Subject: Language Arts



Subject: Language Arts GREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS - CURRICULUM MAPPING GRID Grade Level: 8th

 

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Reading Development |Vocabulary (including: antonyms,

Synonyms, homophones, multiple meanings, and context clues

Literal Comprehension

Reading Skill Review

Voc. Strategies

Book Project: Letter |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Story elements/plot

Book Project: Web Page

Poetry |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Main idea/theme

Author’s Purpose

Tone/Mood

Analyzing stories

Book Project:

Web Page |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Point of View

Book Project:

Web Page

  |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Journaling

Symbolism

Allegories

Literary devices in poetry

Book Project: Web Page |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Literary devices in poetry

Analogies

Book Project:

Web Page (update) |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Author’s Point of View

Book Project:

Web Page (update) |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Comprehension Skills

Focus

Book Project:

Web Page (update) |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review

Cont.

Drawing conclusion

Book Project:

Movie Review/Art

Book Project:

Web Page (update) |Vocabulary cont.

Literal Comp. Cont.

Reading Skill Review cont.

Book Project:

Web Page (update)

 

Charleston Web Quest

 

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Writing |Timed writing

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective

Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining

|Personal Narrative

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Thinking Maps

Outlining

Sentence Fragments, Run on Sentences, Complete Sentences

Poetry Contests |6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining

Letter to Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry

Re-writing the ending of a story |Timed Writing

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Expository Essay:

Thinking maps

Outlining

Forged by Fire

Tears of a Tiger Essay

|6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining

Flowers for Algernon Essay

Wizard of Oz essay |6 Traits of Writing

Weekly Timed Writings

Reflective Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining |Timed Writing

Combining sentences w/subordinate clauses and appositives

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Book Project:

Time Line/ Journal |(Book Report)

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Expository Essay

Thinking maps

Outlining

Holocaust Essay |6 Traits of Writing

Persuasive Essay

Reflective Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining

Holocaust Essay |Timed Writing

6 Traits of Writing

Reflective Writing

Expository Essays

Thinking maps

Outlining

Ghosts of Charleston

Project | |Spelling |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson

Spelling Bee |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson |Within Vocabulary Lesson | |Grammar/

Usage/

Mechanics |Capitalization and Punctuation

Parts of Speech

DOL |Parts of Speech

subject, verb ( action and linking), direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, identifying prepositional phrases

DOL |Parts of Speech

Review using excerpts from Edgar Allan Poe pieces

Identifying Prepositional phrases review

DOL |Pronouns (personal, possessive, indefinite, demonstrative, antecedents) using both Writer’s Craft and excerpts from Sharon Draper Novels

DOL |Subject-Verb Agreement using Writer’s Craft and excerpts from The Wizard of Oz

DOL |Sentence Structure (complete sentences, fragments, run-on, simple, compound and complex sentences, punctuation, independent and dependent clauses, sentence building and combining)

DOL |Sentence Structure Review

Using Modifiers (degrees of comparison, prepositional phrases, adjective and adverb clauses, adjective and adverb phrases) DOL |Plurals and Possessives (rules for forming the plural, singular possessive, and plural possessive of nouns)

Terra Nova Review

DOL |Verbs (regular, irregular, principal parts)

Terra Nova Review

DOL |Competency Post Test

DOL | |Research/

Presentation |*Internet Search

Ocean research for poetry composition

Ocean Web quest

Poetry Contest

Presentation of original writing | Talk Show Presentation which includes the following: script writing, group assignments and video presentation

Presentation of original writing |Edgar Allan Poe Web Quest

Presentation of original writing

  | Presentation of original writing |Presentation of original writing

Flowers for Algernon original books |Presentation of original writing | Presentation of original writing |Presentation of original writing |Presentation of original writing |Charleston Web Quest

Presentation of original writing | |Speaking/

Listening |Oral Reading

Socratic Seminar |Talk Show Segment

Oral Reading

Mr. Bill Guest Reader |Oral Reading

Mr. McNabb

Guest Reader

Socratic Seminar |Oral Reading

Forged By Fire News Broadcasts via Internet |Oral Reading |Oral Reading  |Oral Reading

