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Skill plan for Amplify ELA - Grade 8

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8A	Unit 8A Perspectives & Narrative
Sub-unit 1: Welcome
Sub-unit 1: Welcome


Sub-unit 2: Get Started		Writing 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Suggest appropriate revisions 4. Formatting quotations and dialogue Reading 5. Identify sensory details 6. Compare passages for tone 7. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 1
Sub-unit 2: Get Started
Writing 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Suggest appropriate revisions 4. Formatting quotations and dialogue Reading 5. Identify sensory details 6. Compare passages for tone 7. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 1

Sub-unit 3: Narrative Writing		Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Reading 2. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 2 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Determine the author's point of view 5. Trace an argument 6. Identify the author's purpose Grammar 7. Identify adjectives 8. Form the progressive verb tenses
Sub-unit 3: Narrative Writing
Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Reading 2. Analyze passages from Travels with Charley: Part 2 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Determine the author's point of view 5. Trace an argument 6. Identify the author's purpose Grammar 7. Identify adjectives 8. Form the progressive verb tenses

Sub-unit 4: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Identify counterclaims 4. Correct errors with signs 5. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Sub-unit 4: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Identify counterclaims 4. Correct errors with signs 5. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

8B	Unit 8B Liberty & Equality
Sub-unit 1: "Song of Myself"		Reading 1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Interpret figures of speech
Sub-unit 1: "Song of Myself"
Reading 1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Interpret figures of speech

Sub-unit 2: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass		Vocabulary 1. Positive and negative connotation 2. Find words using context Writing 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 4. Evaluate counterclaims 5. Compare and contrast in informational texts Reading 6. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1 7. Compare information from two texts
Sub-unit 2: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Vocabulary 1. Positive and negative connotation 2. Find words using context Writing 3. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 4. Evaluate counterclaims 5. Compare and contrast in informational texts Reading 6. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1 7. Compare information from two texts

Sub-unit 3: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl		Grammar 1. What does the punctuation suggest?
Sub-unit 3: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Grammar 1. What does the punctuation suggest?

Sub-unit 4: The Boys' War		Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 2. Words with pre- 3. Words with re-
Sub-unit 4: The Boys' War
Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 2. Words with pre- 3. Words with re-

Sub-unit 5: The Gettysburg Address		Vocabulary 1. Use the correct frequently confused word 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Reading 3. Compare two texts with different genres
Sub-unit 5: The Gettysburg Address
Vocabulary 1. Use the correct frequently confused word 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Reading 3. Compare two texts with different genres

Sub-unit 6: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 3. Commas: review 4. Correct errors in everyday use
Sub-unit 6: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 3. Commas: review 4. Correct errors in everyday use

Sub-unit 8: The Emancipation Project		Vocabulary 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Words with -ful Reading 4. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2 5. Determine the main idea of a passage
Sub-unit 8: The Emancipation Project
Vocabulary 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Words with -ful Reading 4. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2 5. Determine the main idea of a passage

8C	Unit 8C Science & Science Fiction
Sub-unit 1: Gris Grimly's Frankenstein		Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Identify counterclaims 3. Suggest appropriate revisions 4. Remove redundant words or phrases Reading 5. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 6. Determine the author's point of view 7. Determine the themes of short stories 8. Identify sensory details Grammar 9. Combine sentences using relative clauses
Sub-unit 1: Gris Grimly's Frankenstein
Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim 2. Identify counterclaims 3. Suggest appropriate revisions 4. Remove redundant words or phrases Reading 5. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 6. Determine the author's point of view 7. Determine the themes of short stories 8. Identify sensory details Grammar 9. Combine sentences using relative clauses

Sub-unit 2: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue 3. Correct errors with frequently confused words
Sub-unit 2: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue 3. Correct errors with frequently confused words

Sub-unit 3: Poetical Science		Reading 1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Interpret figures of speech
Sub-unit 3: Poetical Science
Reading 1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Interpret figures of speech

8D	Unit 8D Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Sub-unit 1: Romeo and Juliet		Vocabulary 1. Choose the synonym 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 4. Describe the difference between related words Writing 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts Reading 6. Label the rhyme scheme 7. Compare information from two texts 8. Classify figures of speech 9. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar 10. Order adjectives
Sub-unit 1: Romeo and Juliet
Vocabulary 1. Choose the synonym 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 4. Describe the difference between related words Writing 5. Identify supporting details in literary texts Reading 6. Label the rhyme scheme 7. Compare information from two texts 8. Classify figures of speech 9. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar 10. Order adjectives

Sub-unit 2: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Use the correct frequently confused word 5. Correct errors with signs
Sub-unit 2: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 4. Use the correct frequently confused word 5. Correct errors with signs

8E	Unit 8E Holocaust: Memory & Meaning
Sub-unit 1: Why Remember?		Reading 1. Identify elements of poetry
Sub-unit 1: Why Remember?
Reading 1. Identify elements of poetry

Sub-unit 2: "True" Germans		Reading 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Sub-unit 2: "True" Germans
Reading 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Evaluate newspaper headlines for bias 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1

Sub-unit 3: The Olympic Games of Berlin		Vocabulary 1. Words with sub- 2. Words with mis- Reading 3. Determine the main idea of a passage 4. Match causes and effects in informational texts
Sub-unit 3: The Olympic Games of Berlin
Vocabulary 1. Words with sub- 2. Words with mis- Reading 3. Determine the main idea of a passage 4. Match causes and effects in informational texts

