English Language Arts Curriculum
8th Grade
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Students will debate significant global issues through comparing, contrasting, and presenting solutions via various media sources and fiction/nonfiction text. |
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Students will analyze historical events from a personal perspective and evaluate ways society can stand up for its most vulnerable. |
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Students will analyze how an author uses point of view, imagery, and figurative language in order to create tone and mood. |
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Students will analyze a central idea and the supporting ideas of a text in order to write an objective summary, which will lead into the writing of an argumentative piece where students take a stand on a debatable issue. |
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Students will analyze a work of literature and produce a thematic essay. |
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Students will write narratives to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well structured event sequences. |
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Students will evaluate differing claims in order to create a media presentation. |
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Students will use mentor texts and peer collaboration in order to create narrative writing. |
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Students will write an expository essay expressing the main idea and defining key words and phrases found in literary nonfiction. |
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Students will use books or articles on reading level in order to determine how point of view is conveyed. |
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Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing grade level texts. |
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Students will determine the main idea of nonfiction texts by analyzing text evidence and structure. |
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| LA.8.12 | Students will compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres and their approaches to similar themes and topics. | ||