English Language Arts Curriculum
8th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will debate significant global issues through comparing, contrasting, and presenting solutions via various media sources and fiction/nonfiction text. |
Outcomes and Components:
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LA.8.10 |
Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing grade level texts. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
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LA.8.10.1 |
Write a narrative by establishing context and point of view, organizing events, using dialogue to develop events or characters, including transition words to signal time shifts, utilizing precise words and phrases to capture action, and sensory words to convey experiences. Provide a conclusion that reflects on narrated events. |
8.W.3a 8.W.3b 8.W.3c 8.W.3d 8.W.3e |
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LA.8.10.2 |
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
8.W.4 |
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LA.8.10.3 |
Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. |
8.W.7 |
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LA.8.10.4 |
Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general, and their function in particular sentences. |
8.L.1a |
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LA.8.10.5 |
Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice. |
8.L.1b |
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Academic Vocabulary: biography, autobiography, sensory language, figurative language |
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Content Vocabulary: chronology, achievement, legacy, affirmation |