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Big Idea:
Big Idea:
Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
Student Expectations:
Student Expectations:
Priority TEKS
Priority TEKS
- 8.5 B: generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information
- 8.5 E: make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society
- 8.5 F: make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
- 8.6 B: write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres
- 8.6 C: use text evidence to support an appropriate response
- 8.6 D: paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
- 8.6 F respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate
- 8.6 H respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice
- 8.7 D: explain how the setting influences the values and beliefs of the characters
- 8.9 D: describe how the author’s use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes
- 8.7 A: analyze how themes are developed through the interaction of characters and events
- 8.7 B: analyze how characters’ motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict
- 8.7 C: analyze non-linear plot development such as flashbacks, foreshadowing, subplots, and parallel plot structure and compare it to linear plot development
- 8.8 A: demonstrate knowledge of literary genres such as realistic fiction, adventure stories historical fiction, mysteries, humor fantasy, science fiction, and short stories
- 8.9 A: explain the author’s purpose and message within a text
- 8.9 E: identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony
- 8.9 F: analyze how the author’s use of language contributes to the mood, voice, and tone
Focus TEKS
Focus TEKS
- 8.5 C make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures
- 8.6 E interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating
- 8.11 A: compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, poetry using genre characteristics and craft
Ongoing TEKS
Ongoing TEKS
- 8.1 A: listen actively to interpret a message by summarizing, asking questions, and making comments
- 8.1 B: follow and give complex oral instructions to perform specific tasks, answer questions, or solve problems
- 8.2 A use print or digital resources to determine the meaning, syllabication, pronunciation, word origin, and part of speech
- 8.3 adjust fluency when reading aloud grade-level text based on the reading purpose
- 8.4 self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time
- 8.5 A: establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts
- 8.5 I: monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down
- 8.5 H synthesize information to create new understanding
- 8.6 A: describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts
- 8.10 A: plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests
- 8.10 B: develop drafts a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing
- 8.10 B (i): organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion
- 8.10 B (ii): developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples
- 8.10 C: revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety
- 8.10 D: edit drafts using standard English conventions
- 8.10 D (i): complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments
- 8.10 D (ii): consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice
- 8.10 D (iii): prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement
- 8.10 D (iv): pronoun-antecedent agreement
- 8.10 D (v): correct capitalization
- 8.10 D (vi): punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, and parentheses
- 8.10 D (vii): correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s, affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too
- 8.10 E: publish written work for appropriate audiences
Student Learning Targets:
Student Learning Targets:
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
Extra Information:
Extra Information:
Adopted Textbook: Pearson, Prentice Hall Literature
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