Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
English Language Arts — Grade 8
Goal 1, Objective 1.04
Resources aligned to this objective
Records 1–20 of 70 displayed: go to page 1, 2, 3, 4 | next
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Dialect Awareness in Literature and Life
- Dovey Coe, a young adolescent novel by Frances O'Roark Dowell of Boone, North Carolina, takes place in the 1930s in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The use of mountain dialect continues to remind the reader of the importance of setting in this novel. The study of a selection from this novel will help students realize the impact of dialect in literature as well as their own speaking and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome.
- Dialect Awareness in Literature and Life
- Dovey Coe, a young adolescent novel by Frances O'Roark Dowell of Boone, North Carolina, takes place in the 1930s in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The use of mountain dialect continues to remind the reader of the importance of setting in this novel. The study of a selection from this novel will help students realize the impact of dialect in literature as well as their own speaking and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- 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.
- E-pal Adventure
- Students will be paired with an e-pal they will hopefully meet during their 8th grade trip to the coast.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Hilda Hamilton.
- Folklife
- Students will learn North Carolina folklore, traditions, war activities, local legends, superstitions, food preparation traditions, art, songs and dances which are unique to the area.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Music Education, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies)
- By Carolyn Early.
- 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.
- 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.
- Interpreting a Short Story
- Students will study the literary genre of the short story and examine how, through writing, an author can comment directly/indirectly on our society as a whole. Hopefully, the students will develop an awareness of the problems/concerns facing our society and an appreciation of how a skilled writer can mirror society's ills and sometimes offer solutions for the problems that plague us.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Regina Johnson.
- Is No Man An Island?
- This unit is designed to encourage thinking about our connectedness to and responsibilities toward others. Materials in this unit are used to demonstrate humankind's need to refute an impersonal natural order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Jewell Kendrick.
- 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)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech
- Students will display their understanding of the symbolism and references that Dr. King used to enrich his famous speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by constructing a “jackdaw,” a collection of documents and objects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Charlotte Lammers.
- 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.
- Paving the Road to the Constitution
- Students will be able to assess the strengths and weaknessess of the Articles of Confederation as related to the United States and North Carolina. Students will be able to demonstrate an argument for or against ratification of the United States Constitution.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Kim Bennett.
