Eighth Grade Language Arts
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FALL
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WINTER |
SPRING |
Genre |
Narrative
Myth
Historical
Letters
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Short Stories
Historical fiction
Nonfiction
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Memoir
Historical fiction
Poetry
Speeches
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Composition |
Narrative
Persuasive
Literary analysis
Expository
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Literary analysis
Expository
Narrative
Persuasive
Creative
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Literary analysis Expository
Narrative
Creative
Oratory
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Mechanics |
Vocabulary Workshop
Daily GRAMS
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Vocabulary Workshop
Daily GRAMS
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Vocabulary Workshop Daily GRAMS
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Skills |
Computer research
Developing paragraphs and organizing compositions
- descriptive
- narrative
- persuasive
- literary response
Voice
Style
Interviewing
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Library research
Computer research
Developing paragraphs and compositions
- research report - expository essay
- journalism
- literary response
- thesis construction
- creative writing
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Library research Computer research Developing paragraphs and compositions
- biography
- literary response
- speech: formal and informal
- creative writing
Speech presentation
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Portfolio Artifacts |
Historical Explorer Narrative
The Scarlet Letter Literary analysis
Mother Profile
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National History Day Project
Literary Analysis
Short Story
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Modernism Travel Narrative
Poetry
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Integrated Units |
SS: Explorers of the Americas
SS/Sci: Salem Witch Trials
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SS: National History Day
Art: Short Stories
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Art/SS: Modernism
ALL: Urban Growth
SS: Travel Writing
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Field Trips |
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Texts |
Selected Historical Narratives
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Jackson The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, ed. Oates
101 Great American Poems
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Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
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