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Topics of Study
Topics of Study
Materials
Materials
Pencils
Highlighter
Lined paper
1.5 inch 3-ring notebook/5 dividers
Sticky notes
Skills By Quarter
Student academic goal: 3 or better on each target skill
Multiple attempts to achieve each target goal are provided throughout the semester.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Ms. Otter (she/her)
ELA 8
lotter@usd259.net
Ms. Lavacek
mlavacek@usd259.net
Ms. Sims
ksims@usd259.net
Target Video Help
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in an informational text assessing for relevance, sufficiency, credibility, and accuracy of evidence for a specific claim.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: – Identify errors in reasoning (i.e., logical errors, fallacies, irrelevant evidence) in an argument.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
Target 1: Analyze how a theme or central idea develops over the course of a text to provide an objective summary.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
Target 2:Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from a text.
Analyzing Language
Target 1: Determine or clarify the denotative meanings of words and phrases in a text, including academic vocabulary, using context, Greek and Latin roots, affixes, or reference materials.
Analyzing Language
Target 2: Determine the meaning of specific words and phrases to analyze the impact of word choice, including connotative (e.g. analogies or allusions) and technical language on how meaning and tone are developed in a text.
Analyzing Language
Target 3: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings in a text.
Analyzing Narratives
Target 1: Analyze how specific events and dialogue in a literary text affect the development of the story to propel the action.
Analyzing Narratives
Target 2: Analyze how the events and dialogue in a literary text reveal aspects of a character to provoke a decision.
Analyzing Point of View and Purpose
Target 1: Analyze how differences in the point of view of the characters and the audience or reader create effects such as suspense, humor, or dramatic irony.
Analyzing Point of View and Purpose
Target 2: Analyze an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Analyze the structure of two or more literary texts and determine how each contributes to its meaning and style.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 2:Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph including the role of specific sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
Target 3: Analyze how an informational text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events.
Audience, Purpose, and Task
Target 1: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate for a specific audience, purpose, and task.
Comparing Texts
Target 1: Evaluate the information expressed in various media to present a particular text, script, topic or idea.
Comparing Texts
Target 2: Analyze how a work of fiction draws on character types, patterns of events, or themes from classic and modern texts.
Comparing Texts
Target 3: Analyze two or more informational texts that provide conflicting information on the same topic to identify differing information on matters of fact or interpretation.
Editing
Target 1: Edit for grammar conventions including capitalization and correct spelling of words.
Editing
Target 2: Edit for proper punctuation including the correct use of commas, dashes, and ellipses to indicate a pause, break or an omission.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 1: Write an argument in third person point of view that supports the claim(s) with logical reasoning, relevant and sufficient evidence using accurate and credible sources using a formal style.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
Target 2: Create cohesion and clarify relationships among claim(s), counterclaim(s), reasons, and evidence.
Generating Narratives
Target 1: Write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences or events to create and develop the conflict, setting, and characters using narrative techniques, and a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to show relationships among experiences and events.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
Target 1: Write informative/explanatory texts in third person point of view to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content using formal style.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
Target 2:
Use transitions and precise language to create cohesion and clarify relationships of major ideas in a text.
Parts of Speech
Target 1:
Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve specific effects.
Parts of Speech
Target 1:
Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in particular sentences.
Revision
Target 1:
develop and strengthen writing so that word choice is clear and precise, and by rewriting or trying a new approach.
Revision
Target 2:
Revise sentences so that they vary in length and complexity and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.
Sources and Research
Target 1:
Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including self-generated questions), drawing on several sources and generating additional, related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Sources and Research
Target 2:
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources (using search terms effectively) and assess the credibility and accuracy of each source to quote or paraphrase the data or conclusions; avoid plagiarism using standard MLA format for citation.
Sources and Research
Target 3:
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Speaking and Listening
Target 1:
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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