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.8.5 |
Students will write narratives to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well structured event sequences. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
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Standard(s) |
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LA.8.5.1 |
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.8.5.2 |
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. |
8.RI.2 |
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LA.8.5.3 |
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, showing relationships, 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.8.5.4 |
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.8.5.5 |
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.8.5.6 |
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
8.W.9 |
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LA.8.5.7 |
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. |
8.L.1 |
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LA.8.5.8 |
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. |
8.L.2 |
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LA.8.5.9 |
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. |
8.L.6 |
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Academic Vocabulary: evidence, prose, narrative |
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Content Vocabulary: journalism, context, deadline, gracenote, analogy, allusion |