9th, 10th, 11th and 12th ELA are all very much the same. This is the time to really analyze works, hone in on research and reference skills and be creating well written and concise essays. Its also the time you can tae many classes or electives including creative writing. Here is the printable as well.
Reading strategies
Main idea
Determine the main idea of a passage
Audience, purpose, and tone
Which text is most formal?
Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Identify audience and purpose
Compare passages for tone
Literary devices
Identify the narrative point of view
Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Recall the source of an allusion
Interpret figures of speech
Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
Classify figures of speech: review
Analyzing literature
Analyze short stories
Identify elements of poetry
Analyzing informational texts
Analyze the development of informational passages
Trace an argument:
Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts
Writing strategies
Organizing writing
Order topics from broadest to narrowest
Organize information by main idea
Topic sentences and thesis statements
Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
Identify thesis statements
Developing and supporting arguments
Distinguish facts from opinions
Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
Choose the best evidence to support a claim
Identify supporting evidence in a text
Evaluate counterclaims
Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Classify logical fallacies
Persuasive strategies
Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing
Creative techniques
Use personification
Writing clearly and concisely
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons
Identify sentences with parallel structure
Use parallel structure
Remove redundant words or phrases
Active and passive voice
Identify active and passive voice
Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Editing and revising
Use the correct frequently confused word
Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
Correct errors with signs
Correct errors in everyday use
Suggest appropriate revisions
Research skills (MLA)
Understand a Works Cited entry
Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry
Use in-text citations
Identify plagiarism
Vocabulary
Prefixes and suffixes
Word pattern analogies
Word pattern sentences
Words with pre-
Words with re-
Words with sub-
Words with mis-
Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
Words with -ful
Words with -less
Words with -able and -ible
Greek and Latin roots
Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Homophones
Use the correct homophone
Identify and correct errors with homophones
Foreign words and expressions
Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
Use the correct foreign expression
Word usage and nuance
Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
Use words accurately and precisely
Replace words using a thesaurus
Explore words with new or contested usages
Analogies
Analogies
Context clues
Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Reference skills
Use dictionary entries
Use dictionary definitions
Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
Use thesaurus entries
Grammar and mechanics
Sentences, fragments, and run-ons
Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
Identify sentence fragments
Identify run-on sentences
Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
Phrases and clauses
Is it a phrase or a clause?
Identify prepositional phrases
Identify appositives and appositive phrases
Identify dependent and independent clauses
Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Combine sentences using relative clauses
Nouns
Form and use plurals: review
Form and use plurals of compound nouns
Pronouns
Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
Subject and object pronouns review
Pronouns after “than” and “as”
Identify and correct pronoun errors with “who”
Use relative pronouns: who and whom
Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Identify vague pronoun references
Identify all of the possible antecedents
Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Verb types
Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns
Identify participles and what they modify
Identify gerunds and their functions
Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Subject-verb agreement
Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
Verb tense
Form the progressive verb tenses
Form the perfect verb tenses
Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
Choose between adjectives and adverbs
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst
Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst
Conjunctions
Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Misplaced modifiers
Misplaced modifiers with pictures
Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
Are the modifiers used correctly?
Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements
What does the punctuation suggest?
Commas with nonrestrictive elements
Commas
Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases
Commas with series, dates, and places
Commas with compound and complex sentences
Commas with coordinate adjectives
Commas: review
Semicolons, colons, and commas
Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
Semicolons, colons, and commas review
Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses
Use dashes
Use hyphens in compound adjectives
Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
Apostrophes
Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
Capitalization
Correct capitalization errors
Formatting
Formatting quotations and dialogue