IXL skill plan | 8th grade plan for Into Literature (Version 2)

Skill plan for Into Literature (Version 2) - 8th grade

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1	Unit 1 Gadgets and Glitches
Analyze & Apply
1: The Brave Little Toaster
1: The Brave Little Toaster

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Find words using context Conventions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Find words using context Conventions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses

2: Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?
2: Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use the correct frequently confused word Conventions 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use the correct frequently confused word Conventions 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context

3: Interflora
3: Interflora

Get Ready & Read:		1. Label the rhyme scheme
Get Ready & Read:
1. Label the rhyme scheme
Respond:		1. Interpret figures of speech
Respond:
1. Interpret figures of speech
Collaborate & Compare
4: The Automation Paradox / Heads Up, Humans
4: The Automation Paradox / Heads Up, Humans

Get Ready & Read:		1. Read graphic organizers 2. Distinguish facts from opinions 3. Choose evidence to support a claim
Get Ready & Read:
1. Read graphic organizers 2. Distinguish facts from opinions 3. Choose evidence to support a claim
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary entries Conventions 2. Use coordinating conjunctions 3. Identify active and passive voice
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary entries Conventions 2. Use coordinating conjunctions 3. Identify active and passive voice
End of Unit Tasks
9: Write an Informational Essay		Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts Editing and revision 3. Correct errors with frequently confused words 4. Suggest appropriate revisions
9: Write an Informational Essay
Organization 1. Organize information by topic 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts Editing and revision 3. Correct errors with frequently confused words 4. Suggest appropriate revisions

2	Unit 2 The Thrill of Horror
Analyze & Apply
1: What is the Horror Genre?
1: What is the Horror Genre?

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Identify thesis statements
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Identify thesis statements
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Analogies Conventions 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Analogies Conventions 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

2: The Tell-Tale Heart
2: The Tell-Tale Heart

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Is it a phrase or a clause? 3. Use dashes
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Is it a phrase or a clause? 3. Use dashes

3: The Hollow
3: The Hollow

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify sensory details 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify sensory details 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Respond:		1. Compare passages for tone
Respond:
1. Compare passages for tone
Collaborate & Compare
4: The Monkey's Paw
4: The Monkey's Paw

Get Ready & Read:		1. Determine the themes of short stories
Get Ready & Read:
1. Determine the themes of short stories
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Simple past, present, and future tense: review
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Simple past, present, and future tense: review

4: from The Monkey's Paw
4: from The Monkey's Paw

Respond:		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Respond:
1. Compare two texts with different genres
End of Unit Tasks
10: Write a Literary Analysis		Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 2 Supporting details and evidence 3. Organize information by topic Editing and revision 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Suggest appropriate revisions
10: Write a Literary Analysis
Analyze texts 1. Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from The Giver: Part 2 Supporting details and evidence 3. Organize information by topic Editing and revision 4. Commas with nonrestrictive elements 5. Suggest appropriate revisions

3	Unit 3 Places We Call Home
Analyze & Apply
1: My Favorite Chaperone
1: My Favorite Chaperone

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Conventions 2. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify prepositional phrases
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Conventions 2. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify prepositional phrases

2: from The Book of Unknown Americans
2: from The Book of Unknown Americans

Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Choose between subject and object pronouns 3. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use dictionary definitions Conventions 2. Choose between subject and object pronouns 3. Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me"

3: Spirit Walking in the Tundra
3: Spirit Walking in the Tundra

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify figures of speech
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify figures of speech
Respond:		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Respond:
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Collaborate & Compare
4: New Immigrants Share Their Stories / A Common Bond
4: New Immigrants Share Their Stories / A Common Bond

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Read and understand informational passages
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Read and understand informational passages
Respond:		1. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 2. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
Respond:
1. Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses 2. Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
Compare:		1. Compare information from two texts
Compare:
1. Compare information from two texts
End of Unit Tasks
11: Write a Short Story		Narrative writing 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Determine the themes of short stories 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Grammar 4. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns Editing 5. Create varied sentences based on models 6. Correct errors with signs
11: Write a Short Story
Narrative writing 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Determine the themes of short stories 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Grammar 4. Compound subjects and objects with pronouns Editing 5. Create varied sentences based on models 6. Correct errors with signs

4	Unit 4 The Fight for Freedom
Analyze & Apply
1: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
1: from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Get Ready & Read:		1. Match causes and effects in informational texts 2. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Match causes and effects in informational texts 2. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 1 3. Analyze passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Part 2
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Describe the difference between related words 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 3. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Describe the difference between related words 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Conventions 3. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 4. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent

2: from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
2: from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 2 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 1 2. Analyze passages from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Part 2 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words Conventions 2. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 3. Commas with compound and complex sentences

3: The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
3: The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Get Ready & Read:		1. Classify figures of speech
Get Ready & Read:
1. Classify figures of speech
Respond:		Conventions 1. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?
Respond:
Conventions 1. Identify the simple subject or simple predicate of a sentence 2. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on?

