WEEK READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES GRAM.

TESTS SOL AP
& UNIT SKILL
Reading: 8 RL.8.1- RL. 8.10
SOLS L.8.1, L.8.1. D, L.8.2, L.8.2.c
for this W.8.2- Write to explain. W.8.2.E, W.8.3- using transitions, W.8.4; W.8.1- W.8.2. F
Quarter S.L. 8.1- S.L. 8.1-D
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.C
Week 1 Collect summer assignments kinds of
Aug Syllabus & expectations sentences
12-14 Current events & discussion

(3 days)
Wrinkle
Week 2 Review of Summer reading ?s & vocabulary fragments comp quiz RL.8.1- RL. 1.A
Aug Communism/anti-extreme conformity and run- from novel 8.10 1.B
17-21 Brief author intro & 1960s study/sci-fi study ons (376) L.8.1, L.8.1. D, 7.
Honors: 5 item bag presentations; character analysis from summer bk WPM L.8.2, L.8.2.c 14.F
Wrinkle reading 14.G
Week 3 Writing to explain, thesis, transitions, 6 +1 traits subject & Vocab quiz W.8.2- Write to 8.
Aug Expository Essay on how students are similar/alike to a character verb from novel explain. 14.A
24-28 enter essay on Wpp? agreement W.8.2.E, W.8.4 15.
(541) essay W.8.3- 21.
Wrinkle transitions
Week 4 Time period (1960s) and Paul Zindels background is presented and Appositiv R.L.8.1- 4.
Aug 31- students relate this to the novel, including to vocabulary and to idioms (like es (wkbk R.L.8.6 5.
Sept 4 going steady) with which they are largely unfamiliar. 71) 14.A
Reading Ch 1-5, QtA discussions, vocab S.L. 8.1- S.L. 26.
Pigman Honors use literacy circle packets 8.1-D
Week 5 Character analysis is emphasized, especially the mother/father P 53-57 Novel quiz R.L.8.1- 3.
Sept relationships with the main characters (John and Lorraine). The sub/predic (Thur) R.L.8.6 8.
7-11 influence of Sigmund Freud is explained, examined and discussed. ates Grammar S.L. 8.1- S.L. 24.
Pigman Reading Ch 6-11, QtA discussions, vocab quiz (fri) 8.1-D 25.
Week 6 Reading Ch 12-15, vocab - S.L. 8.1- S.L. 12.
Sept Discussion with literary analysis social cultural themes (elderly care) 8.1-D 16.A
16-18 Honors: discussion Wed. Sept 16 over Ch 6-11
(2 days) W.8.1- W.8.2. F
Pigman
Week 7 Literary analysis and Poetic terms (personification, simile, hyperbole, Novel R.L.8.1- 6.
Sept metaphor, verbal/situational and dramatic irony) are identified and analyzed comp test R.L.8.6 8.
21-25 in literature and utilized in original writings. L.8.5 14.B
Honors discussion Wed 23rd over Ch 12-15 24.
Pigman Novel comp test Thursday
Discuss and journal w/ vocab words
Fig lang wkst for homework
Review fig lang PowerPoint
Week 8 Continue literary analysis and poetic terms (Mon/Tue) past v. Novel R.L.8.1- 23.-novel
Sept 28- Students will complete a poetry project regarding theme and symbol from past vocab quiz R.L.8.6 24.
Oct 2 novel and present it in class (Tue/Wed) participle
Novel vocab quiz Thursday (424)
Pigman Character analysis intro & discussion of character terms
Wpp (unseen prompt baseline)
Week 9 Begin essay prewriting and finding evidence active & Vocab W.8.1- W.8.2. F 10.
Oct Students will write a character analysis essay, using textual evidence and passive quiz 14.B
5-9 analysis, including parenthetical citations. voice 15.
17. A-C
Pigman 18. A-D
Week 10 Wpp (discussed prompt) W.8.1- W.8.2. F 2.
Oct Current events & discussion blog Analysis 10.
12-15 Independent reading book story map & retelling of climax and resolution Essay 12.
(4 days) 16.B
17. A-C
Pigman 18. A-D