Quarter one

Unit title: “Who Are We?”

Topic: Identity of Self and Others

Type / Title / Source / Core Standard / Common Activity

Novel

/
  1. The Pearl
  2. House on Mango Street
/ 1. Library
2. Library / 8.RL.1
8.RL.2
8.RL.3
8.RL.6
8.RL.7
8.SL.1 / Literature Logs and discussion groups
  • Summary
  • Inferencing and Predicting using textual evidence
  • Vocabulary
  • Dialectical Journal
  • Higher-Level Questioning

Non-Fiction / 1. “One Last Time”
2. Speech: “I Have a Dream” MLK Jr.
3. Speech: “Out of Many, One” Barrack Obama / 1. Lit book p. 816
2. Amy Welch and red Lit book
3. Lit book p. 846 / 8.RI.1
8.RI.2
8.RI.3 / Allusions with “I Have a Dream” speech- MLK, Jr.
Poetry / 1. “Sit-Ins”
2. “I Want to Write”
3. “The Song of Hiawatha”
4. “Identity”
5. “How Things Work”
6. “Minstrel Man”
7. “Dreams”
8. “Untitled”
9. “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”
10. “I Never Said I Wasn’t Difficult” /
  1. Lit book p. 857
  2. Lit book p. 854
3. Lit book p. 640
4. Lit book p. 601
5. Lit book p. 826
6. Amy Welch / 8.RL.5
8.RL.9 / PQP
PQP Quiz/assignments
Short Stories / 1. “Raymond’s Run”
2. Gary Soto “One Last Time”
3. “New York Day Women”
4. “Broken Chain”
5. “Snapping Turtles”
6. “Out of Bounds”
7. “The Medicine Bag”
  1. “Who are you today, Maria?”
  2. “Tell-Tale Heart”
  3. “The Hitchhiker”
/ 1. Lit book p. 34
2. Lit book p. 818
3. Lit book p. 674
4. Red Lit book p.?
5. Lit book p. 768
6. Lit book p. 784
Consumables p. 165 / 8.RL.1
8.RL.2
8.RL.3
8.RL.6
8.RL.7
8.SL.1 / Cooperative activities with reading comprehension strategies
I am…chart
Picture Books / 1. Gertrude McFuzz
2. The Big Box
3. Chrysanthemum / 1. Amy Welch
2. Kristin Patterson
3. Rachel Heredia / 8.RL.1
8.RL.9 / Journal/Reflect
SCOPE or Play / SCOPE: “Dorian Gray” / 1. Amy Welch / 8.RL.1
8.RL.9 / Comprehension Strategies
Side-by-side portrait of how others see you vs. how you really are on the inside
Art / 1. Native American
2. Mexican
3. Harlem Renaissance
4. Photography
5. Identity Collage / 1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. Lit book p. 758 / RL.8.2
RI.8.5
RI.8.8
W.8.2
SL.8.2
L.8.5
4. Primary Source / Collage/Mosaic
Music / Alicia Key’s “Caged Bird” / 1. YouTube / 8.SL.1 / Find a song that represents who they are and share lyrics along with song response
Writing / 1. Mission Statement
2. Personal Narrative from Mango Street vignettes
3. “I Am From” Poem
4. The Power of Dreams lit response
5. Poetry Response
6. Reflections / 1. Mango Street
2. Amy Welch
3. The Pearl or Lit book p. 832
4. Lit book p. 860 / 1 & 2 are 8.W.3
3 is 8.W.9
W08.S1 / Mission Statement
Vignettes
I am From Poem
Literary Response
Discussion / 1. PQP
2. Placing Kino on trial for murder after reading The Pearl
3. Apartheid and Nelson Mandela
4. How The Pearl is a parable that relates to the parables of the Bible
5. Socratic Chairs / 1. Amy Welch
2. Novel The Pearl
3. Lit book p. 797 / 8.RL.9 / Socratic chairs

Movie

/ Identity and being happy with who you are/willing to change / 1. Remember the Titans / 8.RL.7 / Popcorn
Vocabulary / 1. Skills
2. Word Study / 1. Lit book p. AZ25 / 8.RL.4 / With reading selections
Excerpt / Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Lit Book
Presentation / 1. Speech
2. Digital Presentation of Heritage
3. Evaluate own presentation
**IF THERE IS TIME! / 8.SL.2
8.SL.3
8.SL.4
Speaking and Listening
Functional Text / 1. Creating a menu/recipes of cultural/family foods / 1. Kristin Patterson / 8.W.4 / Menu/Recipe book