8th ELA Lesson Plans - January 3-12, 2024

Teachers : Angela Davis, David Covey

Unit/ Session: 

HMH Unit 3: “Places Called Home”

Date(s) of Instruction: January 3-12, 2024

Content and Language Standards: 

ELAGSE8RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

ELAGSE8RL3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

ELAGSE8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. 

Learning Target: 

I will identify and analyze character and theme.

I will use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.

Success Criteria: 

I will be successful when I can use text evidence to describe characters and themes.

I will be successful when I can use context clues to find the correct meaning of unfamiliar words.

Opening     (I Do)

An engaging process for lesson introduction that is specifically planned to encourage equitable and purposeful student participation. Describe the instructional process that will be used to introduce the lesson.

TKES 1, 2, 3,4,5, 8,10

( Direct Instruction- Connection, Mini lesson) 

Big 5 Connection, Teach, Active Engagement, Link

Focus: Nouns

HMH Lesson Plan - The Book of Unknown Americans

Work Period  (We Do, You Do)

Students learn by doing/demonstrating learning expectations.  Describe the instructional process that will be used to engage the students in the work period.

TKES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. 8,10

(Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Collaboration, Differentiation)

Teaching Strategy/Instructional Process:

1/3/2024 - IXL Diagnostic

Whole Group:           ___ Video Lesson

                                     _X_ Introduce vocabulary

                                     _X_ Build background

                                     ___ Notes

                                     ___ Achieve

Small Group:             

                                      _X_ Strategy Group/Word Study/Listening 

                                      _X_ Acceleration - Higher Lexiles read more 

                                              advanced text                                                                              

                                      ___ Conference/Goal Setting

                                      _X_ Active Listening

                                      _X_ Test Prep - Theme/Characterization

                                         _X_  Independent Practice - Rosetta Stone/IXL

                                         _X_ HMH Read Text, “Book of Unknown…” 

                                         _X_ Graphic organizer

                                         _X_ RACER writing

                                         _X_ Selection test

Finished Early? Independent Reading - EPIC! Books or library books

Closing  (We Check)

Describe the instructional process that will be used to close the lesson and check for student understanding.

TKES : 1,2,3, 4,5,6,7,8  

(Summarize/SHARE)

Review these skills:

• Identifying theme

• Characterization vs. character traits

• Restating question for constructed response answers

Homework

Read 30 minutes or more in English or Spanish or practice skills on IXL.