IXL skill plan | 8th grade plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021

Skill plan for SpringBoard ELA 2021 - 8th grade

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1	Unit 1 The Challenge of Heroism
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 1.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 1.2: Understanding Challenges
Activity 1.2: Understanding Challenges


Activity 1.3: Understanding the Hero's Journey Archetype		1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 2. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?
Activity 1.3: Understanding the Hero's Journey Archetype
1. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 2. Is it a complete sentence or a fragment?

Activity 1.4: Planning for Independent Reading		1. Analyze short stories
Activity 1.4: Planning for Independent Reading
1. Analyze short stories

Activity 1.5: The Onset of Adventure		Reading strategies 1. Classify figures of speech 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Use personification Grammar and usage 4. Capitalizing titles 5. Formatting titles
Activity 1.5: The Onset of Adventure
Reading strategies 1. Classify figures of speech 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 3. Use personification Grammar and usage 4. Capitalizing titles 5. Formatting titles

Activity 1.6: The Departure		Reading strategies 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar and usage 3. Use coordinating conjunctions
Activity 1.6: The Departure
Reading strategies 1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar and usage 3. Use coordinating conjunctions

Activity 1.7: The Initiation		Reading strategies 1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects Word study 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 1.7: The Initiation
Reading strategies 1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects Word study 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 1.8: The Return		Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts Word study 2. Words with re- 3. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 4. Words with -able and -ible Grammar and usage 5. Identify prepositional phrases 6. Identify the verb mood Language checkpoint 7. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 8. Commas with compound and complex sentences 9. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Activity 1.8: The Return
Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts Word study 2. Words with re- 3. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 4. Words with -able and -ible Grammar and usage 5. Identify prepositional phrases 6. Identify the verb mood Language checkpoint 7. Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? 8. Commas with compound and complex sentences 9. Identify dependent and independent clauses

Activity 1.9: Revising and Editing		1. Correct capitalization errors 2. Use the correct frequently confused word 3. Suggest appropriate revisions
Activity 1.9: Revising and Editing
1. Correct capitalization errors 2. Use the correct frequently confused word 3. Suggest appropriate revisions

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Hero's Journey Narrative
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing a Hero's Journey Narrative


Activity 1.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2		1. Use dictionary entries 2. Analogies
Activity 1.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
1. Use dictionary entries 2. Analogies

Activity 1.11: The Nuance of Tone		1. Compare passages for tone 2. Positive and negative connotation 3. Describe the difference between related words
Activity 1.11: The Nuance of Tone
1. Compare passages for tone 2. Positive and negative connotation 3. Describe the difference between related words

Activity 1.12: Physical and Emotional Challenges		Reading strategies 1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Compare two texts with different genres Grammar and usage 3. Is it a phrase or a clause? 4. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 5. Commas with nonrestrictive elements
Activity 1.12: Physical and Emotional Challenges
Reading strategies 1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Compare two texts with different genres Grammar and usage 3. Is it a phrase or a clause? 4. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 5. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

Activity 1.13: Definition Strategies		Reading strategies 1. Read and understand informational passages Word study 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Writer's craft 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Activity 1.13: Definition Strategies
Reading strategies 1. Read and understand informational passages Word study 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Writer's craft 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Activity 1.14: Historical Heroes: Examples		Reading strategies 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Word study 2. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Grammar and usage 3. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
Activity 1.14: Historical Heroes: Examples
Reading strategies 1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone Word study 2. Determine the meaning of domain-specific words with pictures Grammar and usage 3. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?

