English · English 9
SEL activities for HMH Collections Grade 9
19 RoseThread Connect activities matched to the chapters of HMH Collections Grade 9 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Each one teaches the chapter's content and builds one Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skill in about 20 minutes.
We look only at each book's table of contents (chapter titles and topics) to suggest activities that fit the flow of your course. We don't use or reproduce any textbook content, and your edition's chapter order may differ slightly. RoseThread Connect is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by these publishers.
Collection 1: Finding Common Ground
- Through Another's Eyes Social awareness · English 9Students analyze a point of view or cultural experience reflected in literature from outside the United States.
- Disagree Without Disrespect Relationship skills · English 9Students propel discussions by posing questions, responding to diverse perspectives, and qualifying their views.
- Discussion Norms We Build Relationship skills · English 9Students prepare for discussion by referring to evidence and work with peers to set rules for collegial discussion.
- Reading Characters, Reading People Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a complex character develops and what motivates their choices.
Collection 2: The Struggle for Freedom
- Rights and Responsibilities Social awareness · English 9Students analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance and how they address related themes.
- Whose Voice Is Missing? Social awareness · English 9Students analyze whose perspective a text includes and whose is missing, and how that shapes meaning.
- Listening to Speeches Social awareness · English 9Students evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
- How Words Move Us Responsible decision-making · English 9Students determine an author's purpose and analyze how rhetoric advances it.
- Speaking Up Self-management · English 9Students present a claim and evidence clearly, with a logical line of reasoning and appropriate eye contact and volume.
Collection 3: The Bonds Between Us
- Reading Characters, Reading People Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a complex character develops and what motivates their choices.
- Grief, Hope, and Literature Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a theme about loss and hope develops and is refined by specific details.
- Disagree Without Disrespect Relationship skills · English 9Students propel discussions by posing questions, responding to diverse perspectives, and qualifying their views.
Collection 4: Sweet Sorrow
- Impulsive Choices on Stage Responsible decision-making · English 9Students analyze how a character's impulsive decisions drive the plot and create dramatic irony.
- Torn Between Two Choices Responsible decision-making · English 9Students analyze a character's internal conflict and how it advances the plot.
- Same Story, New Medium Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a scene is represented in two different mediums and what each emphasizes or leaves out.
- Stories Built on Stories Self-awareness · English 9Students analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material from an earlier work.
- Poetry of Feeling Self-awareness · English 9Students analyze the cumulative impact of word choices on a poem's meaning and tone.
Collection 5: A Matter of Life or Death
- Grief, Hope, and Literature Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a theme about loss and hope develops and is refined by specific details.
- A Poem of Resilience Self-management · English 9Students write a short poem using precise words, imagery, and a shift.
- Building Tension Self-management · English 9Students analyze how an author's choices about structure and time create tension and suspense.
- Writing Through Conflict Relationship skills · English 9Students write a short narrative scene with a conflict, dialogue, and a reflective resolution.
- Torn Between Two Choices Responsible decision-making · English 9Students analyze a character's internal conflict and how it advances the plot.
Collection 6: Heroes and Quests
- Stories Built on Stories Self-awareness · English 9Students analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material from an earlier work.
- Same Story, New Medium Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a scene is represented in two different mediums and what each emphasizes or leaves out.
- What the Story Teaches Self-awareness · English 9Students determine a theme and analyze how it develops over the course of a text.
- Reading Characters, Reading People Social awareness · English 9Students analyze how a complex character develops and what motivates their choices.
RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.