UNIT 1 English Language Arts 8Th Grade Study Guide the Road Not Taken

UNIT 1 English Language Arts 8th Grade Study Guide – The Road Not Taken Learning Target Article/Activity Notes/Examples RL.8.1 (literary text) 1. Pre-Class: Wizard cite – give Cite the textual evidence that most of Oz excerpt textual evidence – quote from text strongly supports an analysis of what 2. Pre-Assessment analysis – break down pieces of text and interpret the text says explicitly as well as 3. The Giver explicitly – what is directly stated in a text inferences drawn from the text. implicitly - conclusions you draw from a text inference – educated guess based on information read Breakdown of target: in the text an background information you already know Give quotes that support what you determine the text to say specifically and conclusions you have drawn from the text

RI.8.1 (informational text) 1. Pre-Class: Google cite – give Cite the textual evidence that most article textual evidence – quote from text strongly supports an analysis of what 2. Pre-Assessment analysis – break down pieces of text and interpret the text says explicitly as well as 3. SB Activity 1.14 – explicitly – what is directly stated in a text inferences drawn from the text. An Everyday Hero implicitly - conclusions you draw from a text (with handout) inference – educated guess based on information read Breakdown of target: 4. SB Activity 1.13 – in the text an background information you already know Woman Warrior (with Give quotes that support what you handout) determine the text to say specifically 5. People Magazine’s and conclusions you have drawn from Heroes Among Us the text Poster

RL.8.2 (literary text) 1. Mulan Video Clips theme – moral or lesson of a story Determine a theme of a text and 2. Bloom’s Handout setting – where the event takes place analyze its development over the 3. The Giver plot – events of the story (exposition, rising action, course of the text, including its 4. The Odyssey and climax, falling action, resolution) relationship to the characters, setting, Graphic Novel objective summary – retelling exactly what happened in the and plot; provide an objective 5. October Sky story without giving your opinion summary of the text.

Breakdown of target: Figure out the moral/lesson of the text and look at how it is shown throughout the text. Determine how that moral or lesson relates to the characters, setting and plot. Retell the story without bias or judgment, just state the facts.

RI.8.2 (informational text) 1. People Magazine’s central idea – what the overall story is about Determine a central idea of a text and hero stories objective summary – retelling exactly what happened in analyze its development over the 2. Woman Warrior the story without giving your opinion course of the text, including its (SB passage 1.13) relationship to supporting ideas; 3. Demonte Love’s provide an objective summary of the story, SB page 19 text.

Breakdown of target: Figure out what the entire story is about and determine how that concept is expressed through the ideas presented. Retell the story without bias or judgment, just state the facts.

RI.8.4 1. O’Captain my figurative – not literal, abstract Determine the meaning of words Captain Poem from connotative – not literal meaning of a word and phrases as they are used in a Language Skill of the technical meaning – (denotation) dictionary definition of a text, including figurative, Week PowerPoint word