Activity 1.15: Transitions and Quotations		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Activity 1.15: Transitions and Quotations
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Activity 1.16: Negation Strategy of Definition		1. Identify supporting details in informational texts
Activity 1.16: Negation Strategy of Definition
1. Identify supporting details in informational texts

Activity 1.17: Explanatory Writing Focus: Organization		1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Remove redundant words or phrases
Activity 1.17: Explanatory Writing Focus: Organization
1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Remove redundant words or phrases

Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Definition Essay
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing a Definition Essay

2	Unit 2 The Challenge of Utopia
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 2.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 2.2: Informational Writing: Compare/Contrast		Reading strategies 1. Compare and contrast in informational texts Writing 2. Organize information by topic Word Study 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Activity 2.2: Informational Writing: Compare/Contrast
Reading strategies 1. Compare and contrast in informational texts Writing 2. Organize information by topic Word Study 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Activity 2.3: Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Reality		Reading strategies 1. Determine the themes of short stories Grammar and usage 2. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately 3. Use parallel structure Language checkpoint 4. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement
Activity 2.3: Utopian Ideals and Dystopian Reality
Reading strategies 1. Determine the themes of short stories Grammar and usage 2. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately 3. Use parallel structure Language checkpoint 4. Correct errors with subject-verb agreement

Activity 2.4: Previewing the novel		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
Activity 2.4: Previewing the novel
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words

Activity 2.5: Contemplating Conflicting Perspectives		1. Use the correct verb – with compound subjects
Activity 2.5: Contemplating Conflicting Perspectives
1. Use the correct verb – with compound subjects

Activity 2.6: Questioning Society		Reading strategies 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Grammar and usage 2. Identify common and proper nouns 3. Correct capitalization errors
Activity 2.6: Questioning Society
Reading strategies 1. Determine the main idea of a passage Grammar and usage 2. Identify common and proper nouns 3. Correct capitalization errors

Activity 2.7: A Shift in Perspective: Beginning the Adventure		1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 2.7: A Shift in Perspective: Beginning the Adventure
1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 2.8: Navigating the Road of Trials		1. Analyze short stories
Activity 2.8: Navigating the Road of Trials
1. Analyze short stories

Activity 2.9: The End of the Journey		Grammar and usage 1. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Writer's craft 2. Correct errors with verb mood 3. Identify active and passive voice
Activity 2.9: The End of the Journey
Grammar and usage 1. Identify appositives and appositive phrases Writer's craft 2. Correct errors with verb mood 3. Identify active and passive voice

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing an Informational Essay
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing an Informational Essay


Activity 2.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 2.10: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 2.11: Understanding Elements of Argumentation		1. Trace an argument 2. Choose evidence to support a claim
Activity 2.11: Understanding Elements of Argumentation
1. Trace an argument 2. Choose evidence to support a claim

Activity 2.12: Don't Hate — Debate!		1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
Activity 2.12: Don't Hate — Debate!
1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements

Activity 2.13: Highlighting Logos		Reading strategies 1. Classify logical fallacies 2. Identify counterclaims Word study 3. Which definition matches the sentence?
Activity 2.13: Highlighting Logos
Reading strategies 1. Classify logical fallacies 2. Identify counterclaims Word study 3. Which definition matches the sentence?

Activity 2.14: Forming and Supporting a Debatable Claim		1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
Activity 2.14: Forming and Supporting a Debatable Claim
1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim

Activity 2.15: Conducting Effective Research		Reading strategies 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Evaluate counterclaims Word study 3. Recall the source of an allusion
Activity 2.15: Conducting Effective Research
Reading strategies 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Evaluate counterclaims Word study 3. Recall the source of an allusion

Activity 2.16: Gathering and Citing Evidence		Reading strategies 1. Identify the author's purpose Writing 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Activity 2.16: Gathering and Citing Evidence
Reading strategies 1. Identify the author's purpose Writing 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)

Activity 2.17: Organizing and Revising Your Argument		Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Which sentence is more formal? 4. Create varied sentences based on models 5. Correct errors in everyday use Writer's Craft 6. Formatting quotations and dialogue 7. Identify plagiarism
Activity 2.17: Organizing and Revising Your Argument
Writing 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims 3. Which sentence is more formal? 4. Create varied sentences based on models 5. Correct errors in everyday use Writer's Craft 6. Formatting quotations and dialogue 7. Identify plagiarism

Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Argumentative Essay
Embedded Assessment 2: Writing an Argumentative Essay

3	Unit 3 The Challenge to Make a Difference
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 3.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 3.2: Preparing for Literature Circles		1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
Activity 3.2: Preparing for Literature Circles
1. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots

