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  • 8th Grade ELA 2019-2020
MONDAY, AUGUST 17
Welcome to Honors English!
Introduction to Wolpertworld.com
What is the Purpose of School? (see video)

TUESDAY
Chromebook assignments
Classroom Contitution (online and offline)

WEDNESDAY
DUE:Jurassic Park Posters
Argument Benchmark (period A)

THURSDAY
Argument Benchmark Assessment (Period B)

FRIDAY
DUE: Signed Introduction Letters
Signing our constitution
Argument Benchmark Assessment (Both classes)


MONDAY, August 24
Setting up our Digital Portfolios
(Pages: Home, About Me, Works in Progress, Final Drafts & Projects, Research Library), URL, Image, no last names/only first letter of last name, written assignment: What is the Purpose of school and my portfolio?)
Copywriting our Websites

TUESDAY
DUE: Digital Portfolio Shell 
Introduction to The Superhero Unit!
Ted Ed: The Science of Superheroes (video #1)
Google Form Submission

WEDNESDAY
DUE: Ted Ed: The Science of Superheroes (video #2) - due by 7:30am via Google Form
What's the difference between science and science-fiction? (Bring Jurassic Park book)

THURSDAY
Superhero character creation activity
Padlet Submission: What is your chosen super power?

FRIDAY
DUE: Dual Entry Journal of science vs. science-fiction in Jurassic Park (via submission form)
DUE: Bring in science-fiction book of your choice for independent reading assignment
Hemingway and the 6-word Memoir 




MONDAY, September 1
Pixar Rules of Storytelling
Research and Rough Drafts begin!
Hero's Journey Video
Read Write Think Plot Graphic Organizer

TUESDAY
DUE: Hardcopy Picture of your Superhero in costume + 6-word story!
Instagrok
How to use Wikipedia Wisely
Using Google Advanced Search

WEDNESDAY
About Me on your Digital Portfolio

THURSDAY
Disney Trends in Storytelling
Rough Drafts con't
Hyperlinking Research
Research Libraries on our Digital Portfolios

FRIDAY
DUE: Screenshot of Google Advanced Search (hardcopy)
Online Ethics

Rough Drafts con't





MONDAY, SEPT. 7
OFF

TUESDAY
DUE: Research Library Check (counts as a Quiz!)
Norms of Behavior for Guest Speaker
Citing an Interview

WEDNESDAY
About Me on your Digital Portfolio


THURSDAY
Guest Speaker: Dr. Spyridon Michaelakis


FRIDAY
DUE: Rough Drafts of Superhero Origin Stories (via submission form)
Thank you for Spiros
Grammar Lesson Wackiness






MONDAY
DUE: Rough Drafts of Superhero Origin Stories (via submission form by the start of your class)
Editing our Rough Drafts (ReadWrite and Reading Backwards strategies)
Introduction to Sci-Fi Book Project
Revision Groups


TUESDAY
R.A.D.A.R. revision strategy
Review of Pixar and Disney strategies


WEDNESDAY
DUE: Comments on Peers' Essays
Bulwur-Lytton Bad Hooks Activity


THURSDAY
Final Drafting
Scoring our essays with music?
Images to illustrate our narratives?

FRIDAY
Final Drafting






MONDAY
Designing a blueprint of our classroom environment using Autocad software


TUESDAY
DUE: Blueprint due in hard copy AND as a screenshot via submission form
Music and Images for our Superhero Narratives

WEDNESDAY
CNN Student News

THURSDAY
DUE: Final Draft of Origin Stories (by your class time via submission form)
QW: When was your superhero first spotted?


FRIDAY
CNN Student News
Newspaper Structure
The 5Ws


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MONDAY, Sept. 28
CNN Student News
Introduction to Superhero Newspaper Article

TUESDAY
Scrible Article Share
LucidPress Article Template
Superhero Newspaper Article

WEDNESDAY
TED Transcript on Heroism


THURSDAY
CNN Student News
Introduction to Superhero Newspaper Article


FRIDAY
Scrible Article Share
LucidPress Article Template
DUE: Superhero Newspaper Article
 

MONDAY, OCT. 5
Forming Superhero Leagues
Persuasive Writing League Applications 


TUESDAY
League Announcements
Collaboration Constitution Begins
Reading Origin Stories to your league - Author's Share


WEDNESDAY
Ted Talks - Heroism
Author's Share con't

THURSDAY
Collaboration Constitution con't
Reading Newspaper Articles to your League - Author's Share


FRIDAY
DUE: Collaboration Constitution (submit hard copy signed)

Developing Collaboration Rubrics (rubistar4teachers)
Problem Statements independent research begins
Author's Share con't





MONDAY, Oct. 12
Independent Problem Statements con't
Inquiry to guide research


TUESDAY
DUE: Problem Statements by start of class time (submit via submission form)
These must include 1-2 paragraphs + 3-5 questions + Works Cited + 2-3 Sentences of how your topic relates to your character + screenshot of Google Advanced Search

Coming to a Consensus Re: League "issue"

WEDNESDAY
Comma Video
Superhero Punctuation Activity

THURSDAY
Collaborative Problem Statement


FRIDAY
DUE: Collaboration Rubrics
Collaboration Problem Statement




MONDAY, Oct 19
"All the World's A Stage" and metaphors in literature
DUE: Collaborative Problem Statement - submission form by 11:59pm


TUESDAY

"All the World's A Stage" con't
Classroom library scavenger hunt 
DUE: Research Library Check #2 (Counts as a quiz) - make sure all of you have your works cited contributions - only yours - loaded onto your research library page of your portfolio.  Please make sure you have headings for your research that indicate which ones were for your narrative and which ones were for the start of this advocacy unit!

