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Month |
Content/Topic |
Skills |
Assessment |
Standards |
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September |
· Conservation Speech
· Irregular verbs
· Journal entries
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· Research information
· Write speech
· Present speech
· Listen and critique others
· Edit journal entries |
· Giving speech
· Turn in critiques of others
· Journals graded
· Worksheets |
· A-8.1 |
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October |
· Descriptive writing
· Develop skill interviewing
· Identify and edit run on sentences
· Review nouns, verb, adjectives |
· Use vivid verbs
· Use of good and well in writing
· Use prefixes to understand meanings of new words
· Use precise rather than general modifiers
· Identify and use comparative and superlative adjectives |
· Journals graded
· Worksheets
· Written responses to questions
· Interview classmate with prepared question |
· A-8.1 |
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November |
· Identify synonyms
· Use comparisons with adjectives
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· Use bad and badly correctly
· Use dictionary and thesaurus to find synonyms
· Be able to substitute synonyms correctly |
· Journals
· Worksheets
· Written responses to questions
· Letters written
|
· A-8.1
· E-8.3
· F-8.1 |
|
December |
· Prepare and present an oral interpretation of a poem
· Learn and use root words to create words
· Learn to recognize variants of root words |
· Identify use of figurative language and poetic elements
· Use end punctuation marks correctly in written and oral work |
· Journals
· Worksheets
· Create a poetry booklet with examples of figurative language
· Present an oral poem to class |
· A-8.1
· B.8.1
· C.8.1
· C.8.2 |
|
January |
· Grammar
· Usage
· Written work |
· Identify pronouns and antecedents
· Identify pronouns and contractions
· Spelling rule/ double final consonant or not
· Understand & use synonyms
· Pronouns as objects of prepositions |
· Write and display ode
· Worksheets
· Journal entries with analogies and word puzzles |
· A.8.1
· B.8.3 |
|
February |
· Figurative Language
· Grammar
· Usage |
· Use semantic maps for synonyms
· Identify and use metaphors, similes, and personification
· Punctuate dialogue
· Identify connotation and denotation as positive, negative or neutral |
· Journal selections
· Worksheets
· Illustrations of figures of speech – literal and accepted meanings
· Connotation and denotation display |
· D.8.1
· D.8.3 |
|
March |
· Grammar
· Usage
· Character changes
· Word choices
|
· Use of dialogue to track character change and development
· Direct and indirect quotations
· Recognize persuasive writing form |
· Write a short persuasive essay
· Worksheets
· Chart before and after character traits from a written selection |
· B.8.1
· B.8.2 |
|
April |
· Grammar
· Usage
· Revising, editing work
· Analyze word relationships |
· Demonstrate understanding of inductive and deductive reasoning
· Complete analogies
· Recognize varied word origins |
· Dictionary search for word origins
· Worksheets
· Journal entries |
· A.8.1
· A.8.2 |
|
May |
· Grammar
· Usage
· Proof reading for errors
|
· Forming plurals of nouns
· Recognizing subjective and objective writing
· Punctuating adjectives in a series
· Spelling with silent consonants
· Study use of dialect
· Recognize and correctly use homonyms |
· Illustrate homonym pair or trio to show meaning
· Worksheets
· Listening to oral presentation of selection with dialect
· Journal entries |
· C.8.2
· C.8.3 |
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June |
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