ELA
Grade Level​8
Teacher/Room​
: Watters 148
Week of: October 5, 2015
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Unit Vocabulary: Poetic Elements, alliteration, Repetition, Rhyme, Rhythm, Simile, metaphor, personification, dialect, narrative, point of view
Instructional Strategies Used:
Day 1
GSE/GPS Standard(s)​
:
ELAGSE8L1:​
Demonstrate
command of the
conventions of standard
English grammar and usage
when writing or speaking.
Day 2
GSE/GPS Standard(s)​
:
ELAGSE8RL6: ​
Analyze how
differences in the points of
view of characters and the
audience or reader (e.g.,
created through the use of
dramatic irony) create such
effects as suspense or
humor.
Day 3
GSE/GPS Standard(s)​
:
ELAGSE8RI6: ​
Determine an
author’s point of view or
purpose in a text and
analyze how the author
acknowledges and responds
to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
Day 4
GSE/GPS Standard(s)​
:
ELAGSE8RI3: Analyze how a
text makes connections
among and distinctions
between individuals, ideas,
or events (e.g., through
comparisons, analogies, or
categories).
Day 5
GSE/GPS Standard(s)​
:
ELAGSE8RI6​
: Determine an
author’s point of view or
purpose in a text and
analyze how the author
acknowledges and responds
to conflicting evidence or
viewpoints.
Mon. Lesson:
2nd Block:
1) ​
Word Wise​
Lesson 3
Exercise 1 and 2
Tues. Lesson:
2nd1) ​
Word Wise Lesson 3 Due
2)​
Bronx Masquerade- ​
read
pg 94-120
Wed. Lesson:
2nd Block:
1) Bronx Masquerade-​
read
​
pg 120-145
2) Character chart​
- complete
for the characters we have
met.
3) S​
entence Types handout
Thur. Lesson:
2nd1) ​
Word Wise Assessment​
:
Fri. Lesson:
2nd Block:
1) Novel Project Choices
2) Bronx Masquerade-​
In
your journal select one
poem that you liked the best
and copy it
2) Bronx Masquerade- ​
read
pg 79-93
Homework: Finish
vocabulary page 24 and 25
Homework: Study
vocabulary
3rd Block:
1. Vocabulary Review 1- 3
3rd Block:
due
1) Assign each student the
2. Answer ​
question in ​
Tom
character of Tom or HuckSawyer Journal​
3​
-​
List Tom’s
describe the other in voice.
3 most prominent
Share
personality traits, backing up
2) “Mark Twain’s Comic
each choice with evidence
Voice” handout
from the text. how do these
3) Twain’s ​
The Celebrated incidents help us understand
Jumping Frog of Calaveras his character and/or the
County ​
video tensions in his life?
3rd
Read Chapter 15 aloud
together 16 and 17 silently
Homework: finish reading if
needed
Study for Vocabulary Test
Activating Strategies:
Resource/Materials:
2)​
Bronx Masquerade-​
read
​
pg -146- 167
3) Finish Character chart
Homework:
3rd Block:
1 Vocabulary Test
2. . Find a group of 2-4 and
review Ch 1-16 looking for
evidence of ​
Figurative
Language..especially
hyperbole​
or tall tales
similes, and metaphors.
document 3-5.
Read Chapter 18-20
3rd Block:
​
1) Finish any writings not
done
2) Work on ​
character chart
with your parnters
3) Read Chapters 21-22 by
Monday
Activating
Strategies:​
partner
brainstorming
ELA
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=FXivgpLSQeo
Homework: Finish
vocabulary / read chapters
10-11
3​
) Read chapter 12-14
Homework: Study
vocabulary- read / voc
Activating Strategies:
Activating Strategies:
Partner sharing
Resource/Materials:
novels
Resource/Materials:
Class Novel
Differentiation:
Differentiation:
Varied level tests
product- novel activity
novel choices
Assessment:
Assessment:
Vocabulary Tests
journal entry
Resource/Materials:
vocabulary texts
novels
Activating Strategies:​
listen
to media video performance
Resource/Materials: ​
novels/
informative essay handout
Differentiation:
Differentiation:
Content/Process/Product:
Grouping Strategy:
Assessment:
Novel choices
Assessment :
Assessment:
novel writing
Vocabulary lesson
Resources and Reflective Notes:
Differentiation:
Assessment: