CURRICULUM MAP

GRADE 9
SUBJECT: English
TERM
(NO.):
MONTH

UNIT TOPIC AND

CONTENT

Term 1:
June
16- July
18

MODULE 1:
American Writing &
The Novel
A. Old English and
American Literature
1. Types and
Elements of a
Narrative
2. The Epic and
The Hero:
Beowulf
3. Canterbury Tales
4. American
Narrative Style:
Washington
Irving
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Edgar Allan
Poe
William
Faulkner
John Steinbeck
John Updike

TEACHERS: Ms. Dina Jedidah C. Alulod and Ms. Kristyannia Joi Alvarez

CONTENT
STANDARD (CS)
PERFORMANCE
STANDARD (PS)

ESSENTIAL
QUESTION(S)
ENDURING
UNDERSTANDING

Content
Standard

Essential
Question:

The learner
demonstrates a
deeper
understanding of
how the
knowledge of
narratives
distinctive
features,
elements,
purpose, and
literary devices
as reflected in
British-American
narratives
extends the
habits of openmindedness and
guides one to
live life to its
fullest that can
be clearly
expressed
through writing a
short story

How does
American narrative
form, as a genre,
help in the
understanding of
our countrys
position in the
contemporary
society, and in the
progress of
narrative writing?

Performance

SKILLS

ASSESSMENT
(EVALUATION)
F = Formative
S = Summative

ACTIVITIES/
STRATEGIES

Enduring
Understanding:

AT LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
A.1. Recall in verbal A.1.
10-item A.1. Verbal Drills
recitation the different seatwork
on
the
types and elements elements
of
a A.1.Freytags
of a narrative.
narrative (F)
Pyramid: Complete
the pyramid by
organizing
the
narrative elements
according
to
conceptualization.
AT LEVEL OF PROCESS
A.3. Discuss through A.3. Short narrative
A.3. Small group
individual writing the writing that makes
discussion
and
qualities that classify use of any theme
presentation of the
American literature as found in American
themes
and
a genre from the narratives. (F)
techniques
of
works of well-known
American narrative
American writers.
writing.

Students will
understand that the
themes and
symbolisms
employed in the
American narrative
form help realize
the new world as
envisioned by the
genre, and
innovate the

AT LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING
A.2. Write an essay A.1-3. Quiz #1 (S)
A.2.
Poppletexplaining
the
application: Mind
characteristics
that
Map
on
the
indicate Beowulf as
qualities that mark
an epic hero of
Beowulf as an Epic
Anglo-Saxon
Hero.
literature.

RESOURCES

Serrano, J.B.,
& Lapid, M.G.,
(2014). English
Communicatio
n Arts and
Skills Through
AngloAmerican and
Filipino
Literature.
Quezon City:
Pheonix
Publishing
House, Inc.

Standard:
Every learner
produces a story
book that utilizes
techniques used
in the genre of
British - American
literature.
B. Story Book
1. Story Book
writing:
Subject Verb
Agreement
Predicting
Outcomes
Denotation
and
Connotation
Past Tense
Punctuation
Marks
Capitalization
Interjections

construction of the
narrative form.

AT LEVEL OF PRODUCT OR PERFORMANCE

AT LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE
B.1.Recall the basic
B.1-4.
Identify B.1. Make a chart
rules of subject verb
errors in sample to present the past
agreement.
sentences. (F)
tense
form
of
verbs.
B.2. Identify details
that give way to
B. 2. Rush Writing:
predicting outcomes
Write a narrative in
in situations.
a minute.
B.2.
Identify
the
denotative
and
connotative meaning
of
words
in
a
narrative excerpt.
B.3. Explain when to
use the past tense of
a verb.
B.4. Identify misused
punctuation
marks
and capitalization.
AT
B.2. Answer grammar
drills that require the
student to find errors

LEVEL OF PROCESS
B.2. Rewrite
B.2. Written drills
sentences
on Capitalization
correcting subject- and
Punctuation

in sample sentences.

verb errors.(S)

Marks.

B.2. Provide through

graded exercises the
appropriate
subject
verb agreement.

B.2. Incorrect
Sentences: Write a
paragraph containing
subject-verb errors to
be corrected by a
classmate. (F)

B.2. Written drills

on subject verb
agreement.

B.2.Place
appropriate
punctuation marks
in sample
sentences.(F)
B.2. Rewrite
sentences using
the rules of proper
capitalization.(S)
AT LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING
B.1. Construct a story B.1-2. Quiz #2 (S)
B.1. Play Like
book inspired by their
Hemingway: Write
own
original B.2. 10-item seatwork a
short
story
narrative.
connotation
and similar to his For
denotation. (F)
Sale, Baby Shoes,
Never Worn
B.1.
Concept
mapping
on
a
narrative selection.
AT LEVEL OF
B.2.Construct
a
story book utilizing
the distinct themes
employed
in
American narratives
and
the
lessons

PRODUCT OR PERFORMANCE
B.2. Project: Story
B.2. Construct
book utilizing themes a plot sequence,
and techniques found scene
details,
in American
and
character
narratives. (S)
sketch of their
own short story.

subject
verb
agreement,
past
tense, capitalization,
punctuation
marks,
and interjections.

GRASPS:
You
are
an
aspiring
story
book writer and
your goal is to
write a story book
for children that
will be published
for
children
in
foster homes and
child development
agencies.
Your
story book needs
to be educational
and
bear
good
principles for the
children who read
your
material.
Your work must
meet
the
standards and will
be graded with a
rubric.