1 st Term Objectives

School Year: 2022-2023 Teacher: María Guadalupe Martin Torres

Months: September-October-November
English - 9th Grade

PART/UNITS TOPICS PAGES OBJECTIVES

FOCUS ON GRAMMAR
Unit 1: The Focus on To recognize and read an author’s attitude in an article about technology
 Present time To identify main points in a conversation about identity theft
Digital World Grammar To participate in discussions about technology, expressing opinions, agreeing and
Unit 2:  Past time; would; used to
pages disagreeing
Intercultural  Future time: plans; To write a five-paragraph essay about the benefits of an electronic device
4-157 To identify past events in an article and a news broadcast
Marriage predictions; speculations
 Modals to express degrees To write an essay about a past experience
Unit 3: Travel To identify main points about travel in an article and in a conversation
of necessity; lack of To write an essay about future goals and aspirations
PART 2 necessity To recognize an author’s attitude in an article about cultural differences
 Modals to express degrees To identify suggestions made in conversations
Unit 4: Cultural To discuss cultural differences and correct behavior in different cultures
Differences of certainty To write an essay about past situations that should have been handled differently
Unit 5:  Passives in the present, To identify an author’s attitude in an academic article
past, and future To identify main ideas and supporting details in an academic discussion
Mysteries To discuss possible explanations for various mysterious events
 Passive causative To write an essay about mystery
PART 3  Passive for situations, To identify main ideas and details in a narrative
Unit 6: Crime states, and reporting ideas, To identify key details in an interview
beliefs, and opinions To discuss crime stories and speculate about possible solutions
Unit 7: Legends To write an essay about crime
and Myths  Gerunds as subjects, objects, To identify the meaning of key concepts in an academic article
and complements To identify events in a news broadcast
 Infinitives as subjects and To participate in discussions on academic topics, expressing and supporting opinions
PART 4 with details
objects in the simple, past,
Unit 8: To write an essay about a legend or myth
and passive forms
Friendship To identify key concepts in an article and in a recorded news bulletin
Unit 9: To identify key details in a telephone conversation
To talk about personal interests, likes, and dislikes
Procrastination To discuss the topic of friendship, expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing
To write an essay describing a close friendship
To conduct an interview and report answers to the group
To discuss the topic of procrastination, expressing opinions, agreeing and
disagreeing
To write an essay describing a personal experience
 SCIENCE BITS
Lif e Sciences: Putting Things in the Right Order Engage Classifying Living Organisms and grouping them into different categories based on
Diversity of Lif e Many Ways of Classif ying Explore their categories.
Classif ication of Living Organisms Explain 1
Viruses: A Causes Apart Explain 2

Physics: A Race Winner Engage Bring the students’ prior knowledge on distance, time and speed into play. Develop the
Motion and Four Motions Explore rigorous concept of (average) speed from the intuitive idea of speed of an object in motion.
Apply the concepts of trajectory, distance, time, and speed to the students’ everyday context.
Speed Introduction to the Concept of Speed Explain
Home to School Elaborate

Chemistry: Matter or No Matter? Engage

Reflect on and ask questions about the material or nonmaterial nature of the objects and
Matter Is Air Made of Matter? Explore
Matter and Its Properties Explain 1 phenomena around us. Pose researchable questions and propose hypotheses about the
Materials and the Environment Explain 2 material nature of air.

VOCABULARY

Focus on
Grammar
access, associate(with), do without, downside, exposure, origin, put things in perspective, undeniably; acknowledge, ethnic, eventually,
UNITS furthermore, priority, rely, sustain, unique; acquire, chart your own course; excruciatingly, hectic, inevitable, maximize, minimize, out of
1-3 whack

UNITS
4,5
albeit, colleague, etiquette, gracious, occur, odd, overall, reciprocate; cohort, debris, hypothesize, potential, specification, stem from; theory

UNITS
6,7
diminish, equip(with); inadvertently, notwithstanding, presumably, proceed(to); recover, reveal; devote, focal, obtain, participation,
practitioner, predominate, repulsive, ritual

abandon, coincide, compatible, context, likewise, naïve, seek, vulnerable; connotation, illustrate, motivate, scenario, straightforward,
UNITS
8,9 syndrome, widespread

Science Bits classifying, evolution, Five-Kingdom System, natural classification, phylogenetic, phylogenetic classification, species, taxon, taxonomy, Three-
Diversity of Life Domain System
Motion & Speed displacement, distance, motion, speed, time, trajectory
Matter Characteristic property, chemical change, density, gas, heterogeneous mixture, homogeneous mixture, liquid, mass, matter, mixture, pure
substance, recycle, reduce, reuse, solid, substance, volume