowing ● Metaphor ● Simile

● Soliloquy ● Tragedy

● Tragic Hero ● Alliteration ● Assonance ● Consonance

● Couplet ● Diction ● Assonance ● Consonance ● Figurative Language ● Personifcation ● Hyperbole ● Onomatopoeia ● Imagery

● Meter ● Rhyme ● Rhyme Scheme

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