BHS 9th Grade ELA

Advanced Learners Extensions

Teachers will select two extensions and one supplemental activity for each unit. The activities may be selected from this list of ideas or may be teacher produced. If teachers have additional ideas they would like to add to this list of extensions and supplemental please contact the 9th grade ELA Lead.

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts

1. Read other works by Shakespeare 2. If doing Romeo and Juliet , fnding informational text about different cultural context for relationships and love 3. Creative writing competition 4. Poetry competition: Poetry Out Loud 5. Create a music/poem video 1. Rewrite scenes from the play in a different time period/context. 2. Playbill (Cover, character list, scene summary, actor bio, thematic paper, socratic paper) 3. Socratic Seminar 4. Character Project (playlist, mask, facebook page, etc) 5. Create a website about poets

Extended Learning Activity

Research and Inquiry Integration Project Based Learning Question

1. Performance Poetry: Poetry Out Loud 2. Adobe Youth Voices 3. Literary Magazine

1. Renaissance Fair

Outside Project

Supplemental Assignments

1. Any assignment for Renaissance Fair 2. Submit work to online poetry site

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