”Miss Lonely Heart” Presentations

“I Have a Dream” Original Speech

“I Have a Dream Too” Recordings via Internet

 Civil Rights Projects (Web Quest)

  | Oral Reading |Oral Reading

 

 

Holocaust Projects |Oral Reading

Mira Kimmelman:

Guest Speaker

Ghosts of “Charleston” Dialogue Presentations

| |Related Literature

  |“My Name”

Star Girl

Selected Ocean Poetry

Pleasure Reading Books required |“Memories of Dating”

“How to Die of Embarrassment”

As You Like It (version designed for middle school readers)

 

Pleasure Reading

Books required |“Lov’d: The Life of

Edgar Allan Poe” play

“Tell-Tale Heart”

“Masque of the Red Death” and “Purloined Letter” (dramatic versions designed for middle school readers) “Bells” (choral reading)

“The Monkey’s Paw” –play version

Advanced Readers: “The Pit and the Pendulum”

Pleasure Reading

Books required |Forged by Fire

Tears of a Tiger

Darkness Before Dawn

  

Pleasure Reading

Books required |Flowers for Algernon

The Wizard of Oz

 

Pleasure Reading

Books required |“On Hope”

“Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored”

 

“Foul Shots”

“Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad”

 

Pleasure Reading

Books required |“A Town Called Rosewood”

“Blankets for the Dead”

“Night Riding with the Klan”

“Untamed Border”

selections from

Us and Them

“I have a Dream”

“The Love Letter”

”The Moustache”

”Checkouts”

”The Burden”

“The Choice”

Pleasure Reading Books Required |“Once Upon a Crime”

  

Pleasure Reading

Books required |Diary of Anne Frank

(the play)

Night

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Echoes From the Holocaust

Tell Them We Remember

I Have Lived a Thousand Years

The Wave

Holocaust Trunk Resources

Pleasure Reading

Books required |Ghosts of Charleston 

  

Pleasure Reading

Books required | |Technology

*All Year |*Web Page Design (book projects)

*Power Point

* quizzes

*AlphaSmarts

Internet Research

Ocean Poetry/Web quest |As You Like It

Power Point Jeopardy |Edgar Allan Poe Web Quest

Edgar Allan Poe JePOEdy game

“Tell-Tale Heart” Film

“The Pit and the Pendulum” Movie and Web Quest |Record Forged by Fire news broadcast using computers and post to the web via teacher’s web page |Wizard of Oz Power Point Jeopardy Game

Charlie (film of Flowers for Algernon)

The Wizard of Oz (film) |Ruby Bridges (film)

The Story of Rosa Parks (film) |Civil Rights Web Quest

Record “I Have a Dream, Too” original student speeches and post to the web via teacher’s web page

“Love Letter” (film) |  |The Wave Movie

Holocaust Web Quest

Alpha Smarts |Ghosts of Charleston Web posting

Charleston Web Quest | |Assessment

*All Year |*DOL Re-writes

*Vocabulary Quizzes

*Literature: Reading comprehension and Elements Assessments

*Timed Writings/Essays

*Sharpen Up:

Terra Nova Practice

*Grammar: Skill Assessments

*Book Projects |Talk Show Segment

As You Like It/ Shakespeare Test | Edgar Allan Poe

Analyzing and Comprehension Comparison/ Contrast

Test 1

Test 2

Essay

Web Quest

| Sharon Draper/ Pronoun Test

Draper Essay |Flowers for Algernon

Comprehension Test and Essay

Wizard of Oz

Comprehension/

Subject Verb agreement Test | Weekly Timed Writings from Student Writing Portfolios |Civil Rights Unit Test

Relationships Unit Test

“The Love Letter”

”The Moustache”

”Checkouts”

”The Burden”

“The Choice”

‘Miss Lonely Heart” Writing Assignment

|Eighth Grade Skill

Review Folders and Cooperative Game |Holocaust Unit Test

Holocaust Web Quest

Project

Socratic Seminar |Charleston Unit Test

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