ELA 8 Weekly Plan
Week Of:
9/14 - 9/18
Subject: English Language Arts 8
Prepared By: Mr. Olson
Overview & Purpose: How does Setting, Dialogue, and Imagery Contribute to the Mood of Story? How do you identify mood using the mentioned 3
elements? What is an Objective and Subjective narrator? How do you identify each type?
Day
Bell Ringer or
Review from
previous lesson
Daily
Objective
Activity
Enrichments
Assessments
Materials Needed
Correctives
Texts
Homework
Monday
Daily Language
Practice Week 3
Day 1
- Analyze how setting,
dialogue, and imagery
affect the Mood of a
story.
- Review Daily Grammar
skills.
1. Journal Entry - “Are you Superstitious”.
2. Mood and Setting - Discuss how writing
and words can affect a mood of story.
3. Read “The Monkey’s Paw” (Literature
Book pg 374)
4. Complete Close Reading questions of
story together.
● DLP Week 3
● Prexie Journal
● Lined Paper for
Close Reading
● Literature Book
pg 374.
❖ Bring Close Reading
to class tomorrow.
Tuesday
Daily Language
Practice Week 3
Day 2
1. Pair Share - Identify the Mood of
“Monkey’s Paw”. Provide 3 textual
examples.
2. Read “The Monkey’s Paw” (Literature
Book pg 374)
3. Complete Close Reading questions of
story together.
● DLP Week 3
● Pair Share
Chartl
● Lined Paper for
Close Reading
● Literature Book
pg 374.
❖ Question Support
and Reading Check
“Monkey’s Paw”
Pair/Share Review Mood in
Monkey’s Paw.
- Review how setting,
dialogue, and imagery
affect the Mood of a
story.
- Discuss the narrator;
objective vs. subjective
narration.
- Review Daily Grammar
skills.
Daily Language
Practice Week 3
Day 3
- Identify how setting,
dialogue, and imagery
affected the Mood of a
1. Drop Everything and Read Book +
Reading Log
2. Identify the Narrator - Worksheet
● DLP Week 3
● “Identify the
Narrator”
❖ Complete Vocabulary
Strategy - Root
Words (cred).
Wednesday
-
-
story.
Identify objective vs.
subjective narration in
the story.
Review Daily Grammar
skills.
Drop Everything and
Read
Reading Log - What did
you just read?
practice. Give 4 examples of narration
from story; label objective vs. subjective.
3. Text Analysis - Identify examples from
the text that demonstrate the mood of
the story.
4. Library Day
● “Text Analysis”
● Library Book for
D.E.A.R
● Literature Book
pg 374.
❖ Monkey’s Paw quiz
tomorrow!
❖ Write a journal type
story (8 lines) using
the root words in the
passage correctly..
Thursday
Daily Language
Practice Week 3
Day 4
- Identify and analyze
Mood and Objective vs.
Subjective Narration in
the Monkey’s Paw.
- Use text dependent
analysis to demonstrate
understanding of how
Mood is used in “The
Monkey’s Paw.”
- Review Daily Grammar
skills.
- Practice Root Words Set
1
1. “Monkey’s Paw” test.
2. Text Dependent Analysis - Monkey’s Paw
and Narrator and Mood
3. Root Words practice. Complete
sentence practice with Set 1 of Root
Words.
● DLP Week 3
● Test (Monkey’s
Paw)
● Root Words Set
1 Worksheet
● Literature Book
pg 374.
Friday
Daily Language
Practice Week 3
Day 5
- Finish Root Word Set 1
practice.
- Review and Identify
Adjectives.
- Review the difference
between Nouns,
Pronouns, and
Adjectives.
- Review Daily Grammar
skills.
1. Review Adjectives. Use Grammar
Workbooks, complete Exercise 1 - 2.
2. Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives Worksheet.
3. Root Words Set 1 final practice and quiz.
● DLP Week 3
❖ No Homework!
● Root Word Set 1
Worksheet
● Grammar Books
● Nouns,
Adjectives,
Pronouns
Worksheet.