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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