8th Grade literacy curriculum map 2014-2015
August - September: Building a Democratic Classroom - Reading non-fiction and fiction, Writing Constructed Response
September - December: The I-Search Unit - Narrative writing, Research (reading non-fiction), Summarizing, Taking an informed stand, Argumentative Writing
December - Student Designed Unit of Study - Thinking Deeply, Research, Informative Writing, Presentation Skills
January - The Stories We Carry - Narrative Writing, Seeking deeper meaning;
February - The Children's March and JFK's Civil Rights Speech: Shared Writing-Constructed Response,
March - Socratic Circles - Critical thinking, Digging deeper into texts; Listening and Speaking;
April - No Fear Shakespeare - Who's afraid of old English? The Great American Teen Novel - Narrative Writing; Exploring our prejudices
April - May - This I Believe - Discovering our guiding values, Narrative Writing, Speaking; Dystopian Short Story - Writing Fiction; Proposing a Solution (PBL) - Writing a Proposal, Research, Listening and Speaking
June - Reflective Writing - What did we achieve?
September - December: The I-Search Unit - Narrative writing, Research (reading non-fiction), Summarizing, Taking an informed stand, Argumentative Writing
December - Student Designed Unit of Study - Thinking Deeply, Research, Informative Writing, Presentation Skills
January - The Stories We Carry - Narrative Writing, Seeking deeper meaning;
February - The Children's March and JFK's Civil Rights Speech: Shared Writing-Constructed Response,
March - Socratic Circles - Critical thinking, Digging deeper into texts; Listening and Speaking;
April - No Fear Shakespeare - Who's afraid of old English? The Great American Teen Novel - Narrative Writing; Exploring our prejudices
April - May - This I Believe - Discovering our guiding values, Narrative Writing, Speaking; Dystopian Short Story - Writing Fiction; Proposing a Solution (PBL) - Writing a Proposal, Research, Listening and Speaking
June - Reflective Writing - What did we achieve?