WEDNESDAY
Comma Video
Superhero Punctuation Activity

THURSDAY
The 7 Stages of Man
Literary Analysis of Shakespeare's monologue
Introduction to "All the World's a Stage" Assignment

​FRIDAY
DUE: Bring your new Independent Reading Book
Speeches in class 


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MONDAY, OCT. 26
New book project introduction - The Character Bag
League Presentation Introduction: Roles, Expectations, What's to Come

TUESDAY
Field trip to Gabrielino to see paleontologist 
Reflection on guest speaker

WEDNESDAY
Executive Summary Outline

THURSDAY
OFF

FRIDAY
OFF

MONDAY, Nov. 2
GATE Fieldtrip
Shakespeare project work day

TUESDAY
Developing Infographics

DUE: "All the World's A Stage" project and literary analysis

WEDNESDAY

Executive Summary Outline

THURSDAY
League Work Day

FRIDAY
League Work Day


MONDAY, Nov. 9
DUE: Independent Infographic
Performance Based Assessment - Day 1
Heroes

TUESDAY
Performance Based Assessment - Day 2
Heroes

WEDNESDAY
OFF

THURSDAY
Performance Based Assessment - Day 3
Heroes

FRIDAY
Performance Based Assessment - Day 4
Heroes





MONDAY, NOV. 16
Celebrating the Good in Humanity
Work Day
When is your league presenting? - Timing our Oral Presentations
Late work submissions for progress reports

TUESDAY
Streaming the United Nations
Work Day


WEDNESDAY
Work Day


THURSDAY
Becoming Ambassadors To the United Nations
Researching Facts about your assigned country
Timing Your Speeches

FRIDAY
What Is Your League's Assigned Presentation Date? What is due on the day we present?
-Website
-Collaborative Executive Summary
-Infographic
-PSA
-Group Oral Presentation + Visual Presentation 
DUE:



MONDAY, NOV. 30
About Us - 3rd Person Biography about Superhero (connect to issue that you support)
Work Day


TUESDAY
Symbolic Country Sign for United Nations Table
DUE: end of period - Country sign

WEDNESDAY
Work Day


THURSDAY
League Rubrics
Informational Document and Reading Challenge (more info to come)
United Nations Norms During League Presentations


FRIDAY
DUE: Country Tourism Brochure Due
League Presentations Begin!




​January 25 - January 28









MONDAY
What is Iambic Pentameter?
What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
Sonnet 116


TUESDAY
Love Sonnet to _________


WEDNESDAY
A Midsummer Night's Dream


THURSDAY
DUE: Love Sonnet


​FRIDAY
OFF

MONDAY, Feb. 1
A Midsummer Night's Dream


Tuesday
AMND

Wednesday 
AMND

THURSDAY
AMND

FRIDAY
DUE: Character Web
AMND



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
AMND
PROJECT WORK PERIOD (select one to work on today): infographics, movie poster, scene translations, quiz creation, book trailer script, Shakespeare in Today's World presentation, literary analysis, scene study (with whole group)

TUESDAY
DUE: What Engages You As A Student Survey
AMND PROJECT WORK PERIOD

WEDNESDAY
JOG-A-THON

THURSDAY
AMND PROJECT WORK PERIOD

FRIDAY
DUE BY THE BEGINNING OF CLASS: Rough Draft of Literary Analysis
Peer Revisions Using Kelly Gallagar's RADAR




​MONDAY, FEB. 29
Self-Editing Strategies of Literary Analysis

TUESDAY
AMND

WEDNESDAY
AMND
DUE: Final Draft

THURSDAY
AMND

FRIDAY
DUE: FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS


MONDAY, March 7
8th grade PBA all this week

TUESDAY
PBA

WEDNESDAY
Work Day

THURSDAY
PBA

FRIDAY
PBA


MONDAY, March 14
Stage Combat - Bring your nerf swords!

TUESDAY
DUE: Independent Reading Book (Fiction)
Timed Reading and Goal Setting

WEDNESDAY
Work Day

THURSDAY
Work Day

FRIDAY
Work Day



Monday, March 20
DUE: All scenes need to be blocked and memorized.

I am going to watch scenes on this day!

Tuesday
DUE: Hook Project
Watching scenes con't

Wednesday
Work Day

Thursday
DUE: Invention Convention Artifacts (pre-spring break deadline)
Work Day

Friday
Career Day!

Spring Break!


MONDAY, APRIL 4
DUE: Invention Convention (post-spring break deadline)
Work Day and IC check in

TUESDAY
Work Day and IC check in
Disneyland for Orchestra

WEDNESDAY
Work Day and IC check in

THURSDAY
Work Day and IC check in

FRIDAY
Work Day

MONDAY
DUE: April 11th - Filmed Scenes Due
Watching Films
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TUESDAY
Watching Films

WEDNESDAY
Work Day Choices:
Character Bag
Literary Analysis Character Bag
Infographic
Movie Poster
Website
Literary Analysis AMND
Book Trailer
Shakespeare in Today's World

THURSDAY
Work Day

FRIDAY
Work Day

MONDAY, APRIL 18
Character Bag + Character-focused Literary Analysis: Hard Copy




MONDAY, April 25
DUE: All projects, website, etc...

Oral Presentations of Websites All Week
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