TRINITY UNIVERSITY OF ASIA BASIC EDUCATION- HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COURSE OUTLINE GRADE NINE Subject: English

Year Level: Grade 9 Subject Description: English III aims to develop among the students their four macro skill: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. All of the activities in this subject geared towards the development of the students communication skills which will help them express their ideas in writing or in spoken English. The literature focuses on British and American literature with the inclusion of some writing from foreign authors that will best enhance the students understanding of the topic. UNIT I/ 1 GRADING Literature Standards of Literature Narratives Basic Elements and Features of Narratives The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde Thank You, Maam, Langston Hughes Review of Parts of Speech Sentences The Last Leaf, O. Henry Life From the River, Jan Hudson Charles, Shirely Jackson The Beautiful Horse, D. Paulo Dizon Verb Tenses The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
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UNIT II/ 2 GRADING Basic elements and features of Drama Comedy vs. Tragedy The Finger of God, Percival Wilde Verb Aspect The Awakening, Feliciana Estagle Forms and Functions of the Perfect bTenses Lost and Found, Octavus Roy Cohen Works of Shakespeare Merchant of Venice, W. Shakespeare Direct and Indirect Speech Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, W. Shakespeare Mark Antonys Funeral speech The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, W.
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UNIT III/ 3 GRADING Elements and types of poetry Forms and features of poetry Poetry vs. Prose Rhyme scheme Figures of speech Poem 10, Jose Garcia Villa Poetry, Marianne Moore A Word, A book, The Brain, Emily, Emily Dickenson Adjectives Literary devices The Creation, James Weldon Johnson When I heard the Learnd Astronomer, Walt Whitman The Chamber Nautilus, Oliver Wendell Holmes I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud, William Wordsworth Participles and
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UNIT IV/ 4 GRADING Types and Elements of Essay Structure of Essay Teenagers, Fulton Sheen Let Hope Shines Your Way, Norman Vincent Peale Infinitive and Infinitive Phrases The Filipino Flag Rises. Alone, Carlos P. Romulo Commonwealth Code of Ethics, Manuel Luis Quezon Holy Week in the Philippines, I.V Mallari Adjective Clause Deafness can be an Asset, Thomas Edison On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read, David Raymond Parallelism To Err is Human, To Forgive is Divine, Lewis Thomas
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 Dr. Heideggers Experiment, Nathaniel Hawthorne Conjunctions Compound Sentences Personal Narratives Together for Life, James A. Michener Discovery of a Father, Sherwood Anderson Complex Sentences Compound-Complex Sentences I know why the Caged Bird Sing, Maya Angelou Punctuations

Shakespeare Pronouns

Participial Phrases Sonnet XXIX, William Shakespeare Soft Night, Abelardo Subido Sonnet to a Gardener, Tarrosa Subido Adverbs The Man with a Hoe, Edwin, Markham The Bells, Edgar Allan Poe Gerunds and Gerund Phrases The Skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to a Grecian Urn, John Keats To a Waterfowl, William Cullen Bryant Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives and Adverbs If, Rudyard Kipling If I Were a Voice, Charles Mackay I Shall Not Live in Vain, Emily Dickinson Subjunctive Mood Conditional Clause

A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding, Jonathan Swift Breaking Down Long Sentences The Night I Met Einstein, Jerome Weidman This I Believe, Albert Einstein Noun Clause Why Protect the Reefs?, Gretchen Hutchinson Is a Catastrophe Threatening the Earth?, Diether Schwab More Fire to Fire Prevention, an editorial, The Philippine Star Pollution May Be Irreversible, an editorial, Manila Bulletin Active and Passive Voices