Sub-unit 4: Descending Into Darkness		Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Reading 2. Analyze passages from Night: Part 1 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Sub-unit 4: Descending Into Darkness
Writing 1. Choose evidence to support a claim Reading 2. Analyze passages from Night: Part 1 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Sub-unit 5: Never Forget		Writing 1. Use words accurately and precisely Reading 2. Analyze passages from Night: Part 2
Sub-unit 5: Never Forget
Writing 1. Use words accurately and precisely Reading 2. Analyze passages from Night: Part 2

Sub-unit 6: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Correct errors with frequently confused words
Sub-unit 6: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Identify thesis statements 2. Correct errors with frequently confused words

8F	Unit 8F The Space Race Collection
Sub-unit 1: Information Literacy		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Writing 2. Identify relevant sources 3. Identify plagiarism
Sub-unit 1: Information Literacy
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Writing 2. Identify relevant sources 3. Identify plagiarism

Sub-unit 2: Scavenger Hunt and Internet Research		Vocabulary 1. Words with -less 2. Words with -able and -ible Writing 3. Distinguish facts from opinions
Sub-unit 2: Scavenger Hunt and Internet Research
Vocabulary 1. Words with -less 2. Words with -able and -ible Writing 3. Distinguish facts from opinions

Sub-unit 3: Space Blogs and Collection Research		Vocabulary 1. Choose the antonym Reading 2. Identify the narrative point of view
Sub-unit 3: Space Blogs and Collection Research
Vocabulary 1. Choose the antonym Reading 2. Identify the narrative point of view

Sub-unit 4: Socratic Seminar and Internet Research		Vocabulary 1. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational Reading 2. Read and understand informational passages
Sub-unit 4: Socratic Seminar and Internet Research
Vocabulary 1. Use academic vocabulary in context: informational Reading 2. Read and understand informational passages

Sub-unit 5: Write an Essay		Writing 1. Trace an argument 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 4. Use the correct homophone 5. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Sub-unit 5: Write an Essay
Writing 1. Trace an argument 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 4. Use the correct homophone 5. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

G	Grammar Grade 8
Sub-unit 1: What Is a Complete Sentence?		Subjects and predicates 1. Identify common and proper nouns 2. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 3. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence 4. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence 5. Identify gerunds and their functions 6. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases 7. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Complete sentences 8. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 9. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 10. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
Sub-unit 1: What Is a Complete Sentence?
Subjects and predicates 1. Identify common and proper nouns 2. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 3. Identify the compound subject or compound predicate of a sentence 4. Identify the complete subject or complete predicate of a sentence 5. Identify gerunds and their functions 6. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases 7. Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns Complete sentences 8. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? 9. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 10. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

Sub-unit 2: Expanding the Complete Sentence		Adjectives 1. Identify adjectives 2. Order adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 4. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst Adverbs 5. Identify adverbs 6. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 7. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Adjectives vs. adverbs 8. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 9. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Prepositions 10. Identify prepositional phrases Appositives 11. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Modifiers 12. Misplaced modifiers with pictures Phrases and clauses 13. Is it a phrase or a clause? 14. Identify dependent and independent clauses Sentences 15. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 16. Combine sentences using relative clauses 17. Use coordinating conjunctions 18. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Sub-unit 2: Expanding the Complete Sentence
Adjectives 1. Identify adjectives 2. Order adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 4. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst Adverbs 5. Identify adverbs 6. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 7. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Adjectives vs. adverbs 8. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 9. Is the word an adjective or adverb? Prepositions 10. Identify prepositional phrases Appositives 11. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Modifiers 12. Misplaced modifiers with pictures Phrases and clauses 13. Is it a phrase or a clause? 14. Identify dependent and independent clauses Sentences 15. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 16. Combine sentences using relative clauses 17. Use coordinating conjunctions 18. Commas with compound and complex sentences

Sub-unit 3: Understanding the Pronoun		1. Choose between subject and object pronouns 2. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" 3. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns 4. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 5. Use reflexive pronouns
Sub-unit 3: Understanding the Pronoun
1. Choose between subject and object pronouns 2. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" 3. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns 4. Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns 5. Use reflexive pronouns

Sub-unit 4: Pronoun Usage: Agreement and Reference		Agreement 1. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 2. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 3. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 4. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 5. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Reference 6. Identify vague pronoun references 7. Identify all of the possible antecedents Correcting errors 8. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Sub-unit 4: Pronoun Usage: Agreement and Reference
Agreement 1. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 2. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent 3. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 4. Use relative pronouns: who and whom 5. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that Reference 6. Identify vague pronoun references 7. Identify all of the possible antecedents Correcting errors 8. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

Sub-unit 5: Verb Tense		1. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs 2. Irregular past tense: review 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Form the perfect verb tenses 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Sub-unit 5: Verb Tense
1. Identify transitive and intransitive verbs 2. Irregular past tense: review 3. Form the progressive verb tenses 4. Form the perfect verb tenses 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Sub-unit 6: Verb Moods, Modals, and Voice		Mood 1. Identify the verb mood 2. Correct errors with verb mood Voice 3. Identify active and passive voice 4. Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Sub-unit 6: Verb Moods, Modals, and Voice
Mood 1. Identify the verb mood 2. Correct errors with verb mood Voice 3. Identify active and passive voice 4. Rewrite the sentence in active voice

Sub-unit 7: Punctuation		Commas, colons, semicolons 1. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 2. Commas with coordinate adjectives 3. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 4. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists Ellipses and dashes 5. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately 6. Use dashes
Sub-unit 7: Punctuation
Commas, colons, semicolons 1. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 2. Commas with coordinate adjectives 3. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 4. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists Ellipses and dashes 5. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately 6. Use dashes

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