Week 5 – Study Guide – ELA 8th 3/4

Unit Focus: Doing the Right Thing – Character Development and Analysis

Self-Identity — What makes me who I am?

Guiding Questions:

  • How are our true “characters” developed? How are they shaped by the people in our lives and the events that we experience?
  • How do our character traits determine our actions and reactions to life events? How are we affected by the actions/reactions of others?
  • How are we affected by peer pressure? How do we learn about what is right and what is wrong?
  • What effect does a person’s appearance have on the way they are viewed and treated by others? Do we stereotype groups of people based on appearances?
  • What defines true friendship? How are friendships important to our development?
  • What is heroism? Does heroism who its face only in extraordinary events or can it also be demonstrated in day to day activities?

Assignment / Due Date
Monday
  • Introduce and go over New Vocabulary
  • “The Outsider” Packet – Chapters 7-12 due Friday.
  • Complete “The Outsiders” Ch. 9 (Pg. 131-149)
  • Writing Trait #3 – Voice – Go over rubric and grading.
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  • Achieve 3000 – Minimum 75% required to get all points.Achieve 3000 Must be Completed – One paragraph minimum for poll and thought questions.
  • From Trash to Treasure (LEAP Challenge)
  • A (Tiny) Place To Call Home (Bonus)
  • Daily 25 Minutes of Mindplay REQUIRED – Shane, Bervick, Dontrail, Jaheim, and Eddie.

Tuesday
  • Complete “The Outsiders” Ch. 10 (Pg. 150-160) & Ch. 11 (Pg. 161-166)
  • Finish watching first half of “The Outsiders.”
  • Story Plot Diagrams.
  • Part of 4th Hour: Second time going to library.
  • AR Benchmark and then Mindplay.
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  • Daily 25 Minutes of Mindplay REQUIRED – Christopher, Alexander, Jada, and James.

Wednesday
  • Complete “The Outsiders” Ch. 12 (Pg. 167-180)
  • Writing Trait #4 – Word Choice.
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  • Daily 25 Minutes of Mindplay REQUIRED – Shane, Bervick, Dontrail, Jaheim, and Eddie.

Thursday
  • Cold Read #2 for “The Outsiders.”
  • “The Outsider” Packet – Chapters 7-12 due Friday (30 Points – 60 Points total for 1-12).
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  • Daily 25 Minutes of Mindplay REQUIRED – Christopher, Alexander, Jada, and James.

Friday
  • Writing Trait #4 – Word Choice.
  • Finish watching second half of “The Outsiders.”
  • “The Outsider” Packet – Chapters 7-12 due.
  • Achieve 3000 Must be Completed – 1 paragraph min. for poll & thought questions.
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  • Mindplay – Makeup Minute’s Day.

Week 5 - 8th Grade Grammar – Learning the 6+1 traits.

  1. Ideas (The main message.) are the heart of the message.

  1. Organization (The internal structure of the piece.) is the internal structure of the piece.

  1. Voice (The personal tone and flavor of the author’s message.)is reader-writer connection – that something that makes a reader feel, respond, and want more.

  1. Word Choice (The vocabulary a writer uses to convey meaning.) is the skillful use of language to create meaning.
  • You must use at least one new vocabulary word in all of your writing – tests, quizzes, and class assignments.

  1. Sentence Fluency (The rhythm and flow of the language.) is the rhythm and beat of the language you hear in your head.

  1. Conventions (The mechanical correctness.). This includes punctuation, spelling, grammar, and usage, capitalization, and paragraph indentation. If you do not capitalize the pronoun I, the first word in a sentence, or proper names, I will subtract FIVE points from your CR/ER.

+ 1: Presentation (How the writing actually looks on the page.), and it will determine if someone wants to read your paper or not - this can overshadow your hard work.

Week 5 – Reading Vocabulary Words – ELA 8th

From the novel “The Outsiders”

suffocate / die from lack of oxygen
tension / a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
smoldering / showing scarcely suppressed anger
notion / a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
promptly / at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence)
ornery / having a difficult and contrary disposition
leery / openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
taut / subjected to great tension; stretched tight
introduction / also called the exposition, the part of a book that leads up to and explains what will be found in the main part
rising action / a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
conflict / a clashing or sharp disagreement (as between ideas, interests, or purposes)
climax / the point of highest dramatic interest or a major turning point in the action
falling action / Also called the denouement, the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
conclusion / Also called the resolution, it is the end of a story, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
suspense / The anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in a story.