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.8.7 |
Students will use mentor texts and peer collaboration in order to create narrative writing. |
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Pacing Instruct/ Assess |
Component Code |
Component |
Standard(s) |
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LA.8.7.1 |
Read grade level books to compare and contrast the experience of what they read to what they can listen or watch. Evaluate choices made by the directors or actors. |
8.RL.7 8.RL.10 |
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LA.8.7.2 |
Compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres and how their approaches create effects such as suspense or humor. Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on myths, the Bible, or other classic tales. |
8.RL.6 8.RL.9 |
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LA.8.7.3 |
Produce a real or imagined narrative text using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences to compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts, and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. |
8.W.3 8.RL.5 |
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LA.8.7.4 |
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. |
8.W.5 |
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LA.8.7.5 |
Use Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to meaning; |
8.L.4b |
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LA.8.7.6 |
Use grade appropriate academic and content-specific words and phrases |
8.L.6 |
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Academic Vocabulary: point-of-view, genre, theme, narrative, sequence, compare/contrast |
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Content Vocabulary: epic, charity, compulsive, commemorative, paranoia, antagonistic, individualism, nocturnal, disdain, voluptuous, perpetual, vile, predicament, loneliness, fixated, congeal, intimate, incongruous, senile |