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.
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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.
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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?)
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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
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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