8th+English+Map+Quarter+4

The Big Idea: || Skills  || Activities || Assessment || RL.8.7 || Literary Text: American Romantics and the American Realists || * 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 || **Summative Assessment**: Multiple Choice Test with Extended Response (End of Quarter exam given cooperatively with Social Studies teacher) || 2. Information seeking strategies 3. Location and Access 4. Use of information 5. Sythesis 6. Evaluation || **Summative Assessment**: Multidisciplinary Project Using the technology skills, content knowledge, writing skills and speaking skills learned throughout the year students will work as a team to create a multimodal and multidisciplinary project that will be presented to the student body that displays their mastery of the standards. ||
 * Standards || Content
 * 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
 * Compare film or live production to text || Read aloud in class a play: //Lincoln in Illinois, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A Raisin in the Sun// || **Summative Assessment**: Write a Screen Play ||
 * RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.5. RI.8.6, RI.8.7 || Non-Fiction Text || * Cite textual evidence
 * 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 || Read:
 * W.8.4, W.8.5, W.8.6, w.8.7, W.8.9, w.8.10 || Writing a Multimodal Composition || * Development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience
 * Planning, editing, revising
 * Use technology to produce and publish writing
 * collaboration || 1. Task Definition
 * SL.8.1, SL.8.5, SL.8.6 || Speaking and Listening || * Engage in collaborative discussions
 * 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 || * Peer Revision Groups
 * Impromptu Speeches
 * Listening Activities: Brain games || Group Presentation (See Rubric) ||
 * 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 || PRM Text: Lesson 14 and 15 || **Formative Assessment**: Unit Seven practice test ||