Week of September 3-6: Essential question: Does technology improve or control our lives?, watch a TED Talk about bionics and complete the graphic organizer, learn about sentence structure, review opinion writing and create your own paper about bionics.
Week of August 26-30: Essential question: Does technology improve or control our lives?, Read: Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?, review vocabulary, use Notice and Note to annotate the text, read articles on NewsELA about bionics and start writing an essay.
Week of August 19-23: Essential question: Does technology improve or control our lives?, Read: The Brave Little Toaster, review vocabulary, review plot and how a characters actions are motivated by the plot
Week of August 13-16: Back to school expectations and procedures. We will be developing our oral language skills through listening and speaking. We will create a class motto to use for the year. Friday we will be creating a graphic t-shirt image that tells all about you!
Week of August 26-30: Essential question: Does technology improve or control our lives?, Read: Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?, review vocabulary, use Notice and Note to annotate the text, read articles on NewsELA about bionics and start writing an essay.
Week of August 19-23: Essential question: Does technology improve or control our lives?, Read: The Brave Little Toaster, review vocabulary, review plot and how a characters actions are motivated by the plot
Week of August 13-16: Back to school expectations and procedures. We will be developing our oral language skills through listening and speaking. We will create a class motto to use for the year. Friday we will be creating a graphic t-shirt image that tells all about you!
8th Grade Year at a Glance:
First Semester: Second Semester:
1st Nine Weeks: 3rd Nine Weeks:
Unit 1: Fundamentals of Communication Unit 4: Rhetorically Analyzing and Composing Argumentative
Unit 2A: Analyzing and Composing Literary/Narrative Texts
Nonfiction and Fiction Unit 5: Interpretation and Response Across Genres
2nd Nine Weeks:
Unit 2B: Analyzing and Composing Literary Texts: 4th Nine Weeks:
Poetry and Drama Unit 5: Interpretation and Response Across Genres (continued)
Unit 3: Analyzing and Composing Informational Text Unit 6: Research Based Synthesis, Creation, and Innovation
First Semester: Second Semester:
1st Nine Weeks: 3rd Nine Weeks:
Unit 1: Fundamentals of Communication Unit 4: Rhetorically Analyzing and Composing Argumentative
Unit 2A: Analyzing and Composing Literary/Narrative Texts
Nonfiction and Fiction Unit 5: Interpretation and Response Across Genres
2nd Nine Weeks:
Unit 2B: Analyzing and Composing Literary Texts: 4th Nine Weeks:
Poetry and Drama Unit 5: Interpretation and Response Across Genres (continued)
Unit 3: Analyzing and Composing Informational Text Unit 6: Research Based Synthesis, Creation, and Innovation
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