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RL.8.9 || Literary Text: || * Cite textual Evidence “Dare to be Dickinson” “I Hear BLMS Singing” RI.8.8, RI.8.9 || Non-Fiction Text || * Cite textual evidence Letters written by Civil War Soldiers Northern Newspaper reports of the war versus Southern Newspaper reports. Articles from “The Atlantic Monthly” (One of Dickinson’s favorites) The Drumbeat W.8.1, W8.8 || Argumentative Writing || * Development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience 2. Information seeking strategies 3. Location and Access 4. Use of information 5. Sythesis 6. Evaluation For Example: Is war necessary? Should all American’s have the right to own guns? Should public schools include prayer and the celebration of holidays into their school day? || SL.8.3 SL.8.4 || Speaking and Listening || * Engage in collaborative discussions
 * Standards || Content || Skills  ||  Activities  || Assessment ||
 * RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL8.4, RL.8.5, RL.8.6,
 * Draw inferences
 * Determine theme
 * Analyze plot advancement
 * Figurative and Connotative meaning
 * Compare and Contrast structure
 * Analyze Point of View
 * Analyze modern use of allusions to myth, religion etc. || * Read: Read: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain
 * Round Robin Poetry Reading
 * Vocabulary: Free Verse, Dark Romantic, Romantics, Realist, Satire, Slant Rhyme, Metaphor, Simile, personification, Alliteration, onomatopoeia || Video Project (See attached Rubric) ||
 * RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.5. RI.8.6, RI.8.7
 * Analyze texts explicit meaning
 * Determine Central idea
 * Analyze text development
 * Determine relationship of supporting details to main idea
 * Objective summary
 * Comparisons, analogies and categories
 * Analyze word choice
 * Understand figurative, connotative and technical meanings
 * Allusions
 * structure of a paragraph
 * Development and refining of key concepts
 * Point of View
 * Purpose
 * Conflicting points of view
 * Evaluate uses of different mediums
 * Evaluate argument
 * Compare texts with different points of view || * Read:
 * PRM Text: Lesson 10 and 11 || **Formative Assessment**: PMR Text Unit five Practice Test ||
 * W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.6, w.8.7, W.89, W.8.10,
 * Planning, editing, revising
 * Use technology to produce and publish writing
 * Collaboration
 * Write argument
 * Introduce claims from opposing view points
 * Organize reasons and evidence logically
 * Use accurate and credible sources
 * Clarify relationships among claims, counter claims, reasons and evidence
 * Formal style
 * Concluding statement || 1. Task Definition
 * PRM Text: Argumentative Writing P. 148 || **Summative Assessment**: Have students choose a topic that is relevant to the study of early American History but has implications today.
 * SL.8.1, SL.8.5, SL.8.6
 * Expressing ideas clearly
 * Use researched material during discussions
 * Set goals
 * Meet deadlines
 * Follow discussion protocol
 * Pose relevant questions
 * Respond to others
 * Qualify and justify views
 * Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations
 * Adapt speech to audience and purpose
 * Delineate a speakers arguments and claims
 * Use of relevant evidence, valid reasoning and well chosen detail
 * Eye contact, volume and pronunciation || * Impromptu Speeches
 * Listening Exercises: Brain Games || Have two students choose the same topic for their argumentative paper and then debate. ||
 * L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.3, L.8.4, L.8.5, L.8.6 || Language || * Use of standard English in writing and speaking
 * Explain the function of verbals ( Gerunds, participles and infinitives
 * Use verbs in passive and active voice
 * Use verbs in indicative, imperative, interrogative conditional and subjunctive mood
 * Use correct Capitalization, punctuation and spelling
 * Use coma, ellipsis and dash
 * Use verbs in the conditional and subjunctive mood
 * Determine the meaning of a word by using a range of strategies
 * Using context clues
 * Use common Greek and Latin affixes and roots to understand meaning
 * Know how to use dictionaries, glossaries and thesauruses to clarify meaning, determine pronunciation and part of speech
 * Figurative language
 * Figures of speech
 * Use grade appropriate vocabulary || * Deep Revision Techniques: Write a letter from one source to another, Write a poem or an ode to your topic, Write a section in first person point of view, Word Funeral, Graph it out.
 * PRM Text: Lesson 12 and 13 || Use of appropriate English will be assessed through writing and speaking activities and assessments.
 * Formative Assessment**: PRM Text Unit 6 Practice Test ||