Standard Course of Study English Language Arts (2004) Grade 8 Goal 6 Objective 6.01

English Language Arts — Grade 8

Goal 6, Objective 6.01

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The ABC's of the Three Little Pigs
This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.
Author: Penny Canipe
Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
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.
Author: Jeanne Munoz
Format: lesson plan (grades 4, 8)
Creating found poetry from picture books
Students select and read a picture book and afterwards create “found poetry” based on the picture book.
Author: Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
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.
Author: Barbara Groome
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
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.
Author: Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
E-pal Adventure
Students will be paired with an e-pal they will hopefully meet during their 8th grade trip to the coast.
Author: Hilda Hamilton
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Eight Parts of Speech Grammar Project
This project represents the culminating activity for a study of the eight parts of speech and presents the student a creative manner of expressing mastery of the functions of each part of speech. A ten paragraph paper is produced developing a life model reflecting the functions of each part of speech. Prior to this assignment biographies have been read, and students have created large life maps chronologically charting their lives. Students then are ready to relate various life experiences to the functions of the parts of speech. Students represent the noun; various life experiences must be shown to reflect the definitions of the parts of speech.
Author: Suzanne Brookshire
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Experimental archaeology: Making cordage
Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
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.
Author: Leslie Ramsey
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Grammar Scramblers, Spreadsheets, and Parts of Speech
Students use and create Grammar Scramblers with a spreadsheet in order to practice identifying and using parts of speech in a fun way.
Author: Tom Munk
Format: lesson plan (grades 3–9)
Learn New Words Using Context.
With guided practice students will use context clues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words in short passages. When students have completed the practice activities, they will read a newspaper or magazine article, picking out unfamiliar words and using context clues to decide what the word means. As a group activity they will share the article, the words, and their meanings with the class.
Author: Betty DeLuca
Format: lesson plan (grades 4–8)
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.
Author: Pam Altom
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Which Word Is It?
Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words using Context Clues, a dictionary, and structural analysis within a game format.
Author: Donna Harkey
Format: lesson plan (grades 7–8)
Why Come to America?
The success of the U.S. as a world power, an advocate of individuals' rights, and a worldwide defender of freedom is due primarily to our uniquely rich and varied heritage. This culture is a composite of the aspects of each of the immigrant populations that make up our population. An understanding of the strength and commitment of these immigrants, as well as a look at the prejudices endured by many, helps us to better understand who we are today.
Author: Teddi Benson
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Authentic persuasive writing to promote summer reading
Invites students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres to explore during the summer months.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grades 8–9)
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.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)
Book report alternative: Creating careers for characters
Students become characters in a novel or short story they have read and find a job for those characters.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Campaigning for fair use: Public service announcements on copyright awareness
In this lesson that introduces issues of fair usage and copyright laws, students create audio public service announcements that can be broadcast over the school's public address system or published as podcasts on the Internet.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grades 7–8)
Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa"
Students use an interactive chart to keep track of their thoughts as they work with their own autobiographical information.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grade 8)
Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience
In this lesson that focuses on reading and writing, students discuss various stories and plan their own adventure story.
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Format: lesson plan (grades 6–8)

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