Eighth+Grade+Advanced+English+2015-2016

Learning goals

Gale Opposing Viewpoints Password for all: elmplace remote password: student

Module 1: Conflict Influences Control  ● What is control?  ● Who has control (and why do they use it)?  ● What are responses for control?  Texts for Module 1: interview with Sherman Alexie //Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// book group work Guide to Literary Analysis Sample Introduction //Things Fall Apart //  Short Stories  Primary Sources  Poetry  Independent Reading
 * Quarter One: August 20- October 30 **

=Literary Analysis for essay question in TFA and ATDOAPI=

**1.Topics can be divided into the main literary elements:**

 * Characters
 * Themes
 * Literary devices
 * Setting
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Narrative.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,'Arial Narrow',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2. Focus the Topic

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">The brainstorming process involves mapping out the different aspects of the chosen element.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Make a choice by narrowing down the selection and focusing the ideas.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Come up with a question to answer (thesis statement): What do you want to explore about the topic? Why does it stand out to you?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Answer the "why" question. Instead of letting students simply describe the text, "why" pushes them to analyze and even synthesize. This aspect is vital to student understanding, as most of the time a teacher is able to identify a relevant thesis related to modern-day issues and concepts. Here is where real-world application, analysis, and synthesis can begin to form in this piece of writing.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,'Arial Narrow',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">3. Gather Textual Evidence
<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Collecting material to answer or support your question is often a time-consuming stage, because most of the close reading will occur here.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Identify** common themes, repetitions, and patterns.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Categorize** elements, tone, and narrative style.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Highlight** characterization, setting, and foreshadowing.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Label** character types, symbols, and metaphors.

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,'Arial Narrow',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">4. Introduce, Evidence, Analyze (really important!) =

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Learning through writing and literary analysis happens through stages (see Bloom's Taxonomy ).

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 * <span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,;">Introduce: **Introduce your point in one or two clear topic sentences. Next, it's important to provide context for the evidence that supports the topic sentence in order to convince the reader of the stated point of view. There are a few ways students can add their evidence.======

<span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,'Arial Narrow',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Use one of the following after topic sentence, explanation, and context:

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Quotation:** When providing evidence word for word from a primary or secondary source, students should be reminded to use quotation marks only if the words have not been altered.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Summary:** Students summarize a piece of evidence by restating it in a shorter form using their own words.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">**Paraphrase:** Students explain a piece of evidence using their own words.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;">At this stage, cite and give credit for words and ideas that belong to others.

**<span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,;">Analyze text information **
Distinguish between descriptive writing and analytical writing. **Descriptive writing** answers the "who," "what," "where," and "how" questions. It often tends to summarize the text. **Analytical writing**, however, answers to the "why" question. When you consider the question, "Why is this point important?" it pushes beyond a description into ideas that are convincing, argumentative, and defending a position.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: MuseoSlab-500,'Arial Narrow',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">5. Conclusion
===A strong conclusion outlines the main ideas of the essay, but it also works to provide a solution to a real-life problem. You can focus on concluding with what your hope your reader will get out of their analysis, or provide closure to the topic. Most importantly, you should seize the conclusion as an opportunity to provide your own opinion and reflection about your process of analyzing the text.=== by Rusul Alrubail


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quarter Two: October 31- January 16 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Module 2: Conflict Creates and Suppresses Power <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What is power? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● Who has power (and how do they get it)? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● How can power be used? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● How is power controlled? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What happens when power is “out of balance”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Texts for Module 2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Inherit The Wind// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · //Macbeth// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Selections from Edgar Allen Poe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Short Stories <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Poetry <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Independent Reading <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Module 3: Conformity and Resistance are Responses to Conflict <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What does it mean to conform and to resist? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What motivates conformity? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What motivates resistance? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● What do conformity and resistance achieve/produce? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Texts for Module 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · //Animal Farm// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Superbowl Ads lesson <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> //Warriors Don’t Cry// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> //Independent Book Groups// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> //What Happens To A Dream Deferred?// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Midway// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Warriors Project (choose number one or two) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Warriors presentations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Short Stories <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Poetry <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Independent Reading <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Module 4: Without Conflict, There is No Change <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● Where/when does change occur? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● How does change happen? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ● Who can affect change (and how)? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Texts for Module 4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · //Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · //Lord of The Flies// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Short Stories <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Poetry <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> · Independent Reading Graduation speech guidelines
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quarter Three: January 19 - March 27 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quarter Four: March 30 - End of May **