English Language Arts Grade 8 Year Plan Sample Time Frame and Context, Theme, and Comprehend and Respond Focus Compose and Create Focus Assess and Reflect Resources Division ELA Unit Type Big Ideas Focus Assessments September Context: CR8.1 View, Personal listen to, read, CC8.1 Create various visual, oral, AR8.1 Use – October (approx. 8 and comprehend, Philosophical and respond to a written, and multimedia texts that information gathered weeks) variety of texts that address explore identity. in self-assessment Theme: Becoming identity. and teacher’s Multi-genre Myself CC8.2 Create and present a group assessment to Thematic CR8.2 Select and use appropriate inquiry project related to a topic, develop and work on Big Idea: strategies to construct meaning theme, or issue studied in English for improving What can we before, during, and after viewing, language arts. viewing, listening, celebrate about listening, and reading. reading, representing, ourselves? How can CC8.3 Select and use the speaking, and writing. we CR8.3 discover Use pragmatic, our textual, appropriate strategies to unique syntactic, qualities and communicate meaning before, AR8.2 Appraise own talents? semantic/lexical/morphological, How can we during, and after speaking, writing, and others’ work for use graphophonic, and share our and other cues and other representing activities. clarity, correctness, unique qualities and to construct and to confirm and variety. talents? meaning. How did we CC8.4 Use pragmatic, textual, get to be who we syntactical, CR8.4 View critically and are? semantic/lexical/morphological, demonstrate comprehension of a graphophonic, and other cues and multimedia variety of visual to construct and to to locate and interpret key communicate meaning. messages and details, to develop conclusions, opinions, and CC8.5 Create and present a variety understanding, and to evaluate the of visual and multimedia effectiveness of the text. presentations including an illustrated report, a CR8.5 Listen critically to role play that ends with a tableau, a understand, gather information, dramatization, presentation follow directions, form an opinion, software, a newscast with adequate and analyze oral presentations for detail, clarity, and organization to diverse opinions, presenter’s of explain, to persuade, and to view, values, and biases, entertain. stereotypes, or prejudices.
English Language Arts Grade 8 Year Plan Sample Time Frame and Unit Type Context, Theme, and Big Ideas Comprehend and Respond Focus Compose and Create Focus Assess and Reflect Focus Resources Division ELA Assessments September – October (approx. 8 weeks) Multi-genre Thematic Context: Personal and Philosophical Theme: Becoming Myself Big Idea: What can we celebrate about ourselves? How can we discover our unique qualities and talents? How can we use and share our unique qualities and talents? How did we get to be who we are? CR8.1 View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity. CR8.2 Select and use appropriate strategies to construct meaning before, during, and after viewing, listening, and reading. CR8.3 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactic, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and to confirm meaning. CR8.4 View critically and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of visual and multimedia to locate and interpret key messages and details, to develop conclusions, opinions, and understanding, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the text. CR8.5 Listen critically to understand, gather information, follow directions, form an opinion, and analyze oral presentations for diverse opinions, presenter’s of view, values, and biases, stereotypes, or prejudices. CC8.1 Create various visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts that explore identity. CC8.2 Create and present a group inquiry project related to a topic, theme, or issue studied in English language arts. CC8.3 Select and use the appropriate strategies to communicate meaning before, during, and after speaking, writing, and other representing activities. CC8.4 Use pragmatic, textual, syntactical, semantic/lexical/morphological, graphophonic, and other cues to construct and to communicate meaning. CC8.5 Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations including an illustrated report, a role play that ends with a tableau, a dramatization, presentation software, a newscast with adequate detail, clarity, and organization to explain, to persuade, and to entertain. AR8.1 Use information gathered in self-assessment and teacher’s assessment to develop and work on for improving viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing. AR8.2 Appraise own and others’ work for clarity, correctness, and variety.
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