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Grade 8
Contents
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Unit 1
Activities
1.1 Previewing the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
1.2 Understanding Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
1.3 Opening with Imagery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
Novel: Excerpt from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
1.4 Visual Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . .. .
1.5 Understanding the Hero’s Journey Archetype . . . . ....... . .. .
Poetry: “Saturday at the Canal,” by Gary Soto
1.6 The Departure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . .. .
Short Story: “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” by Ray Bradbury
1.7 The Initiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... .
Narrative Poetry: From the Odyssey, by Homer
1.8 Language and Writer’s Craft: Revising and Editing . ......... .
introducing the strategy: self-editing/Peer-editing
1.9 The Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Novel: Excerpt from A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
embedded Assessment 1: writing a hero’s Journey narrative . . . . . . . .
1.10 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2 and the Definition Essay
1.11 The Nuance of Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.12 Physical and Emotional Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
introducing the strategy: tP-CAstt
the Challenge of heroism
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Poetry: “A Man,” by Nina Cassian
Article: “Soldier home after losing his leg in Afghanistan,” by Gale Fiege
introducing the strategy: Free writing
1.13 Definition Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................... . . . . Poetry: “Sonnet 116,” by William Shakespeare
Article: “Where I Find My Heroes,” by Oliver Stone
1.14 Historical Heroes: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................... . . . . Sermon: Excerpt from White House Funeral Sermon for Abraham Lincoln, by Dr. Phineas D. Gurley Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Poetry: “Frederick Douglass,” by Robert Hayden
Autobiography: Excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
by Frederick Douglass
1.15 Language and Writer’s Craft: Transitions and Quotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.16 Negation Strategy of Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Essay: “A Definition of a Gentleman,” by John Henry Newman
1.17 Expository Writing Focus: Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
embedded Assessment 2: writing a definition essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *Texts not included in these materials.
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