SELECTION SELECTION SELECTION SELECTION SELECTION Anchor Text Anchor Text Anchor Text Anchor Text Anchor Text Uncle Marcos from The Marcos from The House Uncle Marcos from The Uncle Marcos from The To Fly from Space Chronicles House of the Spirits of the Spirits House of the Spirits House of the Spirits Neil deGrasse Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Isabel Allende SE p 460 SE p 461 SE p 462 SE p 463 SE pp 464-471 LANGUAGE LANGUAGE EFFECTIVE EXPRESSION EFFECTIVE EXPRESSION MAKING MEANING DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT Writing to Sources: Speaking and Listening: Concept Vocabulary Concept Vocabulary Conventions: Subject Critical Review Class Discussion enable; foresight; prescient; Students complete activities Complements Students write a critical Students will discuss how the myopic; naiveté; seminal related to the Concept Students identify predicate review supporting your episode involving Uncle Vocabulary words: nouns, pronouns, or understanding of the Marcos and his mechanical Read decipher; contraption; adjectives in sentences. character of Uncle Marcos. bird draws on themes from Students Notice, Annotate, ingenuity; invincible; Conventions: Subject Writing to Sources: Critical the Greek myth of Icarus. Connect, Respond as they newfangled; improvisations Complements Review Speaking and Listening: read the selection the first Conventions: Subject Writing to Sources: Critical Class Discussion time. Word Study: Latin Suffix: Complements (RP) Review (RP) Speaking and Listening: First-Read Guide: Nonfiction -ity Class Discussion (RP) Concept Vocabulary and STANDARDS STANDARDS Read the Selection Word Study L.8.1; PII.3; PII.4 W.6.1.b; W.6.1.c Evidence Log Selection Audio Word Study: Latin Suffix: Students add notes and To Fly: Accessible Leveled -ity (RP) evidence that will be used to Text inform the Word Network Assessment. Comprehension Check Students add new words to Students complete their Word Network as they SELECTION TEST comprehension questions. read texts in the unit. Selection Test: Uncle Marcos To Fly: First Read Extension Questions STANDARDS STANDARDS L.8.4.b RL.8.9; SL.6.1.a; SL.6.1.b Research to Clarify Students research one unfamiliar detail from the text. Research to Explore Students choose something that interests them from the text and formulate a research question. STANDARDS RI.6.10; PI.6; PI.8
SELECTION Anchor Text Uncle Marcos from The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende SE p 460 SELECTION Anchor Text Marcos from The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende SE p 461 SELECTION Anchor Text Uncle Marcos from The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende SE p 462 SELECTION Anchor Text Uncle Marcos from The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende SE p 463 SELECTION Anchor Text To Fly from Space Chronicles Neil deGrasse SE pp 464-471 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Concept Vocabulary Students complete activities related to the Concept Vocabulary words: decipher; contraption; ingenuity; invincible; newfangled; improvisations Word Study: Latin Suffix: -ity Concept Vocabulary and Word Study Word Study: Latin Suffix: -ity (RP) Word Network Students add new words to their Word Network as they read texts in the unit. STANDARDS L.8.4.b LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Conventions: Subject Complements Students identify predicate nouns, pronouns, or adjectives in sentences. Conventions: Subject Complements Conventions: Subject Complements (RP) STANDARDS L.8.1; PII.3; PII.4 EFFECTIVE EXPRESSION Writing to Sources: Critical Review Students write a critical review supporting your understanding of the character of Uncle Marcos. Writing to Sources: Critical Review Writing to Sources: Critical Review (RP) STANDARDS W.6.1.b; W.6.1.c EFFECTIVE EXPRESSION Speaking and Listening: Class Discussion Students will discuss how the episode involving Uncle Marcos and his mechanical bird draws on themes from the Greek myth of Icarus. Speaking and Listening: Class Discussion Speaking and Listening: Class Discussion (RP) Evidence Log Students add notes and evidence that will be used to inform the Assessment. SELECTION TEST Selection Test: Uncle Marcos STANDARDS RL.8.9; SL.6.1.a; SL.6.1.b MAKING MEANING Concept Vocabulary enable; foresight; prescient; myopic; naiveté; seminal Read Students Notice, Annotate, Connect, Respond as they read the selection the first time. First-Read Guide: Nonfiction Read the Selection Selection Audio To Fly: Accessible Leveled Text Comprehension Check Students complete comprehension questions. To Fly: First Read Extension Questions Research to Clarify Students research one unfamiliar detail from the text. Research to Explore Students choose something that interests them from the text and formulate a research question. STANDARDS RI.6.10; PI.6; PI.8