8th Grade ELA Snapshot (subject to change)
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1st 9 weeks
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2nd 9 weeks
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- Elements of literary texts
- Literary text structure
- Characterization and conflict
- Theme in narrative text
- Reading Portraits as biographies
- Informational text structure, features and analysis
Writing task: Personal narrative/memoir
First semester Novel:
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- Author’s craft:
- Analyzing tone and mood
- Examining dialog effects
- Author’s purpose
- Use of Irony
- Writing task: Literary analysis
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3rd 9 weeks
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4th 9 weeks
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- Analyzing poetry boot camp
- Biographies
- Heritage and cultural influence on narrative text and informational text
- Personal essay/memoir as informational text
Writing task: informational/research
2nd semester Novel:
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- persuasive speeches and text
- Reading and analyzing argumentative text
- Rhetorical devices
- Poetry analysis-author’s voice and purpose
- review
Writing Task: argument
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