Grade 8 English competencies
Reference of expected learner competencies for planning and assessment.
English
Term 1
27 competenciesThe learners demonstrate their multiliteracies and communicative competence in evaluating Afro-Asian literature (poetry and prose) for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience as a foundation for publishing original literary texts that reflect their expanding cultural identity.
The learners analyze the style, form, and features of Afro-Asian literature (poetry and prose); evaluate literary texts for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience; and compose and publish an original multimodal literary text (poem or prose) that represents their meaning, purpose, and target audience, and reflects their expanding cultural identity.
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict: character vs. character
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict: character vs. society
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict: character vs. nature/environment
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict: character vs. self
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: character
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: characterization
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot: linear and flashback
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot: parallel
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: rhyme and meter
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: diction
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: tone and mood
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: style
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: patterns and motifs
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: figures of speech and sound devices
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: point of view and narrative techniques
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: organic unity
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within biographical context
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within historical context
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context: deictic: speaker/narrator and time
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context: deictic: speaker/narrator and place
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context: deictic: speaker/narrator and situation
Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: poem/prose.
Term 2
26 competenciesThe learners demonstrate their multiliteracies and communicative competence in evaluating informational texts (persuasive texts and journalistic texts: opinion editorials) for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience as a foundation for publishing original informational texts.
The learners analyze the style, form, and features of informational texts (persuasive texts and opinion editorials); evaluate informational texts for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience; and compose and publish original multimodal informational texts (persuasive texts) using appropriate forms and structures that represent their meaning, purpose, and target audience.
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: non-journalistic texts: persuasive text
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts: opinion editorials
Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
Extract significant information.
Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
Distinguish facts from claims/opinions: self-evidence
Distinguish facts from claims/opinions: anecdotal evidence
Distinguish facts from claims/opinions: argument from authority
Distinguish facts from claims/opinions: empirical evidence
Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness: bandwagon vs. glittering generalities
Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness: transfer propaganda techniques vs. half truths
Analyze persuasive techniques to support an argument: ethos, pathos, logos
Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Synthesize significant information.
Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
Organize significant information using various technique.
Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Revise the text for coherence.
Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Edit the text for textual consistency.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: persuasive text.
Term 3
32 competenciesThe learners demonstrate their multiliteracies and communicative competence in evaluating informational texts (journalistic texts: sports and Science and Technology articles) and transactional texts (letter of inquiry) for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience as a foundation for publishing original informational and transactional texts.
The learners analyze the style, form, and features of informational texts (sports and Science and Technology articles) and transactional texts (letter of inquiry); evaluate informational and transactional texts for clarity of meaning, purpose, and target audience; and compose and publish original multimodal informational texts (sports and Science and Technology articles) using appropriate forms and structures that represent their meaning, purpose, and target audience.
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts: sports articles as news, features, and editorials
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts: science and technology articles as news, features, and editorials
Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
Examine how visual elements are used as tools to achieve the intended meaning of informational texts: vectors, viewpoint, technical editing, animations
Extract significant information.
Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
Analyze how non-linear texts represent and/or summarize the contents of informational texts: photographs
Analyze how non-linear texts represent and/or summarize the contents of informational texts: cartoons/sketches
Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage
Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Assess the quality of journalistic articles based on standard development principles: simplicity and brevity, precision, objectivity and factuality, fairness and balance, ethics
Synthesize significant information.
Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
Organize significant information using various technique.
Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Revise the text for coherence.
Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Edit the text for textual consistency.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: opinion editorials, sports and science and technology stories.
Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender's meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of inquiry
Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies
Examine the sender's voice for clarity of purpose and meaning: diction, style, tone and register, point of view, sentence structure
Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
Identify one's purpose and meaning in writing letters.
Compose a letter of inquiry.
Revise for coherence and cohesion.
Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.