Nine Week Plan First Quarter Eighth Grade Language Arts Teachers Evaluation and Assessments Content Used to Achieve Goals Established Goals (standards being addressed) Pre-test on Figurative Language Post-test on Figurative Language Short stories from literature book and elsewhere Excerpts from stories Various poems Figurative language lessons Greek/Latin roots 8.4 Apply knowledge of word origins, derivations, inflection, analogies, and figurative language to extend vocabulary development. Short stories from literature book and elsewhere Excerpts from stories Various poems Reading mini-lessons 8.5 Read and analyze a variety of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction, and poetry. The writing process. Mini-lessons on writing process. 8.7 Write in a variety of forms including narrative . . . l Reading strategies test Read and annotate a story Story elements test Pre-test on writing process Post-test on writing process Write a personal essay Write a narrative/short story Understandings and Skills (What do you want students to know and understand?) Students will produce two or more pieces of writing using these skills with mastery (see above) Various writers’ lessons on: Apostrophes, commas, homonyms, quotation marks, comparatives/superlatives, pronoun antecedents and case, capitalization, titles, hyphens, dashes, ellipses, parentheses. 8.8 Edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing Recognize figurative language in readings and use figurative language in own writing. Define reading strategies Use reading strategies to annotate a text Define and identify story elements in short stories Learn the writing process Use the steps of the writing process to write a personal essay Use the steps of the writing process to write a narrative/short story During the revising and editing/proofreading steps of the writing process, students will use proofreading marks and apply knowledge of correct grammar and mechanics