8th ELA Unit 4
Investigating through the Holocaust (Perspective) Duration: 5 weeks
Essential Question: How did a character or individual use grit, strength, creativity, and intellect to overcome some inequity in the world?
Priority Standards:
RL. 8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
RI. 8.3 Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
W. 8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
SL. 8.5 Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
Priority Standards:
RL. 8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
RI. 8.3 Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
W. 8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
SL. 8.5 Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
- Informational: Informational text/research based on chosen incident/person to support essential question
- Literature: Short stories that support essential question
- Writing: Informational
- Speaking and Listening: Visual presentation (student choice)
Vocabulary
Perspective
Mood
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Perspective
Mood
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Assessment
Summative: Literary Analysis
RWE: Short Story
Summative: Literary Analysis
RWE: Short Story