Syllabus

= ﻿Syllabus for Eighth Grade English =

**﻿Introductory Unit:** **Language Lives:**
 * **Review of Writing and Reading Processes**
 * **Diagnostic Assessments**
 * **Summer Reading**
 * **Word Origins**
 * **Dialect/Slang**
 * **Informal/Formal**
 * **Tone Etymology**

**Authentic Research:**
 * **Evaluation of Sources**
 * **Bibliography (MLA)**
 * **Plagiarism**
 * **POWER Writing Process**
 * **Making Inferences**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Comprehending Resources**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Interviewing**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Short Story - Plot and Setting:**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Read Short Stories**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Identify plot, setting, theme, tone, conflict, style, conclusions, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, foreshadowing**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Writing a narrative**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Novel Study: __Nothing But the Truth__**
 * **Identify plot, conflict, irony, point of view, theme, tone**
 * **Dialogue**
 * **Narrator**
 * **Character Development**
 * **Persuasive Writing and Writing Process** [[image:http://mhs.dcsdschools.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_3844624/Image/english-clipart%20Books%20and%20glasses.JPG align="right"]]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Effective Writing:**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Narrative**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Persuasive**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Expository**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Informative**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Real Life Reading:****Advertising Techniques**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Bias**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Text Structure**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Oral Presentation**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Fact vs. Opinion**

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Poetry:**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Figurative Language**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Compare and Contrast Styles**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Literary Analysis**
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">**Theme**