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Secondary Curriculum / 8th Grade ELA- Unit Plans & Resources

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Description

This grade 8 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a 45-minute English Language Arts block. The overarching focus for all modules is on building students' literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world. Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the "instructional shifts" required by the CCSS.
Structure of a Module
Each module provides eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. Each module includes seven assessments:

- Six unit-level assessments that almost always are on-demand: students' independent work on a reading, writing, speaking, or listening task.

- One final performance task that is a more supported project, often involving research.
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Grade 8 ELA Curriculum Map: The grade 8 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a 45-minute English Language Arts block.

Grades 6-8 English Language Arts Curriculum Map: All modules pair literature with rich informational text (including primary source documents and literary nonfiction) on the topic. Informational text and supplemental literature in each module will meet the expected range of quantitative complexity. All modules embed routines related to written argument; argumentation is a particular focus of Module 4. All modules intentionally integrate resources from Odell Education.

Texts from Expeditionary Learning: The texts listed in this document cover Module 1, Module 2A, Module 2B, Module 3A, Module 3B, and Module 4 of the Grades 3-8 English Language Arts curriculum from Expeditionary Learning.

Appendix 1: Protocols and Resources

Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners: The new Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners Resource Guides for ELA and Mathematics provide guidance to educators on how to take the curriculum materials on EngageNY and provide additional scaffolds for ELL students according to their level of English language proficiency.

The Grades 3-8 ELA Curriculum Modules, A Look at Assessment Design: This document outlines Expeditionary Learning's step-by-step process for designing effective assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Writing in the Modules: While this document focuses on writing, all strands of the ELA standards (reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language) are all tightly interwoven in the modules.

Overview of Research in the NYS Grades 3-8 ELA Modules: The purpose of this document is to highlight how research supports the three ELA shifts that the Common Core requires and meets the standards in Expeditionary Learning Grades 3-8 ELA curriculum.

Helping Students Read Closely: The purpose of this document is to give teachers additional guidance to understand the design of close reading lessons in Expeditionary Learning's Grades 3-8 ELA curriculum, and also to think about how to modify module lessons or design close reading lessons of their own.

Interventions for Adolescent Readers: This resource package is designed to help school leaders, instructional coaches, general education teachers, special education, and intervention teachers think and plan together about strategic ways to best use additional support time beyond the typical ELA block.

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This grade 8 curriculum modules are designed to address CCSS ELA outcomes during a 45-minute English Language Arts block. The overarching focus for all modules is on building students' literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world. Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the "instructional shifts" required by the CCSS.

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Through careful study of classic and contemporary texts, students explore a timeless question: are human beings fundamentally good or evil?

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In 8th grade, students explore a timeless question: are human beings fundamentally good or evil? Through careful study of classic and contemporary texts, students will consider how access to power influences human behavior, and how everyday people respond in the face of unjust leadership, violent oppression, and cruelty. Students will grapple with some of the darkest events of the 20th century, and contemplate their power as young people to create the future they wish to see.

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Through careful study of classic and contemporary texts, students explore a timeless question: are human beings fundamentally good or evil? In 8th grade, students explore a timeless question: are human beings fundamentally good or evil?

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FormCreator is a Google Sheets Add-on that allows you to create a Form from questions on your Google Sheet. This is really great to easily and quickly make smaller quizzes from a Test bank or to make similar quizzes for multiple sections of the same class!

1. Begin by clicking on Setup Sheet in the menu. FormCreator will then setup the FormCreator Questions Template sheet for you.

2. Populate your questions in this template.

3. Check the questions you want to include to create your Form.

4. Click on the Create Form in the menu and enter the Form Title and choose to make the Form a Google Quiz with the point values you entered in the Sheet.

5. Wait for FormCreator to automagically create your Form

6. In the Success menu, click on the Edit Form link to open the Editable Form or the Published Form link to open the Published Form.

Some things to note:

You can create 30 questions for free per week. The quota updates weekly around 11pm Pacific Time on Saturday. You can Buy Unlimited questions per week in the Add-on with pricing details here: https://www.automagicalapps.com/formCreator/pricing

If you already have a sheet called FormCreator Questions Template, FormCreator does not like this and will not Setup your sheet. Please rename the existing sheet or use it as the template.

