8th Grade ELAR Unit 6

Big Idea:

Engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

• 8.12 B: develop and revise a plan
• 8.12 C: refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions
• 8.12 G: differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials
• 8.12 H (i): reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission
• 8.12 I: display academic citations and use source materials ethically
• 8.12 J: use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results

Focus TEKS

• 8.1 A: listen actively to interpret a message by summarizing, asking questions, and making comments
• 8.12 E: differentiate between primary and secondary sources
• 8.12 F: synthesize information from a variety of sources
• 8.12 H: examine sources
• 8.12 H (ii): faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language

Ongoing TEKS

• 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
• 8.12 A: generate student-selected and teacher guided questions for formal and informal inquiry
• 8.12 D: identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources

Learning Targets:

Essential Questions:

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: Pearson, Prentice Hall Literature

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