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8.R.2L, 8.R6L
Theme: Analyzing a personal essay (orally)
Activity: The student reads the text (see attachment 8.4 Analyzing a personal essay)
Attachment: 8.4 Analyzing a personal essay.
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8.W.3, 8.W.8
Theme: Personal essays
Activity: Have an open discussion on how a personal essay differs from a memoir and a persuasive letter.
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8.W.3, 8.W.8
Theme: Review elements of personal essays
Activity: continuation and reinforcement as needed.
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8.R.6L
Theme: Point of view
Activity: Introduction of the concepts of perspective and points of view.
Links: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_mfmtojhUMs
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8.R.4L, 8.LA.5a
Theme: The images the writer uses to show readers
Activity:
The student works in a small group to read
“A Drive to Achieve the Extraordinary” by
Juliet Freking (See Attachment: 8.4 Text –
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8.R.4L
Theme: The images the writer uses to show the reader
Activity: Continuation of the previous class
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8.L.1
Theme: Person point of view
Activity: The student identify the pronouns in an essay or other key words deciding if is used in the fisrt, second and third person.
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8.R.6.L, 8.L.1b
Theme: Compare and contrast
Activity: Venn Diagram
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8.R.6.L, 8.L.1b
Theme: Compare and contrast
Activity: Venn Diagram discussion
Attachment: maps
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8.LA.4b
Theme: Use of common Greek or Latin affixes
Activity: Introduce the term and have students create a list of the most common latin affixes
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8.La.4b
Theme: Use roots correctly
Activity: With a set of flash cards work with the roots of words.
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8.R.3L, 8.R.4L,8.S2b
Theme: PT. Analyzing a Personal Essay
Activity:
The teacher assigns the
student a new personal
essay. The student analyzes
the personal essay, using
his/her experience in the
group activity to inform
his/her analysis.
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8.R.3L, 8.R.4L, 8.S2b
Theme: PT. Analyzing a Personal Essay
Activity:
The teacher assigns the
student a new personal
essay. The student analyzes
the personal essay, using
his/her experience in the
group activity to inform
his/her analysis.
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8.S.2
Theme: PT. The student shares findings and present analysis
Activity: The student will
Inform his/her analysis.
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8.L1, 8.S.2
Theme: PT. The student shares findings
HW. Ask student to bring newspaper and magazine to look for essays or letters.
Activity: The student will
Inform his/her analysis.
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Standards and expectations
8.R.6L
Theme:
Take out sentences from a text and infers whom the character is.
Activity: Read a provided essay and infer who is the character.
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8.L1.b
Theme:
Personal beliefs
Activity: The teacher creates four corners in the
classroom, 2 labeled agree and 2 labeled
disagree. .
-The teacher reads aloud the belief, and the
student goes to a corner of the room with no
more than 8 students per corner (vary based on number of students per class).
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8.S.2b
Theme:
Beliefs, (A)Agree or (D) disagree
Activity: The student reads/listens to a list of beliefs or values and checks “A” for agree or “D” for disagree.
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8.W.3, 8.W.8, 8.S.6
Theme:
Shares stories of particular beliefs.
Activity: Oral discussion with personal beliefs presented to the class by the students.
Attachments: This is I believe (8.4)
This is I believe (rubric 8.4)
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8.W.3, 8.W.8, 8.S.6
Theme:
Write list of personal beliefs.
Activity: Have students create a small poster 4x5 with his/her personal belief. Create a mural in class.
Links:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1096/twobelief_statements.pdf
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8.W.3, 8.W.8
Theme: Beliefs
Activity: Challenge the student to sum up his/her beliefs in one sentence.
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Standards and expectations
8.W.8
Theme: Self Reflection
Activity: PT. The student writes a self-reflection.
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Standards and expectations
8.L1d
Theme: Self Reflection
Activity: PT. The student writes a self-reflection.
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8.LA.2a, 8.W.8
Theme: Rules for commas and semicolons
Activity: Introduce the comma rules
Attachment: Attachment 8.4
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Standards and expectations
8.LA.2a, 8.W.8
Theme: Rules for semicolons
Attachment 8.4
Activity: Introduce semicolons rules
Attachment: Attachment 8.4
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8.S2b, 8.S3
Theme: PT. Exit Ticket
Activity: The teacher will have the student deliver the answer orally or in writing making the correct uses of
commas.
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Standards and expectations
8.S2b, 8.S3
Theme: PT. Exit Ticket
Activity: The teacher will have the student deliver the answer orally or in writing making the correct uses of
commas.
Attachment: Learning activity commas or semicolons (8.4 worksheet)
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8.S2b, 8.S3
Theme: Commas
Activity: Comma quiz
Attachment: (see attachment 8.4 other evidence
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Standards and expectations
8.S2b, 8.S3
Theme: Commas
Activity: Learning activity , comma and semi colon game.
The class will be divided in small groups and the teacher will provide them with a set of cards with words and punctuation marks for them to rearrange and determine the correct sentence structure using the correct uses of commas and semicolons.
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Standards and expectations
8.S2b, 8.S3
Theme: Semicolon
Activity: The student will answer the quiz format on semicolons
Attachment: (see attachment 8.4) Semicolon quiz
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