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Syllabus Quarter Two

This document provides a pacing guide for an 8th grade English Language Arts class for the second quarter of the 2016-2017 school year. It will focus on concepts of identity through studying three novels and informational texts. Students will work on literacy skills like making inferences and analyzing information. Assessments will include essays, tests, a lap book project, and verbal assessments. The guide outlines the standards, objectives, essential questions, resources, and concepts that will be covered during this time period.

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Syllabus Quarter Two

This document provides a pacing guide for an 8th grade English Language Arts class for the second quarter of the 2016-2017 school year. It will focus on concepts of identity through studying three novels and informational texts. Students will work on literacy skills like making inferences and analyzing information. Assessments will include essays, tests, a lap book project, and verbal assessments. The guide outlines the standards, objectives, essential questions, resources, and concepts that will be covered during this time period.

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GRADE: 8th

SUBJECT: ELA

TEACHER: AL-AARAJI

PACING GUIDE 2016-2017


QUARTER TWO

Texts: The House on Mango


Technology: Internet, Videos,
Street, The Absolute True Diary
YouTube, Music, Chromebooks.
of a Part-Time Indian, and Joey
Pigza Swallowed a Key,
Informational articles and poems.

Other
Resources:
Interactive
Notebook
materials

Concepts:

Standards:

Objectives:

Assessments:

Essential
Questions:
1. What is
identity?
2. Where does
our sense of
identity come
from?
3. How can one
develop
identity and
selfawareness?
4. How can we
foster our
social and
cultural
identities?
5. How do
external forces
shape the
individual?
6. What
identities, if
any, are
permanent and
which do we
have the power
to change?

RL: 8.1, 8.2,


8.3, 8.4, 8.6,
8.7, 8.9

Students will
be able to:
understand the
importance of
the role of
language and
textual
features in a
literary text,
and use these
features to
make meaning
from the text;
make personal
connections
between text
and their own
lives; write for
a specific
audience,
attending to
the specific
language,
voice, and
style, required
for that
audience; work
in groups for
the purposes of
interactive
learning
exercises and
peer response;
and use
language to
evoke feeling
and make

W: 8.1 (A-E),
8.2 (A-F), 8.4,
8.5, 8.6, 8.9A,
8.10
SL: 8.1, 8.2,
8.4, 8.6
L: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
8.4, 8.5

Literacy
Skills:
Makes
Inferences;
Identify
conflict,
analyze and
interpret
information;
find the main
idea/theme,
identify point
of view; define
vocabulary
using context
clues; decode
and recognize
words fluently;
summarize
text, draw
evidence from
reading, read
and
comprehend
written text.

Writing:
Journals, Short
Essays
Tests, Quizzes
Lap Book
Project
Verbal
Assessments

meaning in
their own
writing.
Note: Grammar, Vocabulary, and/or Root Words will be studied along with literary
units. Students will learn the conventions of Standard English, use their knowledge of
language and its conventions when writing, reading, listening, or speaking, develop
their vocabulary, and demonstrate their understanding of words and phrases at their
grade level.

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