Purple 8 Year-at-a-Glance
August
Language
Arts
September
Essential Questions:
How do our experiences help define who we
are and who we become?
How can choices impact an outcome?
How does one use knowledge or power to
impact those around him?
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*Response Journal – annotating, defending a
claim with textual evidence
*Basic Writing Skills - Revising
*Annotating
*Summary Writing - SCRIBE, editing
(grammar)
*Reading Process
*The Giver by Lowry – word choice and
review basic story elements
Math
Science
Social
Studies
Exponents
Scientific Notation
Algebraic Linear Equations
Science Methods/measurement/graphing
Heat and Temperature
Density
Gas Laws
1st quarter project: Individual Science
Experiment 9/24
United States History
Essential Question: What is history and is it
true?
Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing, Close
Reading, Corroboration, and Contextualization
Review: Early America, European Exploration,
Causes of the American Revolution
Establishing America: Constitution, 3/5ths
Compromise, Great Compromise, Separation
of Powers, Checks and Balances, Federalism,
Alien and Sedition Act, American Slavery
Begins
October
November
Essential Question:
How do our experiences help
define who we are, who we
become?
How does one use knowledge or
power to impact those around
him?
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*Narrative Non-Fiction
performance assessment
*Analyzing literature and
author’s style
*Synthesizing knowledge of
author’s style and biographical
information to develop a thesis
statement about the author
*Compose an author analysis
essay through writing process
*Midterm Assessment
Graph of Linear Equations
Systems of Linear Equations
Elements
Periodic Table
Molecules/Compounds
Chemical/Physical Changes
Acids and Bases
2nd quarter project: Atom
Presentation and Tile 11/19
United States History
Essential Question: How can a
nation be united and divided
at the same time?
Louisiana Purchase
Taking the Land: War of 1812
and Native American last
stand, Indian Removal,
Tecumseh, Missouri
Compromise, Market
Revolution, Canals, Railroads,
Cotton, Slavery, Westward
Expansion/Imperialism,
Mexican-American War,
Women’s Rights Movement
December
January
EQ: How can
choices impact an
outcome? How can
a deeper
understanding of
ourselves and
others influence
choices?
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*A Christmas Carol
by Dickens
Character Analysis
Final over A
Christmas Carol
EQ: How do our
experiences help
define who we are
and who we
become?
How can a deeper
understanding of
ourselves and
others influence
choices?
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*Writing process
Argumentative text,
Research Paper –
MLA Format
February
March
April
EQ: How can choices impact an
outcome? How do our
experiences help define who we
are and who we will become?
How can a deeper
understanding of ourselves and
others influence choices?
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EQ: See
previous
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•The Boy in the
Striped Pajamas
Whole class and
small group
discussions
•Socratic Seminars
May
Final Assessment: Students
will compile their learning
throughout the year to
answer the Essential
Questions as they relate to
the literature and insights
gained throughout this year
•Extensive Poetry unit –
annotating, interpreting and
writing poetry
•End of unit performance
assessment and test
•State Assessments
Functions
Pythagorean Theorem
Geometric Transformations
Waves
Sound
Light
Electricity and Magnetism
Radiation
3rd quarter project: Homemade Instrument 2/27
United States History
Essential Question: Is war ever acceptable?
March to War: rise of the abolitionists, slave revolts, popular sovereignty,
expansion of slavery and compromises, Bleeding Kansas
Civil War and Reconstruction: Key Leadership, total war, black soldiers,
major battles, Emancipation Proclamation, military technology and
medicine, the “end” of slavery.
Statistics/Probability
Motion
gravity, force, acceleration, 3wfriction
Newton’s Laws
Simple Machines
Energy
4th quarter project: Rube Goldberg project 5/5-5/20
*Science Fair Extra Credit
*Showcase
Kansas History
Essential Question: What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Native Americans and Geography
Exodusters; Populism; Women’s Suffrage and Reform
Movements
Dust Bowl and Great Depression
Brown v. Board