ELA
Quarter 2
8th Grade Curriculum
Quarter 2
6 Trait Writing (Writing Standards)
➢ IXL as M-W-F warm up activity
➢ On Demand Writing Prompts T-Th
➢ Vocabulary and Greek/Latin roots/affixes
➢ Nonfiction Notice and Note Signposts (Close reading strategy)
➢ Cornell Notetaking Grammar:Ch10VerbsandComplements
Literature unit: 8 & 9 Nonfiction & Persuasive text
Reading and analyzing Informative texts - RI 8.1; RI 8.2; RI 8.6; RI 8.9
- Argument writing - RI 8.8; W 8.1; W 8.2; W 8.4; W 8.5; W 8.6; W 8.7; W 8.8; W 8.9
- Claim, Support, Evidence (opinion topics) - W 8.1
- Citing, paraphrasing/summarizing RL.8.1; RIT.8.1; W 8.6;
RL.8.1 – Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.8.1 – Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
W.8.6 – Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interactandcollaborate
- Topic Sentences/thesis statements - W 8.2
Nonfictionbookreportproject
Speaking & Listening
· SL.8.1; SL.8.4