Activity 3.3: Understanding Literature Circle Discussions		1. Use coordinating conjunctions
Activity 3.3: Understanding Literature Circle Discussions
1. Use coordinating conjunctions

Activity 3.4: Making Thematic Connections		Reading strategies 1. Compare two texts with different genres Word study 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 3. Identify participles and what they modify
Activity 3.4: Making Thematic Connections
Reading strategies 1. Compare two texts with different genres Word study 2. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Grammar and usage 3. Identify participles and what they modify

Activity 3.5: Analyzing an Allegory		1. Identify sensory details 2. Analyze short stories
Activity 3.5: Analyzing an Allegory
1. Identify sensory details 2. Analyze short stories

Activity 3.6: Dangerous Diction		1. Positive and negative connotation
Activity 3.6: Dangerous Diction
1. Positive and negative connotation

Activity 3.7: Exploring the Museum		1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Activity 3.7: Exploring the Museum
1. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs

Activity 3.8: Presenting Voices		Word study 1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Writer's craft 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Rewrite the sentence in active voice
Activity 3.8: Presenting Voices
Word study 1. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Writer's craft 2. Identify active and passive voice 3. Rewrite the sentence in active voice

Activity 3.9: Analyzing Theme in Film		1. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Activity 3.9: Analyzing Theme in Film
1. Identify supporting details in literary texts

Activity 3.10: Dramatic Tone Shifts		Grammar and usage 1. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 2. Identify vague pronoun references 3. Use dashes Language checkpoint 4. Commas: review 5. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
Activity 3.10: Dramatic Tone Shifts
Grammar and usage 1. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 2. Identify vague pronoun references 3. Use dashes Language checkpoint 4. Commas: review 5. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?

Activity 3.11: A Tale of Survival and Hope		1. Determine the themes of short stories 2. Which definition matches the sentence?
Activity 3.11: A Tale of Survival and Hope
1. Determine the themes of short stories 2. Which definition matches the sentence?

Activity 3.12: Creating a Memorable Opening		Reading strategies 1. Identify elements of poetry Word study 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
Activity 3.12: Creating a Memorable Opening
Reading strategies 1. Identify elements of poetry Word study 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context

Embedded Assessment 1: Presenting Voices of the Holocaust
Embedded Assessment 1: Presenting Voices of the Holocaust


Activity 3.13: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 3.13: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 3.14: Making a Difference		1. Identify audience and purpose
Activity 3.14: Making a Difference
1. Identify audience and purpose

Activity 3.15: Never Forget, Never Again		Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Recall the source of an allusion Writer's craft 3. Combine sentences using relative clauses 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Activity 3.15: Never Forget, Never Again
Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 2. Recall the source of an allusion Writer's craft 3. Combine sentences using relative clauses 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that

Activity 3.16: Students Taking Action		Reading strategies 1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Grammar and usage 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters
Activity 3.16: Students Taking Action
Reading strategies 1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Grammar and usage 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters

Activity 3.17: From Vision to Action		Reading strategies 1. Compare information from two texts 2. Read and understand informational passages Word study 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Activity 3.17: From Vision to Action
Reading strategies 1. Compare information from two texts 2. Read and understand informational passages Word study 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Activity 3.18: Examining Media Campaigns		1. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 2. Classify logical fallacies
Activity 3.18: Examining Media Campaigns
1. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 2. Classify logical fallacies

Activity 3.19: Raising Awareness		Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Form the progressive verb tenses 3. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Language checkpoint 4. Simple past, present, and future tense: review 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Activity 3.19: Raising Awareness
Reading strategies 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 Grammar and usage 2. Form the progressive verb tenses 3. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? Language checkpoint 4. Simple past, present, and future tense: review 5. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Embedded Assessment 2: Presenting a Multimedia Campaign
Embedded Assessment 2: Presenting a Multimedia Campaign

4	Unit 4 The Challenge of Comedy
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit
Activity 4.1: Previewing the Unit


Activity 4.2: Understanding the Complexity of Humor		Word study 1. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 2. Describe the difference between related words Grammar and usage 3. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent Writer's craft 4. Identify all of the possible antecedents 5. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Activity 4.2: Understanding the Complexity of Humor
Word study 1. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 2. Describe the difference between related words Grammar and usage 3. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent Writer's craft 4. Identify all of the possible antecedents 5. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

