Grade 8 English weekly lessons

Suggested weekly sequencing of competencies for lesson pacing.

English

Term 1

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • character
    • characterization
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. character
    • character vs. self
  3. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: conflict
    • character vs. society
    • character vs. nature/environment
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: plot
    • linear and flashback
    • parallel
  3. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: point of view and narrative techniques
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within linguistic context: deictic
    • speaker/narrator and time
    • speaker/narrator and place
    • speaker/narrator and situation
  3. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • diction
    • tone and mood
    • style
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • rhyme and meter
    • figures of speech and sound devices
    • patterns and motifs
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: organic unity
  2. 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.
  3. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within biographical context
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within historical context
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
  4. 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.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Identify one's meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
  2. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • diction
    • style
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context
    • point of view and narrative techniques
    • tone and mood
    • organic unity
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  2. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context: patterns and motifs
  3. Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within sociocultural context
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: poem/prose.
  2. Revise the literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
  3. 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.

Term 2

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: non-journalistic texts: persuasive text
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts: opinion editorials
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
  4. Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge
  2. Distinguish facts from claims/opinions
    • self-evidence
    • anecdotal evidence
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Distinguish facts from claims/opinions
    • argument from authority
    • empirical evidence
  2. Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Analyze persuasive techniques to support an argument: ethos, pathos, logos
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness: bandwagon vs. glittering generalities
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Analyze propaganda techniques used in informational texts for political correctness: transfer propaganda techniques vs. half truths
  2. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
  3. Synthesize significant information.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Synthesize significant information.
  2. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  3. Organize significant information using various technique.
  4. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
  3. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Revise the text for coherence.
  3. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Revise the text for coherence.
  2. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
  3. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  4. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: persuasive text.
  2. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  3. Synthesize significant information.

Term 3

11 weekly groups
Week1Lesson plan
  1. Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: journalistic texts
    • sports articles as news, features, and editorials
    • science and technology articles as news, features, and editorials
  2. Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function
  3. Extract significant information.
Week2Lesson plan
  1. Examine how visual elements are used as tools to achieve the intended meaning of informational texts: vectors, viewpoint, technical editing, animations
  2. Analyze how non-linear texts represent and/or summarize the contents of informational texts
    • photographs
    • cartoons/sketches
  3. Extract significant information.
Week3Lesson plan
  1. Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
  2. Evaluate claims explicitly or implicitly made in a text: claim of fact, claim of value, claim of policy
  3. Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author's purpose and meaning; target audience
Week4Lesson plan
  1. Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage
  2. Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing
Week5Lesson plan
  1. Assess the quality of journalistic articles based on standard development principles: simplicity and brevity, precision, objectivity and factuality, fairness and balance, ethics
  2. Synthesize significant information.
Week6Lesson plan
  1. Identify the text type appropriate for one's topic, purpose, and target audience.
  2. Organize significant information using various technique.
  3. Determine one's thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Week7Lesson plan
  1. Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
  2. Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
  3. Revise the text for coherence.
  4. Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Week8Lesson plan
  1. Edit the text for textual consistency.
  2. Publish a multimodal informational text for one's purpose and target audience: opinion editorials, sports and science and technology stories.
  3. Synthesize significant information.
Week9Lesson plan
  1. Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender's meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of inquiry
  2. Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies
Week10Lesson plan
  1. Examine the sender's voice for clarity of purpose and meaning: diction, style, tone and register, point of view, sentence structure
  2. Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
  3. Identify one's purpose and meaning in writing letters.
  4. Compose a letter of inquiry.
Week11Lesson plan
  1. Compose a letter of inquiry.
  2. Revise for coherence and cohesion.
  3. Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
  4. Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.