4: O Captain! My Captain!
4: O Captain! My Captain!

Get Ready & Read:		1. Compare passages for tone 2. Positive and negative connotation
Get Ready & Read:
1. Compare passages for tone 2. Positive and negative connotation
Respond:		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Respond:
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Collaborate & Compare
5: Not My Bones / from Fortune's Bones
5: Not My Bones / from Fortune's Bones

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify text structures
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify text structures
Respond:		1. Read and understand informational passages
Respond:
1. Read and understand informational passages
Compare:		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Compare:
1. Compare two texts with different genres
End of Unit Tasks
11: Write a Research Report		Organization 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? Supporting details and evidence 4. Distinguish facts from opinions Research skills 5. Identify relevant sources 6. Identify supporting details in informational texts 7. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 8. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 9. Identify plagiarism
11: Write a Research Report
Organization 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Identify thesis statements 3. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? Supporting details and evidence 4. Distinguish facts from opinions Research skills 5. Identify relevant sources 6. Identify supporting details in informational texts 7. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 8. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 9. Identify plagiarism

5	Unit 5 Finding Your Path
Analyze & Apply
1: The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain
1: The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify text structures 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 3. Identify audience and purpose
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify text structures 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 3. Identify audience and purpose
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Conventions 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person 3. Identify vague pronoun references 4. Identify all of the possible antecedents
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Conventions 2. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person 3. Identify vague pronoun references 4. Identify all of the possible antecedents

2: from Bronx Masquerade
2: from Bronx Masquerade

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze short stories
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze short stories
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Which sentence matches the definition? Conventions 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Which sentence matches the definition? Conventions 2. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
Collaborate & Compare: Poems
3: Hanging Fire / Summer of His Fourteenth Year
3: Hanging Fire / Summer of His Fourteenth Year

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry
Respond:		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Respond:
1. Match the quotations with their themes
Compare Poems:		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Compare Poems:
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Collaborate & Compare: Arguments
4: from It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens / Outsmart Your Smartphone
4: from It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens / Outsmart Your Smartphone

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify counterclaims 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Trace an argument 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 5. Classify logical fallacies 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify counterclaims 2. Evaluate counterclaims 3. Trace an argument 4. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 5. Classify logical fallacies 6. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 4. Commas with compound and complex sentences 5. Word pattern sentences
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Conventions 3. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex? 4. Commas with compound and complex sentences 5. Word pattern sentences
Compare:		1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts
Compare:
1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts
End of Unit Tasks
10: Write an Argument		Organization 1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Supporting details and evidence 2. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Persuasive strategies 4. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing Grammar 5. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 6. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Revision 7. Remove redundant words or phrases
10: Write an Argument
Organization 1. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim Supporting details and evidence 2. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 3. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims Persuasive strategies 4. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing Grammar 5. Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst 6. Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst Revision 7. Remove redundant words or phrases

6	Unit 6 The Legacy of Anne Frank
Analyze & Apply
1: The Diary of Anne Frank
1: The Diary of Anne Frank

Get Ready & Read:		1. Determine the themes of short stories 2. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Determine the themes of short stories 2. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 1
Respond:		Vocabulary 1. Words with pre- 2. Words with re- 3. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- Conventions 4. Correct capitalization errors
Respond:
Vocabulary 1. Words with pre- 2. Words with re- 3. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- Conventions 4. Correct capitalization errors

2: from The Diary of a Young Girl
2: from The Diary of a Young Girl

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze passages from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: Part 2
Respond:		1. Positive and negative connotation
Respond:
1. Positive and negative connotation

3: After Auschwitz
3: After Auschwitz

Get Ready & Read:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Get Ready & Read:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
Respond:		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Respond:
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Collaborate & Compare
4: There But for the Grace / Days
4: There But for the Grace / Days

Get Ready & Read:		1. Identify elements of poetry
Get Ready & Read:
1. Identify elements of poetry
Respond:		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Respond:
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Compare:		1. Compare passages for tone
Compare:
1. Compare passages for tone
End of Unit Tasks
10: Write a Personal Narrative		Narrative writing 1. Identify sensory details 2. Identify the narrative point of view 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Editing 4. Formatting and capitalizing titles: review 5. Correct errors in everyday use
10: Write a Personal Narrative
Narrative writing 1. Identify sensory details 2. Identify the narrative point of view 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue Editing 4. Formatting and capitalizing titles: review 5. Correct errors in everyday use

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