Vocabulary
(including: antonyms,
Synonyms, homophones, multiple meanings, and context clues
Literal
Comprehension
Reading Skill
Review
Voc. Strategies
Book Project:
Letter
Timed writing
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective
Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Story elements/plot
Book Project: Web
Page
Poetry
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Main idea/theme
Author’s Purpose
Tone/Mood
Analyzing stories
Book Project:
Web Page
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Point of View
Book Project:
Web Page
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Journaling
Symbolism
Allegories
Literary devices in poetry
Book Project: Web
Page
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Literary devices in poetry
Analogies
Book Project:
Web Page (update)
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Author’s Point of
View
Book Project:
Web Page (update)
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Comprehension
Skills
Focus
Book Project:
Web Page (update)
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill
Review
Cont.
Drawing conclusion
Book Project:
Movie Review/Art
Book Project:
Web Page (update)
Vocabulary cont.
Literal Comp. Cont.
Reading Skill Review cont.
Book Project:
Web Page (update)
Charleston Web Quest
Personal Narrative
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Thinking Maps
Outlining
Sentence
Fragments, Run on
Sentences,
Complete
Sentences
Poetry Contests
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Spelling Bee
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Letter to Edgar
Allan Poe
Poetry
Re-writing the ending of a story
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Timed Writing
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Expository Essay:
Thinking maps
Outlining
Forged by Fire
Tears of a Tiger
Essay
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Flowers for
Algernon Essay
Wizard of Oz essay
6 Traits of Writing
Weekly Timed
Writings
Reflective Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Timed Writing
Combining sentences w/subordinate clauses and appositives
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Book Project:
Time Line/ Journal
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
(Book Report)
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Expository Essay
Thinking maps
Outlining
Holocaust Essay
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
6 Traits of Writing
Persuasive Essay
Reflective Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Holocaust Essay
Within Vocabulary
Lesson
Timed Writing
6 Traits of Writing
Reflective Writing
Expository Essays
Thinking maps
Outlining
Ghosts of Charleston
Project
Within Vocabulary
Lesson

Capitalization and
Punctuation
Parts of Speech
DOL
Parts of Speech subject, verb ( action and linking), direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, identifying prepositional phrases
DOL
Parts of Speech
Review using excerpts from
Edgar Allan Poe pieces
Identifying
Prepositional phrases review
DOL
*Internet Search
Ocean research for poetry composition
Ocean Web quest
Poetry Contest
Presentation of original writing
Oral Reading
Socratic Seminar
Talk Show
Presentation which includes the following: script writing, group assignments and video presentation
Presentation of original writing
Talk Show
Segment
Oral Reading
Mr. Bill Guest
Reader
Edgar Allan Poe
Web Quest
Presentation of original writing
Oral Reading
Mr. McNabb
Guest Reader
Socratic Seminar
Pronouns
(personal, possessive, indefinite, demonstrative, antecedents) using both Writer’s Craft and excerpts from
Sharon Draper
Novels
DOL
Subject-Verb
Agreement using
Writer’s Craft and excerpts from The
Wizard of Oz
DOL
Presentation of original writing
Presentation of original writing
Flowers for
Algernon original books
Sentence Structure
(complete sentences, fragments, run-on, simple, compound and complex sentences, punctuation, independent and dependent clauses, sentence building and combining)
DOL
Presentation of original writing
Sentence Structure
Review
Using Modifiers
(degrees of comparison, prepositional phrases, adjective and adverb clauses, adjective and adverb phrases) DOL
Plurals and
Possessives (rules for forming the plural, singular possessive, and plural possessive of nouns)
Terra Nova Review
DOL
Presentation of original writing
Presentation of original writing
Verbs (regular, irregular, principal parts)
Terra Nova Review
DOL
Competency Post Test
DOL
Presentation of original writing
Charleston Web Quest
Presentation of original writing
Oral Reading
Forged By Fire
News Broadcasts via Internet
Oral Reading Oral Reading Oral Reading
”Miss Lonely Heart”
Presentations
“I Have a Dream”
Original Speech
“I Have a Dream
Too” Recordings via Internet
Civil Rights
Projects (Web
Quest)
Oral Reading Oral Reading
Holocaust Projects
Oral Reading
Mira Kimmelman:
Guest Speaker
Ghosts of “Charleston”
Dialogue Presentations

