8.6.5LA


 * Grade: **8 **Unit:** 6 **Week:**5 **Content: ELA Dates:** 5/6-5/10/2013


 * Theme Essential Question: **How can literature help us define the greater good?


 * Essential Questions: **
 * When are risks worth taking for the greater good?
 * How can I organize an effective presentation?


 * Standards **
 * (Focus) **
 * **RL.8.7 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas **: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
 * **SL.8.4 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas **: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
 * **L.8.3 Knowledge of Language **: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.


 * (Ongoing) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">RL.8.2 Key Ideas and Details: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">RL.8.3 Key Ideas and Details **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">RL.8.5 Craft and Structure **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each contributes to its meaning and style.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">RL.8.6 Craft and Structure **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">RL.8.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.3a Text Types and Purposes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.3b Text Types and Purposes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.3c Text Types and Purposes: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.3d Text Types and Purposes: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.3e Text Types and Purposes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.5 Production and Distribution of Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.6 Production and Distribution of Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.8 Research to Build and Present Knowledge **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.9a Research to Build and Present Knowledge **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new”).
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.9b Research to Build and Present Knowledge: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;"> Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced”).
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">W.8.10 Range of Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">SL.8.4 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">SL.8.5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">SL.8.6 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 on page 53 for specific expectations.)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.5a Vocabulary Acquisition and Use **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Interpret figures of speech (e.g., verbal irony, puns) in context.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.5b Vocabulary Acquisition and Use **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.5c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., bullheaded, willful, firm, persistent, resolute).
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.6 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.1a Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.1b Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.1c Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.1d Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.2a Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.2b Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.2c Conventions of Standard English **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Spell correctly.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">L.8.3 Knowledge of Language **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Objectives: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW analyze the extent to which a filmed version of a story stays faithful to or departs from the text, evaluating the choices
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">made by the director or actors.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW participate in pair and/or group discussions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW create a multimedia presentation on the “greater good” where the message is either explicitly stated or implied.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW organize an effective presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW evaluate character traits before the surgery using the novel and short story to provide evidence.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW determine the events that helped create suspense and kept readers engaged.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">TLW synthesize knowledge of novel by carefully examining text and creating a visual representation.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Assessment **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Product **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Student written narrative and/or multimedia presentation.


 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Key Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What can people accomplish by speaking out?
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What might keep people from speaking out?
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Does speaking out create empowerment?
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Was the character Charlie a good subject? Provide evidence for your response.
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">What was the highest point of interest? Why?
 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">How would this situation be handled differently today?


 * <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Observable Student Behaviors **
 * Observe and listen to pair and/or group work/discussion
 * Listen to oral responses
 * Student writing and/or multimedia presentation
 * Graphic organizers and rubrics

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">explicit <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">hero/heroine <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">implicit <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">satire <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">strength of character <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">symbolism <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">writing style <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">assess intelligence <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">motive <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">role <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">appropriate <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">specialization <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">absurd <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">impair <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">refute
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Vocabulary **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">ELA **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Bell Ringer/Warm-up Activities **3 minutes** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Whole Class Presentation/Lesson **15 minutes** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Small Group Learning-Reading and/or Writing Activities (Author Study/Lit Circles) <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">**12 minutes** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Independent Learning-Reading and/or Writing Activities (SSR/Computer Time/Centers) **12 minutes** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Exit Slips/Closing (What have I learned today/What do I need to know/What problems) **3 minutes**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Sample 6-12 Workshop Model **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Suggested Activities **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">[see Legend to highlight MCO and HYS]
 * Participate in large and small groups and report to the class.
 * View selected scenes from the film version of //Flowers for Algernon// and compare to the written version. Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of this story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. Write responses and share with a partner prior to class discussion. [HYS – S/D, GTH, CL]
 * How does the writing style (from the first-person point of view), in //I,Juan De Pareja// by Elizabeth de Trevino impact your connection to the protagonist, Juan? How is Juan’s struggle to paint (because Spanish slaves at the time were forbidden to practice the arts) simultaneously fascinating, suspenseful and inspiring? View Diego Velazquez’s portrait of Juan de Pareja. How does looking at this painting expand your knowledge of its subject? Write responses to these questions and others that are self-generated. [If you have this book]
 * Look back at the definition created for the word compassion. How did it change during the story? View short clips of Charly and Forrest Gump. Students discuss their thoughts about how the characters feel when being made fun of. Discuss if the lips are reflective of the students’ real life situation? Can you think of a time when you were teased or did the teasing?
 * Research people with disabilities. Understand the disability and the challenges involved and write how it would affect a person’s life.
 * Discuss or write the benefits and hardships of a surgery allowing super-intelligence to be possible. Would this be a good or bad thing for society. Cite examples from the text.
 * Summarize progress reports.
 * Read the screen play Charlie.
 * Explain how Algernon’s death is an example of foreshadowing.
 * Think about the ways the novel, short story, and screenplay present the scene in which Charlie meets Algernon. Identify similarities and differences.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Based on your experiences reading novels and viewing related films, as well as literature read all year, write a response to the essential question: “How can literature help us define the greater good?” After your teacher reviews your first draft, you may choose to write your own narrative that reveals your definition of “the greater good” or develop a multimedia presentation where this definition is implied. In your narrative or presentation, include references to specific examples of what you learned from novels read and films viewed about characters, the impact of settings, and pivotal lines of dialogue. Incorporate a variety of words learned this year. Publish your essay, story, or multimedia presentation as your culminating project for eighth grade.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Read for 30 minutes each evening from a self-selected book and complete a reading log.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Homework **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Terminology for Teachers **

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Professional Texts **
 * Warriner’s Handbook
 * Mechanically Inclined (Jeff Anderson)
 * Thinking Through Genre (Lattimer)
 * Reading Handbook Grades 6-8 (Red)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Literary Texts **
 * 8th grade Literature textbook
 * I, Juan De Pareja (Elizabeth Borton de Trevino)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Informational Texts **
 * Speaking and Listening Workshop: Presenting a Response to Literature HMU6 pg. 768


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Art, Music, and Media **
 * Diego Velazquez, Juan de Pareja (1650)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Manipulatives **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Games **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Videos **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">To consider how meanings are changed when texts are adapted to different media. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Define active and passive voice, reasons why author's use active voice, practice identifying active and passive voice with a fun (noisy)game, change passive voice to active.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">SMART Board Lessons **
 * R.L. 8.7 Impact of media on the meaning of text
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">L.8.3 Active Passive Voice


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px;">Other Activities, etc. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Odyssey activities
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">think central.com
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