8th+English+Map+Qtr+2

The Big Idea: || Skills  || Activities || Assessments || W.8.2, W8.8, || Informational 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 SL.8.2 SL.8.4 || Speaking and Listening || * Engage in collaborative discussions
 * Standards || Content
 * RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL8.4, RL.8.5, RL.8.6, || Literary Text: Historical Fiction || * Cite textual Evidence
 * Draw inferences
 * Determine theme
 * Analyze plot advancement
 * Figurative and Connotative meaning
 * Compare and Contrast structure
 * Point of View || * Read: Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
 * Washington Irving
 * Edgar Allen Poe, //The Tell Tale Heart//
 * Longfellow
 * Use art to “show” students the elements of Romanticism
 * Methods: Think-Pair-Share, Graphic organizers, QAR, Symbolic Time line
 * Vocabulary: Romanticism, Dark Romantics, plot, theme, rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, conflict || **Summative Assessment**: Newsletter ||
 * RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.5. RI.8.6, RI.8.7 || Non-Fiction Text: Political Speeches, Papers and Propaganda, Journals, Diaries, personal letters, American Philosophy || * Cite textual evidence
 * Analyze texts explicit meaning
 * Determine Central idea
 * Analyze text development
 * Determine relationship of sup[porting 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 || * Excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau
 * //Declaration of Sentiment// Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * //Ain’t I a woman//? Sojourner Truth
 * Excerpts from //Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas//
 * “The most remarkable Woman of this age” A newspaper article about Harriett Tubman
 * Questions of Slavery, Women’s Place in Society, Manifest Destiny
 * PRM Text: Lesson 6, 7, 8, 9 || **Formative Assessment**: PRM Text: Unit 3 Practice Test. Unit 4 Practice Test
 * Summative Assessment:** Multiple Choice Test with Extended Response (End of Quarter exam given cooperatively with Social Studies teacher) ||
 * W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.6, W.8.7, W.8.9, W.8.10
 * Planning, editing, revising
 * Use technology to produce and publish writing
 * Collaboration
 * Write informative text
 * Organize ideas, concepts and information
 * Use headings
 * Graphics
 * Multimedia
 * Use concrete details and quotations
 * Varies Transitions
 * Formal Style
 * Concluding Statement || 1. Task Definition
 * Informal Writing: Journals, Square ups, Blogs, ticket out the door,
 * RPM Text: Lesson 6 || **Summative Assessment**: Develop a Pathfinder ||
 * 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
 * Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media
 * Evaluate motives
 * Use of relevant evidence, valid reasoning and well chosen detail
 * Eye contact, volume and pronunciation || * Peer Revision Groups ( Second Protocol)
 * Prezi Tutorial and practice
 * Impromptu Speeches
 * Listening Exercises: Brain Games || Presentation of Pathfinder using Prezi. ||
 * 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 || * Sentence Combining
 * Affix Word Wall- cred, ped, man, sirt, mis, mit, port, ject, terra, geo, port, ben, mal (Greek and Latin affixes and roots as appropriate)
 * Mini lessons: The Greedy Apostrophe, Ode to the English Plural, ||  ||