Schedule of Student Activities

(Grade 9 English)
Week 1
The Complete Sentence
Sentence Fragments
Run-on Sentences

K-W-L Chart
Drill Exercises
Reading Comprehension
(feature article about modernday heroes)

Narrative Writing:
That Moment When I Saved The
Day
Students create short stories that
follow them as heroes. Sentence
errors have to be avoided.

Discussion:
Old English Literature
(Beowulf)
Week 2
Word, Phrase, and
Clause Modifiers
Parallelism
Coordination

Concept Map/Brainstorming
Drill Exercises
Video Clips: PiliPinas Debates
Literary Discussion:
Old English Literature
(The Death of King Arthur ;
Ballads)

Week 3
Direct and Indirect
Speech
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun-Antecedent
Agreement

2-minute Impromptu: What is

Love?
Think-Pair-Share
Freedom Wall
Drill Exercises
Literary Discussion:
English Literature in the
Renaissance (Shakespearean
Sonnets; Romeo and Juliet)

Week 4
Elements of a Poem
(persona, addressee,
mood, imagery, symbolic
language, figurative
language, and theme)
Types of Independent
Paragraph (compare and
contrast, process, and
cause-effect)
Week 5
Infinitive Phrase
Participial Phrase
Gerund Phrase

Poem Analysis/Interpretation
Outlining a Paragraph
Flow Chart
Paragraph Writing Exercises
Game: Guess this Commercial
Literary Discussion:
English Literature (On His
Blindness; I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud)
Drill Exercises
Reading Comprehension (news
article about teenage death)
Literary Discussion:
American Literature (The Cask
of Amontillado; Annabel Lee)

Descriptive Writing:
My Next Philippine President
Students list down their criteria for
the next president of the country.
They must observe parallel
structures in their writing output.

Poem-writing:
Sonnets of Love and
Friendship
Students write a poem about love or
friendship following the
Shakespearean rhyming scheme.
Students must include direct and/or
indirect speeches in his/her speech.

Paragraph-Writing:
Print Advertisement
Students pretend to be selling
something: a house, a car, or a
wristwatch. They should write an
independent paragraph advertising
the item.

Creative Writing:
Song Composition
Students write lyrics to the
soundtrack of the upcoming movie
Annabel Lee. Different phrases
must be correctly used in the
output.

Week 6
Past Perfect Tense
Present Perfect Tense
Future Perfect Tense

Drill Exercises
Role-playing

Literary Discussion:
Philippine Literature in English
(We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers)

Writing:
My Life in a Nutshell
Students write a comprehensive
three-paragraph narrative of their
achievements, failures, aspirations,
etc. Correct usage of perfect tenses
has to be observed.