* All Year
*All Year
“My Name”
Star Girl
Selected Ocean
Poetry
Pleasure Reading
Books required
*Web Page Design
(book projects)
*Power Point
*Funbrain.com quizzes
*AlphaSmarts
Internet Research
Ocean Poetry/Web quest
*DOL Re-writes
*Vocabulary
Quizzes
*Literature:
Reading comprehension and Elements
Assessments
*Timed
“Memories of
Dating”
“How to Die of
Embarrassment”
As You Like It
(version designed for middle school readers)
Pleasure Reading
Books required
As You Like It
Power Point
Jeopardy
Talk Show
Segment
As You Like It/
Shakespeare Test
“Lov’d: The Life of
Edgar Allan Poe” play
“Tell-Tale Heart”
“Masque of the
Red Death” and
“Purloined Letter”
(dramatic versions designed for middle school readers)
“Bells” (choral reading)
“The Monkey’s
Paw” –play version
Advanced
Readers: “The Pit and the Pendulum”
Pleasure Reading
Books required
Edgar Allan Poe
Web Quest
Edgar Allan Poe
JePOEdy game
“Tell-Tale Heart”
Film
“The Pit and the
Pendulum ” Movie and Web Quest
Edgar Allan Poe
Analyzing and
Comprehension
Comparison/
Contrast
Test 1
Test 2
Essay
Web Quest
Forged by Fire
Tears of a Tiger
Darkness Before
Dawn
Pleasure Reading
Books required
Record Forged by
Fire news broadcast using computers and post to the web via teacher’s web page
Sharon Draper/
Pronoun Test
Draper Essay
Flowers for
Algernon
The Wizard of Oz
Pleasure Reading
Books required
Wizard of Oz
Power Point
Jeopardy Game
Charlie (film of
Flowers for
Algernon)
The Wizard of Oz
(film)
Flowers for
Algernon
Comprehension
Test and Essay
Wizard of Oz
Comprehension/
Subject Verb agreement Test
“On Hope”
“Once Upon a Time
When We Were
Colored”
“Foul Shots”
“Harriet Tubman:
Conductor of the
Underground
Railroad”
Pleasure Reading
Books required
“A Town Called
Rosewood”
“Blankets for the
Dead”
“Night Riding with the Klan”
“Untamed Border” selections from
Us and Them
“I have a Dream”
“The Love Letter”
”The Moustache”
”Checkouts”
”The Burden”
“The Choice”
Pleasure Reading
Books Required
“Once Upon a
Crime”
Pleasure Reading
Books required
Ruby Bridges (film)
The Story of Rosa
Parks (film)
Civil Rights Web
Quest
Record “I Have a
Dream, Too” original student speeches and post to the web via teacher’s web page
“Love Letter” (film)
Weekly Timed
Writings from
Student Writing
Portfolios
Civil Rights Unit
Test
Relationships Unit
Test
“The Love Letter”
”The Moustache”
”Checkouts”
”The Burden”
Eighth Grade Skill
Review Folders and Cooperative
Game
Diary of Anne
Frank
(the play)
Night
I Never Saw
Another Butterfly
Echoes From the
Holocaust
Tell Them We
Remember
I Have Lived a
Thousand Years
The Wave
Holocaust Trunk
Resources
Pleasure Reading
Books required
The Wave Movie
Holocaust Web
Quest
Alpha Smarts
Ghosts of Charleston
Pleasure Reading
Books required
Ghosts of Charleston
Web posting
Charleston Web Quest
Holocaust Unit Test
Holocaust Web
Quest
Project
Socratic Seminar
Charleston Unit Test

Writings/Essays
*Sharpen Up:
Terra Nova
Practice
*Grammar: Skill
Assessments
*Book Projects
“The Choice”
‘Miss Lonely Heart”
Writing Assignment