English 8

Unit 1: Online Student Success & 7th Grade Review

• Introduction

• Online Student Success & Content Review

• Building Your Environment

• Online Student Success & Content Review

• Online Success & Content Review

• Online Success & Content Review

• Online Success & Content Review

Unit 2: Folk Literature

• Introduction 

• Folktales

• Action Packed: Writing with Verbs

• Story Structure

• Narrating Your Narrative

• Revising Your Narrative

Unit 3: Reliable Resources

• Introduction

• What I Already Know

• Reading for Information

• The Guided Search

• Your Own Search

• Citing Your Sources

Unit 4: The Research Paper

• Introduction

• The Search

• What I Learned

• The Next Steps

• Putting It All Together

• The Oral Presentation

Unit 5: America in the 1830s

• Introduction

• A Speech to Congress

• Jackson's Speech: A Closer Look

• A Trail of Tears

• Verbs and Voice

• Tryout

• Awesome Affixes

Unit 6: Undefeated

• Introduction

• Who's Who?

• Alien World

• Use the Clues

• Words Have Feelings Too

• Verifying Verbs

• Finishing the First Half

Unit 7: Making Connections: Overcoming Adversity

• Introduction

• Making Connections

• Continuing Connections

• Get to the Point

• The Point

• Let's Talk

• Point to the Evidence

• Presentation Time

Unit 8: Worth the Risk?

• Introduction

• Back on Top

• The Power of Affixes

• The Cons

• Continuing the Cons

• The Pros

• Continuing the Pros

• Prepare to Present

Unit 1: Drama, Drama, Drama

• Introduction

• Introduction to Pygmalion

• Pygmalion, Act 2

• Pygmalion, Act 3

Unit 2: Pygmalion

• Introduction

• Vocabulary: Context Clues

• Pygmalion, Act 4

• Pygmalion, Act 5

• Conclusion and the Comma

Unit 3: Evaluating Claim

• Introduction

• What Is My Role as a Citizen?

• Appeals to Logic

• Appeals to Emotion

• Punctuation: The Dash

• Misreading History

Unit 4: Controversial Topics

• Introduction

• The Infographic

• Pro Cell Phones in School

• Con Cell Phones in School

• In Your Opinion

• Writing in Response

• Structuring Claim and Counterclaim Paragraphs

Unit 5: Everything Changes

• Introduction

• Personal Freedom and The Giver

• The Giver, Chapters 2-5

• The Value of Words

• Punctuation: The Ellipsis

• Dreaming

Unit 6: The Giver

• Introduction

• The Giver, Chapters 6-8

• The Apple

• The Giver, Chapters 9-10

• What Characters!

• The Giver, Chapters 11-12

• What Is the Spin?

Unit 7: Freedom to Choose

• Introduction

• The Giver, Chapters 13-15

• The Giver, Chapters 16-17

• The Road Less Traveled

• The Giver, Chapters 18-19

• Stating Your Claim

Unit 8: The Best Way to Argue

• Introduction

• Reading the Last Chapter

• Supporting Your Claim

• Organizing Your Writing

• The Argument Draft

• Editing for Punctuation