Grade: 8th Subject: ELA 2012-2013 2nd 6 Weeks (5 Weeks) Hurta, Gil, Kyle
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Oct 8
Continue Reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act I
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Continue Reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act I
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Continue Reading “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act I
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Finish Act I of “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Review Act I: Emphasizing characterization, setting, plot, conflict, theme, tone, mood & symbolism, stage directions, dialogue.
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Act I Quiz over “The Diary of Anne Frank”
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Continue with “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act II and introduce persuasive text using historically based speeches.
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Continue with “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act II by making cross genre/textual connections.
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Continue with “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act II by making cross genre/textual connections.
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Finish the “The Diary of Anne Frank” Act II by making cross genre/textual connections.
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Fictional Adaptation: Read from: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl pg. 970
(Diary Entry)
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Read from: Anne Frank remembered
Memoir
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Review for CA2 by going over take home review given Monday. / 25
Common Assessment 2.1 / 26
Re-teach CA2.1 & Introduce poetry through song lyrics
(Remind students to bring in school appropriate song lyrics for November 1st, introduction to Poetry.
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Introduction to Persuasive text through PowerPoint presentation & Interactive journals
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Read a persuasive speech, “The Trouble with Television” pg. 558
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Read a persuasive speech, “On a Woman’s Right to Suffrage” pg. 566
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Introduction to Poetry through PowerPoint presentation & Interactive journals.
Analyze student song lyrics in small groups
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Read from: Poetry Collection 3, Langston Hughes, “Harlem Nights Song”
Pg. 677
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Read, “The Road Not Taken” by: Robert Frost
Pg. 774
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Read: “Lenore,” by Edgar A. Poe
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Common Assessment 2.2
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Re-teach CA2.2 / 9
Student borrows an authors form and style by writing their own poem based on “Where I Come From”
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