2005-2006 COVINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL 8TH GRADE YEAR PLAN

Grade Level Expectations
GLEs 		1st Trimester
What is the purpose of Community? 		2nd Trimester
How does a community survive and thrive? 		3rd Trimester
What is our part in the global community?
  September October November December January February March April May June
Language Arts
RA Strategies for Year
Connection Bookmark
• Talk to Text
• Think Aloud
• Vocabulary
Unit 1 How do individuals make up a community?
Reading: Novel
The Giver Poetry Rdg 3.4.2
Expository

Writing: Workshop
Draft books=reflection
Setup Quick Writes

Unit 2
How do communities survive?
Reading : Literature Circles:
  • White Bark
  • Touching Spirit Bear
  • A Light in the Forest
  • Etc

Writing: Persuasive Mode

  • Kennewick Man
  • Chinook Film
  • Agree/Disagree Science vs Native Americans

Unit 3
What breaks a community
GLE 3.4.3
Reading: Short Stories

Video:

  • High Noon

Writing:

  • Journaling
  • Quick Writes
  • Workshop: Choice Writing

Unit 4
What breaks a community

Reading: Novel
The Outsiders

  • Good vs Evil
  • Not getting along
  • Violence/death
  • Loss of innocence

Unit 5
How can we as individuals improve community?
Reading: Novel
Tears of a Tiger

Writing: Multi Genre

Unit 6

  Catalyst of Change (Heroes- word choice)
Balance:

Socratic Seminar
Discussion using open ended questions:

  • What would be your perfect world?(Utopia)
  • Why can’t we have….?
Catalyst of Change (Heroes- word choice)
Native American Summit
3rd week of November 		Catalyst of Change (Heroes- word choice)
River Vignette
  • Gym
  • Small Groups
  • Bring it all together
Catalyst of Change (Heroes- word choice)
Dinner with the Dead
Socratic Seminar:
Change in the world that are good Students search for who has fought for_____ ....
  • --Chavez
  • Bill Gates PNW
  • MLK
  • President’s
  • Ethnic
  • Ann Frank World
  • Women

Pacific
Northwest
History 		Field Trip: September
“Geography Road Trip”
Geology/Geography
  • Letters home including state to local history
  • Field Trip – research of local history around Clark County

Autobiographical Writing 		Field Trip: October
Stevenson Museum: Petroglyph.

Explorers/Lewis & Clark
Trappers/Traders/Missionaries
Indian Wars
Trail of Tears
Westward Expansion
Oregon Trail
Developing State
Government
  • Bill of Rights = Balance =Community & Individual
  • Speedy trial
  • Want fair trial
  • When we do not believe trial fair the structure is weakened
  • Guaranteed rights

Economics of Pacific Rim and Global Trade