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English Language Arts — Grade 8
Goal 5, Objective 5.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Christmas Carol Chronology
- Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts)
- By Judy Gibbs.
- 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.
- Creating found poetry from picture books
- Students select and read a picture book and afterwards create “found poetry” based on the picture book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- 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.
- Inference by analogy
- Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- 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.
- Jim Crow and segregation
- This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Burnetta Barton.
- The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Students will evaluate a sampling of literary selections by Edgar Allan Poe and assess the influence of Poe's life on his works.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Peggy Stanley.
- 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.
- 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.
- N.C.- The Rip Van Winkle State
- This lesson introduces students to Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" and correlates it with the history of North Carolina. In the 1800s North Carolina was nicknamed "The Rip Van Winkle State."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kay D. Lopossay.
- A renaissance of jazz and poetry
- The Harlem Renaissance was the birth of a creative plethora in all fields of art for African Americans. The poetry and jazz composed during or inspired by this era naturally complemented each other. Furthermore, many of the themes from the musical and literary worlds are universal and provide a great lesson on how two different works can have a parallel theme.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–12 Music Education and English Language Arts)
- By Janet Fore.
- Seven directions: Making connections between literature and American Indian history
- This middle school lesson uses picture books to integrate American Indian culture and belief systems with language and visual arts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
- By Edie McDowell.
- Sticky-Note Discussions
- Sticky-Notes discussions are fun, add variety to reading, and allow students to respond to the written text immediately. They are easy to implement in all content areas. Sticky-Note discussions are effective when used individually, in a small or large group, or a combination of settings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–8 English Language Arts)
- By Kim Rector.
- Understanding the Complexities of Setting
- In order to address a variety of learning styles with emphasis upon the tactile learner, students will participate in a class project to construct a wall-sized, three dimensional mural of the setting of the novel, Where the Lilies Bloom. This project cannot be too large. (An outside corridor wall is suggested.) The massive size of the mural makes the project distinctly different from similar art projects attempted in the past; it and also allows students enough space for all of the details desired in the end result of the mural; and affords enough space for all students in the class to display their work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education)
- By Pam Altom.
- Walk Two Moons: An Integrated Unit
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a bittersweet story of a teenager who desperately wants to be reunited with her mother. This unit is an integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Mathematics)
- By Janet Fore.
Lesson plans on the web
- Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A connotation mini-lesson
- In this lesson that introduces connotation in literature, students examine familiar car names (such as Avalanche, Aztek, Bravada, Suburban or Vue) for underlying meaning. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Battling for liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's language of resistance
- This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Book report alternative: Creating a childhood for a character
- In this lesson, students examine the character traits of an adult character in a book they have read, create a childhood for the character, and describe that childhood in the form of a short story, journal entry, or time capsule letter. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
