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English Language Arts — Grade 8
Goal 1, Objective 1.03
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Building a paper bridge: An introduction to problem solving
- This activity allows the student to explore problem solving strategies while working with a partner. This activity (building a paper bridge), requires students to question word definition and the application of those definitions. Through problem solving strategies, students discover the need for applying math skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Steve Walston.
- The case of the disappearing pitcher plants
- This lesson addresses the cause and effect relationship between human interaction and a North Carolina endangered plant species. A role-playing scenario allows students to view the situation from a variety of positions and to collectively arrive at a solution to the problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)
- By Eddie Hamblin.
- Change in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1 of 3
- This lesson will demonstrate how art can imitate society. Students will learn about democracy in America through an examination of and a Paideia seminar on "The Sword of Damocles," an oil painting by British painter Richard Westall. This lesson should be used after a study of colonial times in America and through the American Revolution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 2 of 3
- This lesson is the post seminar activity to the Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 1 of 3. Students will participate in tiered assignments reflecting on the Westall painting, "The Sword of Damocles," and the prior day's Paideia seminar on that painting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sharyn West.
- Changes in a Democratic Society, Lesson 3 of 3
- This lesson is a follow-up lesson to the Changes in a Democratic Society, Lessons 1 and 2 of 3. Students will reflect upon and respond to a sculpture by Auguste Rodin, "Monument for the Defense of Paris." Permission has been granted by Ackland Art Museum to use the following sculptures: "Monument for the Defense of Paris" (Auguste Rodin) and "Wisdom Supporting Liberty" (Aime-Jules Dalou).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Wagoner.
- Connecting Folktales and Culture in North Carolina and Beyond
- Students will explore connections to North Carolina culture as they engage in reading and analyzing three folktales of North Carolina Literary Festival author, William Hooks. After comparing these stories to other versions of the traditional tales, students will become authors and storytellers themselves as they rewrite a tale from a new cultural point of view. Opportunities are also included to extend this study to world cultures and folktales.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Jeanne Munoz.
- Culture everywhere
- In their study of culture, students will use a chart to show the different ways that cultures meet basic human needs and recognize that archaeologists study how people from past cultures met basic needs by analyzing and interpreting the artifacts and sites that they left behind.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Differences Across the Curriculum: Part 1
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences Across the Curriculum: Parts 2, 3, and 4" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 1, is meant to serve as a pre-reading activity to the reading of the play form of "The Diary of Anne Frank." See attachment created on Inspiration software to gain insight to the organization of the entire unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Differences Across the Curriculum: Part 2
- This set of lessons can be used with "Differences Across the Curriculum: Parts 1, 3, and 4" as an integrated approach to exploring diversity with eighth graders. The unit will revolve around the use of the drama version of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Students will learn how diversity creates bias, which leads to conflict, where students confront their bias and practice tolerance. These parts reflect the four core curricula in an interwoven approach to teaching students to confront their biases, learn tolerance, and infer the impact of these on today's society. This activity, Part 2, is meant to augment the pre-reading activities completed in Part 1 in a Social Studies class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Lynn Carter.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
- How to Identify Search Terms in an Index
- Students will learn to use the index to determine if the source has information about a topic and, if so, how to find the information.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills and English Language Arts)
- By April Wells, Christina Klonne, Jennifer Tuttle, and and Julie Bingham.
- Impressed With Embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- It's in the garbage
- In studying archaeological concepts, students will analyze garbage from different places demonstrate competence in applying the concepts of culture, context, classification, observation and inference, chronology and scientific inquiry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Learning literary elements through African and African American folktales
- In this eighth grade lesson, students will apply their knowledge of literary elements (plot structure and archetypal characters) to the analysis and creation of African and African American folktales. Students will work in groups to read several picture book versions of African and African American folktales. Each group then creates a plot map for a story and highlights other literary elements identified within the text. Students then compare the folktales with fairy tales from other cultures and explain what they learned about African and African American culture from reading the folktales. Finally, students work independently to write their own modern-day folktale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Hardin Engelhardt.
- Literature Lamps: The Weirdo
- Literature is tied to an integrated curriculum for student success. Emphasis is on reading and communication.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Wendy Sirias.
- Living History - Civil War
- After researching antebellum North Carolina and the role of North Carolina in the Civil War, students will write, edit, publish, and produce their own plays.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pam Johnson.
- Math Name Tag: An Introduction Project for the First Day
- In this project the students will introduce themselves to teh class by using a creative display of magazine cutouts, pictures, and drawings on a math symbol that represents who they are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Kim Byrd.
- Maya Angelou: Study and Response to "Still I Rise"
- Students read biographical information on Maya Angelou and her poem, "Still I Rise." Students identify support and elaboration in poem, then respond by either writing a letter to the author or his/her own poem in response.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines
- This lesson plan uses Chapter 13 of Our Southern Highlanders (available online) as a jumping-off point to help students achieve social studies and English language arts objectives while developing an appreciation of the uniqueness of regional speech patterns, the complexities of ethnographic encounter, and the need to interrogate primary sources carefully to identify potential biases and misinformation in them. Historical content includes American slavery, the turn-of-the-century, and the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- The Mythology Connection
- Mythology is fascinating and students enjoy the research and learning more about different characters. By allowing them to choose some of the activities for the booklet, they take more ownership in learning. They also enjoy dressing up and pretending to become a mythological character. This unit incorporates many goals in a fun and stimulating way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Bowman.
