English Language Arts Curriculum

8th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will debate significant global issues through comparing, contrasting, and presenting solutions via various media sources and fiction/nonfiction text.

Outcome #

Outcome

LA.8.1

Students will analyze historical events from a personal perspective and evaluate ways society can stand up for its most vulnerable.

LA.8.2

Students will analyze how an author uses point of view, imagery, and figurative language in order to create tone and mood.

LA.8.3

Students will analyze a central idea and the supporting ideas of a text in order to write an objective summary, which will lead into the writing of an argumentative piece where students take a stand on a debatable issue.

LA.8.4

Students will analyze a work of literature and produce a thematic essay.

LA.8.5

Students will write narratives to develop real experiences using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well structured event sequences. 

LA.8.6

Students will evaluate differing claims in order to create a media presentation.

LA.8.7

Students will use mentor texts and peer collaboration in order to create narrative writing.

LA.8.8

Students will write an expository essay expressing the main idea and defining key words and phrases found in literary nonfiction.

LA.8.9

Students will use books or articles on reading level in order to determine how point of view is conveyed.

LA.8.10

Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing grade level texts.

LA.8.11

Students will determine the main idea of nonfiction texts by analyzing text evidence and structure.

LA.8.12 Students will compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres and their approaches to similar themes and topics.