You can rename the FormCreator Questions Template sheet to anything you like after it is created and you will be able to choose this sheet in the Create Form window.

If you do not enter any point values for a question and choose to Create a Form, FormCreator creates the question with 0 points.

If you had embedded image items, you will need to use the FormRecycler Chrome Extension to insert them once you open the Edit Form.

Details required for certain question types:

For CHECKBOX, LIST, and MULTIPLE CHOICE questions list the choice 1 per line in the choices column (Column H).

For GRID questions 2 rows are required in the Begin Choices options. The first row is the Row headers. The second row is the Column headers.

The IMAGE question type is looking for =Image("imageURL") in the ImageURL column.

The SCALE question type is looking for the Lower Label in Column H, 0 or 1 in Column I, Upper Label in Column J, # in Column K where # must be 3-10 inclusive.

If you used formIngester and had a VIDEO item, it will not know the VideoURL as we cannot obtain that through Google Apps Script yet.

Please let me know if you are having issues and I will try to rectify them as soon as possible.

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FormCreator is a Google Sheets Add-on that allows you to create a Form from questions on your Google Sheet. This is really great to easily and quickly make smaller quizzes from a Test bank or to make similar quizzes for multiple sections of the same class! 1.

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Reading Skills Google File List
The above link will take you to the google folders if you would like to add in your own resources to share.

Click on the skill that you are needing resources for to take you a shared google file of worksheets.

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Reading Skills Google File List The above link will take you to the google folders if you would like to add in your own resources to share. Click on the skill that you are needing resources for to take you a shared google file of worksheets.

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Weekly Planner for Online Lessons. Perfect for those using Google Classroom!

Now that educators, students and families are adapting to distance learning, planning your online lessons using Google Slides is a great option whether you are using Google Classroom or not. Almost everybody has a Gmail account and you can easily share the link to the deck with your students.

You can add all the multimedia files they'll need within the Google Slides file. Just one file for the whole week!

I've added links to each lesson on the numbers that I put on each day on the first slide, also to the home button on each lesson for easy navigation (check out the video on slide 2). If you need to add more lessons, copy and paste the circles on the cover and add a link to its corresponding slide.

ATTENTION GOOGLE SLIDES USERS: PLEASE, DO NOT REQUEST FOR ACCESS. If you are prompted to "Request for access·" (sometimes it happens when you are logged in more than one Google account or when you are logged in a Google for Education account and your IT Admin has blocked the access), you can try again by logging in a personal Gmail account, and signing out of all the other accounts.

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Now that educators, students and families are adapting to distance learning, planning your online lessons using Google Slides is a great option weather you are using Google Classroom or not. Almost everybody has a Gmail account and you can easily share the link to the deck with your students.

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A simple weekly planner for Online Lessons for Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Two versions available!

A new weekly planner for educators! Using just one file to compile all your resources (videos, audios, images and text) for each day, makes distance learning a bit easier and gives structure to your students.

I've added an "Archive" tab, where you can add buttons with links to the previous weeks files. Once the week is complete, make a copy of your planner, name it after the week it corresponds to and add a link to it in the Archive.

Delete the content of the past week in the main file, and add the new one. You will be always working in the same file, and its URL will never change. Students will be able to navigate from the "main file" to the archives.

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How to hide the navigation bar in Google Slides so it doesn't get in the way while navigating using the links?

Go to share, get the link and replace everything from /edit to the end of the URL with /preview?rm=minimal

ATTENTION GOOGLE SLIDES USERS: PLEASE, DO NOT REQUEST FOR ACCESS. If you are prompted to "Request for access·" (sometimes it happens when you are logged in more than one Google account or when you are logged in a Google for Education account and your IT Admin has blocked the access), you can try again by logging in a personal Gmail account, and signing out of all the other accounts.

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A new weekly planner for educators! Perfect for Online Lessons and Distance Learning. Using just one file to compile all your resources (videos, audios, images and text) for each day, makes distance learning a bit easier and gives structure to your students.

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