UNIT 5
UEQ: Are yesterday's heroes important today?
LEQ: What strategies will this unit explore?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will take a picture walk across the new unit. Beginning on pg. 75After the preview, students will be asked to name a hero on white poster paper to be displayed. Then, using a circle map, students will identify the qualities of a hero.
The teacher will introduce the BIG question. The teacher will also introduce the unit vocabulary. pg. 755 Students will work in a group to verbally use the vocabulary in their own sentence.
Themes in American Stories will be read throughout the unit.
Strategies that will be introduced and used: Comprehension - Key Ideas and Details, Unlocking basic meaning
Text Analysis - Craft and Structure. Author's influences, oral language influence, historical context, cultural factors and the influence. Connections: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas - identify the theme, compare and contrast similar work.
Students will read aloud from" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain. Highlighted areas are marked to move students towards understanding.
MYP Objectives
Objective D: Using language
i. use appropriate and varied vocabulary, sentence structures and forms of expression
ii. write and speak in a register and style that serve the context and intention
iii. use correct grammar, syntax and punctuation
iv. spell (alphabetic languages), write (character languages) and pronounce with accuracy
v. use appropriate non-verbal communication techniques.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.1.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
LAFS.8.RL.2.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
March 6, 2018
Administer the Science Benchmark test
Students attending class will go to their Pearson accounts and work on individualized skill practice for reading comprehension.
Each student has a set of skill worksheets designed to practice tested weak areas. Answer keys are located around the room for students to work at their own pace and check and revise their own answers.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
March 7, 2018
Bellwork:
Week 9 Daily Bellringer
Day 1
Understanding prefixes dis & pre
UEQ/LEQLEQ: How do I analyze the story further?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will be using their CLOSE reading WB to highlight and annotate the strategies stressed and added to their flip books. Strategies that should be noted should be important points like shown in from
" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain.
HomeworkComplete CLOSE reading if not completed in class.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.1.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
LAFS.8.RL.1.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
March 8, 2018
Bellwork:Week 9 Daily Bellringer
Understanding the prefixes non and re
UEQ/LEQLEQ: What is included in the American Folk Tradition?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will design a Brace Map to show the different elements of the American Folk Tradition. This will be used as a reference throughout the unit.
The map will include oral tradition, theme, universal themes, cultural context, heroes, and heroines. Also included will be the definition of myths, fables, moral, trickster tales, tall tales hyperbole, legends, and epics.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.2.5
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
March 9, 2018
Bellwork:Week 9 Bellringer
Understanding the suffixes ize, yze, and ment.
UEQ/LEQ
LEQ: What is the external and internal conflict?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsThe teacher will show a clip of Paul Bunyan's adventures. The teacher will then ask what challenges might Paul face in that setting?
The teacher will explain that the plot is moved by the conflict. In this instance, the story is the external conflict with an outside force. The teacher will explain that characters could face problems posed by another character, the landscape, economics or other external obstacles.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.3.9
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
UEQ: Are yesterday's heroes important today?
LEQ: What strategies will this unit explore?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will take a picture walk across the new unit. Beginning on pg. 75After the preview, students will be asked to name a hero on white poster paper to be displayed. Then, using a circle map, students will identify the qualities of a hero.
The teacher will introduce the BIG question. The teacher will also introduce the unit vocabulary. pg. 755 Students will work in a group to verbally use the vocabulary in their own sentence.
Themes in American Stories will be read throughout the unit.
Strategies that will be introduced and used: Comprehension - Key Ideas and Details, Unlocking basic meaning
Text Analysis - Craft and Structure. Author's influences, oral language influence, historical context, cultural factors and the influence. Connections: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas - identify the theme, compare and contrast similar work.
Students will read aloud from" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain. Highlighted areas are marked to move students towards understanding.
MYP Objectives
Objective D: Using language
i. use appropriate and varied vocabulary, sentence structures and forms of expression
ii. write and speak in a register and style that serve the context and intention
iii. use correct grammar, syntax and punctuation
iv. spell (alphabetic languages), write (character languages) and pronounce with accuracy
v. use appropriate non-verbal communication techniques.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.1.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
LAFS.8.RL.2.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
March 6, 2018
Administer the Science Benchmark test
Students attending class will go to their Pearson accounts and work on individualized skill practice for reading comprehension.
Each student has a set of skill worksheets designed to practice tested weak areas. Answer keys are located around the room for students to work at their own pace and check and revise their own answers.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
March 7, 2018
Bellwork:
Week 9 Daily Bellringer
Day 1
Understanding prefixes dis & pre
UEQ/LEQLEQ: How do I analyze the story further?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will be using their CLOSE reading WB to highlight and annotate the strategies stressed and added to their flip books. Strategies that should be noted should be important points like shown in from
" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," by Mark Twain.
HomeworkComplete CLOSE reading if not completed in class.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.1.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
LAFS.8.RL.1.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
March 8, 2018
Bellwork:Week 9 Daily Bellringer
Understanding the prefixes non and re
UEQ/LEQLEQ: What is included in the American Folk Tradition?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsStudents will design a Brace Map to show the different elements of the American Folk Tradition. This will be used as a reference throughout the unit.
The map will include oral tradition, theme, universal themes, cultural context, heroes, and heroines. Also included will be the definition of myths, fables, moral, trickster tales, tall tales hyperbole, legends, and epics.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.2.5
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
March 9, 2018
Bellwork:Week 9 Bellringer
Understanding the suffixes ize, yze, and ment.
UEQ/LEQ
LEQ: What is the external and internal conflict?
Lesson Activities/AssignmentsThe teacher will show a clip of Paul Bunyan's adventures. The teacher will then ask what challenges might Paul face in that setting?
The teacher will explain that the plot is moved by the conflict. In this instance, the story is the external conflict with an outside force. The teacher will explain that characters could face problems posed by another character, the landscape, economics or other external obstacles.
Standards
LAFS.8.RL.3.9
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.