Activity 4.3: Classifying Comedy		1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Determine the author's point of view
Activity 4.3: Classifying Comedy
1. Identify audience and purpose 2. Determine the author's point of view

Activity 4.4: Humorous Anecdotes		Reading strategies 1. Classify figures of speech Writer's craft 2. Identify participles and what they modify 3. Identify gerunds and their functions
Activity 4.4: Humorous Anecdotes
Reading strategies 1. Classify figures of speech Writer's craft 2. Identify participles and what they modify 3. Identify gerunds and their functions

Activity 4.5: Finding Truth in Comedy		1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Use words accurately and precisely
Activity 4.5: Finding Truth in Comedy
1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Use words accurately and precisely

Activity 4.6: Satirical Humor		Writing strategies 1. Identify text structures Grammar and usage 2. Rewrite the sentence in active voice Writer's craft 3. Identify the verb mood 4. Correct errors with verb mood
Activity 4.6: Satirical Humor
Writing strategies 1. Identify text structures Grammar and usage 2. Rewrite the sentence in active voice Writer's craft 3. Identify the verb mood 4. Correct errors with verb mood

Activity 4.7: Elements of Humor: Comic Characters and Caricatures		Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts Word study 2. Find words using context
Activity 4.7: Elements of Humor: Comic Characters and Caricatures
Reading strategies 1. Identify supporting details in literary texts Word study 2. Find words using context

Activity 4.8: Elements of Humor: Comic Situations		Writing 1. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases Word study 2. Which sentence matches the definition? 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Language checkpoint 4. Use the correct homophone 5. Use the correct frequently confused word 6. Correct errors with frequently confused words
Activity 4.8: Elements of Humor: Comic Situations
Writing 1. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases Word study 2. Which sentence matches the definition? 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context Language checkpoint 4. Use the correct homophone 5. Use the correct frequently confused word 6. Correct errors with frequently confused words

Activity 4.9: Elements of Humor: Hyperbole		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Activity 4.9: Elements of Humor: Hyperbole
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Activity 4.10: Elements of Comedy: Comic Wordplay		Reading strategies 1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Identify elements of poetry Word study 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Activity 4.10: Elements of Comedy: Comic Wordplay
Reading strategies 1. Interpret figures of speech 2. Identify elements of poetry Word study 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Activity 4.11: Planning and Revising an Analysis of a Humorous Text		1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 2. Correct errors with signs
Activity 4.11: Planning and Revising an Analysis of a Humorous Text
1. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea 2. Correct errors with signs

Embedded Assessment 1: Writing an Analysis of a Humorous Text
Embedded Assessment 1: Writing an Analysis of a Humorous Text


Activity 4.12: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
Activity 4.12: Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2


Activity 4.13: Analyzing Multiple Points of View		1. Identify the narrative point of view
Activity 4.13: Analyzing Multiple Points of View
1. Identify the narrative point of view

Activity 4.14: Creating Context for Shakespearean Comedy
Activity 4.14: Creating Context for Shakespearean Comedy


Activity 4.15: Insulting Language
Activity 4.15: Insulting Language


Activity 4.16: Close Reading of a Scene		1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters
Activity 4.16: Close Reading of a Scene
1. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters

Activity 4.17: Acting Companies and Collaborative Close Reading
Activity 4.17: Acting Companies and Collaborative Close Reading


Activity 4.18: Facing the Challenge of Performance		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Compare information from two texts
Activity 4.18: Facing the Challenge of Performance
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 2. Compare information from two texts

Activity 4.19: Working with Acting Companies and Focus Groups
Activity 4.19: Working with Acting Companies and Focus Groups


Activity 4.20: Same Text, Different Text		1. Compare two texts with different genres
Activity 4.20: Same Text, Different Text
1. Compare two texts with different genres

Activity 4.21: Dress Rehearsal
Activity 4.21: Dress Rehearsal


Embedded Assessment 2: Performing Shakespearean Comedy
Embedded Assessment 2: Performing Shakespearean Comedy

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