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ENGLISH - 8

Course Summary

Through reading, writing, and rhetoric, students in the MJ Language Arts 3 course examine how authors fine-tune and utilize their craft to create texts with purpose. Students continue to develop the reading, writing, language, and speaking/listening skills necessary for success in high school, college, career, and beyond. Students evaluate and analyze voice, purpose, diction, syntax, and rhetoric in historical speeches, informational texts, and classic and contemporary literature through guided readings, interactive practice, and formal assessments.

Course Pacing Guide

Unit 1: How Can You Benefit from Written Communication?

Activity- Syllabus and Plato Student Orientation
Dear Diary: Writing for Yourself
Memoirs
Writing Informative Essays
Reading Fictional Narratives
Writing Narratives
Unit Activity and Discussion—Unit1
Posttest—Unit 1

Unit 2: How Does Communication Style Affect Your Understanding?

Activity- How Elements of Drama: Trifles
Character Study: Fourteen
Giving Multimedia Presentations
Film Adaptations
Performing Poetry: Dramatic Readings
Unit Activity and Discussion—Unit 2
Posttest—Unit 2

Unit 3: How Can You Make Peace with Conflict?

Activity- Determining Main Idea and Point of View
Analyzing Arguments in Documents
Researching a Persuasive Argument
Writing a Persuasive Argument
Debating an Argument
Unit Activity and Discussion—Unit 3
Posttest—Unit 3

Unit 4: How Do You Analyze Internal and External Struggles?

Activity- Point of View and Conflict with the Self in Short Stories
Word Choice and Stories with Plot Twists
Theme, Setting, and Cultural Conflict in Short Stories
Writing about Short Fiction
Unit Activity and Discussion—Unit 4
Posttest—Unit 4
End-of-Semester Test

Fee Details

Grade Level

Grade 8

Duration

10 Months

Credit Value

English 8 is a 1 credit course

Requirements

All students are required to read ONE of the following novels in Semester 2:

  • Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • Untwine by Edwidge Danticat

 

Prerequisites

Student must have completed grade 7