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.8.3 |
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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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
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Standard(s) |
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LA.8.3.1 |
Write arguments and support claim(s) with relevant evidence, acknowledge alternate claims, distinguish claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. Provide a conclusion that supports the argument. |
8.W.1a 8.W.1b 8.W.1e |
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LA.8.3.2 |
Compose words, phrases, and clauses that create cohesion, clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence, and maintain a formal style and tone. |
8.W.1c 8.W.1d |
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LA.8.3.3 |
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Develop and strengthen this argument by planning, editing, and revising. |
8.W.4 8.W.5 |
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LA.8.3.4 |
Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced. |
8.W.9b |
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LA.8.3.5 |
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. |
8.W.10 |
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LA.8.3.6 |
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. |
8.RI.1 |
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LA.8.3.7 |
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas and how a text makes connections among ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. |
8.RI.2 8.RI.3 |
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LA.8.3.8 |
Analyze in detail the structure of a paragraph in a text |
8.RI.5 |
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LA.8.3.9 |
Interpret an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints. | ||
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LA.8.3.10 |
Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation. Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence, and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced. |
8.SL.2 8.SL.3 |
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LA.8.3.11 |
Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice, including the inclusion of verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood. |
8.L.1b 8.L.1c |
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LA.8.3.12 |
Utilize verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects. |
8.L.3a |
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Academic Vocabulary: argument, claim, counterclaim, evidence |
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Content Vocabulary: immigration, emigration, debate, economy |