ELA 8

Major skills: Close reading and finding and evaluating evidence from the text.  Core reads: The Landlady, The Monkey's Paw, The Stranger, The Foghorn S&L – all standards CCSS Reading Literature Standards Emphasis: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.6 CCSS Reading Informational Text Emphasis…

Major Skills: Understanding the various structures of literary and informational texts, understanding author's point of view and how that influences a text's structure; understanding an author's use of craft; developing student's own craft and style Core reads: PILOT CCSS Reading Literature St…

Voice in writing, connections between history and our world and what we read in literature, literary memoir

Major Skills: Understanding how to engage in short and longer-term inquiry and research activities. Understand how to embed evidence into explanatory and argumentative texts. Understand how to maintain appropriate styles and structures of text in writing.  Core reads: The Diary of An…

Analyzing and writing poetry, self-expression, revision techniques