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English 8

Course Description

The plans for this course will be based off of the standards found here: https://alex.state.al.us/standardAll.php?grade=8&subject=ELA2015&summary=2.
 
Our first semester novel is Rebound by Kwame Alexander and should be brought to class by August 23rd.
 

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Lesson Plans 9/16-920

Monday
DGP warm up
Lesson 5 Vocabulary - homographs
Discuss The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Distribute Rebound novels
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
 
Tuesday
DGP warm up
Kwame Alexander video clip - "Words of the page onto the stage"
Novel vocabulary pages 1-201 (complete throughout reading the novel)
Begin reading Rebound
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
 
Wednesday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary 5.2 and 5.3
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
 
Thursday
DGP warm up
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Prepare for Friday's vocabulary quiz & bring novel daily
 
Friday
DGP warm up
Lesson 5 Vocabulary Quiz
Assign poem from the novel to perform
Continue reading w/ comprehension questions
HW: Bring novel daily
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.8.2]
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.8.4]
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]

Lesson Plans 9/9-13

Monday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary 4.2 and 4.3
Creative Writing - rules & write
HW: Vocab. quiz Friday
 
Tuesday
DGP warm up
Finish creative writing (due today)
HW: Vocab. quiz Friday
 
Wednesday
DGP warm up
Share creative writing stories
HW: Vocab. quiz Friday
 
Thursday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary review
Journal entry
HW: Vocab. quiz Friday
 
Friday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary Lesson 4 Quiz
Finish journal entry
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.8.2]
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.8.4]
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. [W.8.3]
Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]
 

Lesson Plans 9/3-9/6

Monday
No School
 
Tuesday
Scantron Performance Series Testing
 
Wednesday
DGP warm up (Monday & Tuesday's work)
Vocabulary Lesson 4 (We will work on this list next week, too.)
Finish up narrative writing station work
 
Thursday
DGP warm up (Wednesday & Thursday's work)
Creative Writing Contest
-brainstorming
-narrative leads
-sensory details
-figurative language
 
Friday
DGP warm up
Creative Writing Contest writing
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.8.4]
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. [W.8.3]

Lesson Plans 8/26-8/30

Monday
DGP warm ups
Vocabulary Lesson 3
Finish idiom illustration
HW: Vocab. Lesson 3 quiz Friday
 
Tuesday
DGP warm ups
Vocab. 3.2 and 3.3
Journal entry
HW: Vocab. Lesson 3 quiz Friday
 
Wednesday
DGP warm ups
Narrative writing stations
HW: Vocab. Lesson 3 quiz Friday
 
Thursday
DGP warm ups
Narrative writing stations
HW: Vocab. Lesson 3 quiz Friday
 
Friday
DGP warm ups
Vocabulary quiz
Narrative writing stations
HW: Vocab. Lesson 3 quiz Friday
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.8.4]
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.8.2]
Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. [W.8.3]

Lesson Plans 8/19-8/23

Monday -
DGP warm up
Stuff envelopes with Letter to Senior Self
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Journal entry
HW: Finish journal entry if needed
 
Tuesday
DGP warm up
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Begin reading "Marigolds" discussing theme throughout
HW: Vocab. Lesson 2 Quiz Friday
 
Wednesday
DGP warm up
Finish reading "Marigolds" while discussing theme
HW: Vocab. Lesson 2 Quiz Friday
 
Thursday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary review
Discuss idioms
Idiom illustration activity
HW: Vocab. Lesson 2 Quiz Friday, Rebound novel due tomorrow
 
Friday
DGP warm up
Lesson 2 Vocabulary Quiz
Idiom illustration activity
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.8.1]
Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. [RL.8.2]
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. [RL.8.4]

Lesson Plans 8/12-8/16

Monday
Daily Grammar Practice warm up
Finish self portrait (a few minutes only)
Vocabulary Lesson 1.1
Letter to Senior Self 
HW: study vocab. - quiz Friday
 
Tuesday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary Lessons 1.2 and 1.3 (partners)
Letter to Senior Self
HW: study vocab. - quiz Friday
 
Wednesday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary review game
Letter to Senior Self
HW: study vocab. - quiz Friday
 
Thursday
DGP warm up
Vocabulary review game
Letter to Senior Self
HW: study vocab. - quiz Friday
 
Friday
DGP warm up (turn in)
Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 1
Finish final copy of Letter to Senior Self (due at end of class)
HW: bring a large manila envelope to class, finish letter if needed, bring novel if needed
 
Standards:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, 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.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.