Major Units of Study: 8th Grade English

Unit Title/Standards Learning Targets Texts Reading Focus Writing Focus Assessments
Persuasion --Students will be able MLK Speech o Persuasion Terms o Persuasion o On-Demand
RD-08-1.0.7 WR-08- to identify and use each Ain’t I a Woman within text term/technique usage o Open Response
1.1.2 of the specific We Band of o Poetry usage o Opinion vs. Fact o Vocab Tests
RD-08-2.0.1 WR-08- persuasive terms.
1.2.2
Brothers, from o Oral Speaking style o Persuasive Letter o Persuasive Letter
--Students will be able
RD-08-2.0.4 WR-08- Henry V o Word Choice o Persuasive Speech o Persuasive Speech
to separate fact from
3.5.2
opinion.
I will fight no more o Organization and o Informational Speech o Grammar Quizzes
RD-08-3.0.2 “O Captain, My Format
RD-08-3.0.7 --Students will be able
to recognize bias and its Captain” o Author Intent
RD-08-3.0.4
RD-08-3.0.9 ethical use. “Paul Revere’s o Ethics
RD-08-3.0.8 --Students will be able Ride” o Propaganda
RD-08-4.0.2 to write & On the Bridge
RD-08-5.0.7 publish/present a “Charge of the
RD-08-5.0.9 persuasive letter/speech. Light Brigade”
RD-08-5.0.5
“Mother to Son”

Disability --Students will Flowers for o Character Traits o Editorial on o On-Demand

RD-08-1.0.4 understand character Algernon o Characterization Disability (ie. o Open Response
RD-08-1.0.6 developments within the Miracle Worker o Theme American o Vocab Tests
RD-08-2.0.7 plot and the author’s
RD-08-2.0.8 The Moustache o Main Idea Disabilities Act) o Editorial
purpose in doing so.
RD-08-2.0.2 “Willow and o Figurative Language o Reflective Writing o Reading Quizzes
--Students will be able
RD-08-2.0.1
to identify and use
Gingko” o Point of View o Fall Exam
RD-08-2.0.6 “Loaf of Poetry” o Other Literary
RD-08-3.0.2 figurative language in a
variety of genres. “The Handicap is Elements
RD-08-3.0.1
RD-08-4.0.1 --Students will use Mine” o Informational
RD-08-5.0.8 specific literacy Miss Awful Reading
RD-08-5.0.5 strategies in order to Americans with
RD-08-5.0.2 establish a higher rigor Disabilities Act
RD-08-5.0.3 of comprehension.
RD-08-5.0.4 --According to
RD-08-5.0.1 differentiated level,
RD-08-5.0.6
students will create and
present/publish an
editorial.
 Unit Title/Standards Learning Targets Texts Reading Focus Writing Focus Assessments
Multi-Genre Research --Students will be able to Harriet Tubman o Biography o Haiku Paintings o On-Demand
RD-08.1.0.5 WR-08-1.1.2 identify the coordinating steps Biography o Autobiography o Multi-Genre o Open Response
RD-08-2.0.5 WR-08-1.2.2 of the research process (BIG 6) Christopher Reeve o Research o Multi-Genre o Vocab Tests
RD-08-2.0.4 WR-08-3.5.2 and apply them according to
RD-08-2.0.6 WR-M-3.6.0
Speech Terms Writing Wheel o Multi-Genre
their specific needs.
RD-08-3.0.7 WR-08-4.11.41 “Still Me,” Christopher o Research Paper Formative and
--Students will be able to
RD-08-3.0.4 WR-M-4.12.00
communicate collected
Reeve Autobiography o Speech Summative
RD-08-3.0.8 Specific Informational o Letter Assessment
RD-08-4.0.2 information in a variety of
genres and methods. Research Reading o Feature Article
RD-08-5.0.8
RD-08-5.0.7 --Students will recognize the (project oriented)
RD-08-5.0.9 genre specifics of a biography
and apply them accordingly.
Discrimination and Choice --Students will reflect upon Diary of Anne Frank o Holocaust o Group Project: o On-Demand
RD-08-1.0.4 history’s impact on current Nightjohn History Research a o Open Response
RD-08-1.0.8 social issues. Tangerine o Plot Triangle group who have o Vocab Tests
RD-08-2.0.2 --Students will evaluate how
RD-08-2.0.1
“Mother to Son” o Mood experienced o Grammar
historical events are represented
RD-08-3.0.3 in literature. Selected scenes from o Dialect discrimination Quizzes
RD-08-3.0.1 --Students will interpret how Hotel Rwanda o Tone o Group Project
RD-08-4.0.1 plot events advance a text.
RD-08-5.0.1 --Students will analyze the
RD-08-5.0.3 difference between tone and
RD-08-5.0.6 mood in a literary text.
RD-08-5.0.4
--Students will pinpoint the
effect of dialect on plot
movement and character
development.
Year Round Vocabulary Year Round On- WR-08-1.2.1 WR-08-2.3.1 WR-M-4.8.0
and Grammar Demand/Transactive WR-08-1.2.3 WR-08-2.3.2 WR-M-4.9.0
RD-08-1.0.1 WR-M-1.1.0 WR-08-2.3.3 WR-M-4.10.0
Writing/Grammar WR-M-2.4.0 WR-M-3.5.0 WR-08-4.10.4
RD-08-1.0.2 WR-M-1.1.0 WR-08-4.11.38
RD-08-1.0.7 WR-08-2.4.1 WR-08-3.5.1 WR-08-4.10.5
WR-08-1.1.1 WR-08-4.11.39 WR-04-2.4.2 WR-08-3.5.3 WR-08-4.10.6
RD-08-1.0.3 WR-08-1.1.3 WR-08-4.11.40
RD-08-2.0.8 WR-08-2.4.3 WR-M-3.6.0 WR-08-4.10.7
WR-M-1.2.0 WR-M-4.13.00 WR-M-2.3.0 WR-M-4.7.0 WR-08-4.10.8
WR-08-4.11.18 WR-08-4.11.25 WR-08-4.11.15 WR-08-4.11.0 WR-08-4.10.9
WR-08-4.11.19 WR-08-4.11.16 WR-08-4.11.13 WR-08-4.10.10
WR-08-4.11.20 WR-08-4.11.17 WR-08-4.11.14 WR-08-4.10.11
WR-08-4.11.21 WR-08-4.11.26 WR-08-4.11.30 WR-08-4.11.34
WR-08-4.11.22 WR-08-4.11.27 WR-08-4.11.31 WR-08-4.11.35
WR-08-4.11.23 WR-08-4.11.28 WR-08-4.11.32 WR-08-4.11.36
WR-08-4.11.24 WR-08-4.11.29 WR-08-4.11.33 WR-08-4.11.37