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Grade 9 English (ENL1W) 📚

Ontario Curriculum (2023) · TDSB · Curated Video Lessons

Grade 9 English (ENL1W) is Ontario's destreamed English course. It develops students' skills in reading, writing, oral communication, and media literacy across a range of text types. This guide focuses on the four most critical skill areas: literary device analysis, persuasive writing, media literacy, and close reading — all core expectations of ENL1W.

Reading – Literary Analysis

📖 Literary Devices for Grade 9

Literary devices are the tools authors use to create meaning, establish tone, and engage readers. ENL1W students analyze devices including simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, irony, foreshadowing, and symbolism across literary texts. This lesson provides a clear, accessible introduction to the essential literary devices Grade 9 students encounter in short stories, poetry, and novel study.

  • Simile & Metaphor
  • Imagery
  • Irony
  • Symbolism

Source: Grade 9 ELA

Language – Literary Devices

✏️ 20 Literary Devices You Need to Know

This comprehensive video covers 20 essential literary and rhetorical devices that appear across ENL1W texts and assessments — including allegory, allusion, anaphora, chiasmus, dramatic irony, extended metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, and more. Knowing these devices by name and function is essential for ENL1W literary analysis tasks, reading response, and essay writing.

  • Allusion
  • Irony Types
  • Personification
  • Hyperbole

Source: English Literature Series

Writing – Persuasive

🖊️ Persuasive Writing for Grade 9

Writing to persuade is a key competency in ENL1W. Students write persuasive texts — opinion pieces, arguments, letters to the editor — that present a clear position, build an evidence-based argument, address counterarguments, and use rhetorical strategies to persuade their audience. This Grade 7/8 and Grade 9 ELA lesson walks through the complete structure and skills needed for persuasive writing.

  • Thesis Statement
  • Evidence
  • Counterargument
  • Rhetorical Strategies

Source: ELA Writing Series

Media Literacy

📱 Media Literacy & Figurative Language

ENL1W's media literacy strand asks students to analyze, evaluate, and create media texts — including advertisements, social media, films, podcasts, and news. This lesson connects figurative language to media analysis, showing how personification, onomatopoeia, simile, and metaphor operate across different media forms to shape audience response and construct meaning — a core expectation in ENL1W's media literacy strand.

  • Media Analysis
  • Figurative Language
  • Critical Literacy
  • Audience & Purpose

Source: ESL Literary Devices

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