Quarter

Content/Performance Addressed

Benchmarks for Student Achievement

Students will be able to:

Assessment

1

·         Select Fairy tales and fables will be used to introduce students to an English Regents class throughout the school year

·         Reading strategies

·         Elements of a story and basic literary elements

·         Thinking maps

·         The writing process

·         Vocabulary

·         Suggested fairy tales/fables from:

·         The Grimm Brothers

·         Hans Christian Anderson

·         Aesop

·         Others

·         Introduce ELA Grade 8 (emphasis on reading and listening skills)

·         Writing:

·         Journal writing

·         Sequencing

·         Cause and effect

·         Facts and opinions

·         Library Orientation

-          approach and deal with the English language in

         all NYS “Standards” areas with an enthusiasm     

         for learning and a confidence in their ability to           

         succeed in all future learning experiences

-          read and comprehend all materials with a

steadily improving level of ease and understanding

-          evaluate their own writing via an improved

understanding of usage and mechanics rules and skills that determine correctness and quality in all communication areas.

Quizzes, Tests, Written Assignments,  etc.

Individual “projects” in line with individual skill growth and understanding as per “Quarter” content and serving as a “Quarterly”

2

·         Continue exploring fable tale/fable genre

·         Suggested lengthier tales:

·         Adventures of  Pinnochio-Carlo Collodi

·         Peter Pan- James M. Barrie

·         Fairy Tales Project

Film “Finding Nemo”-completion of fairy tale unit and introduction to the theme of the journey of a hero

·         Continue ELA Grade 8 (emphasis on reading and writing skills)

·         Elements: plot, theme, setting, conflict, characterization

·         Writing

·         Journal Writing

·         Writing Details

·         Writing Comparisons

-          respond to written works with an understanding of basic literary elements and techniques that contribute to the quality and interest level of any and all selections.

-          exhibit improved skills in writing well-constructed sentences.

-          read and comprehend all written English with greater understanding

-          show an increasing willingness to seek and find  outside reading experiences in individual interest areas.

Quizzes, Tests, Written Assignments, Oral Reading Evaluations

Mid-Term Exam

Quarter

Content/Performance Standards Addressed

Benchmarks for Student Achievement

Students will be able to:

Assessment

3

·         Select novels will be used to explore the themes of the journey of the hero and the search for identity

·         Novels will be used to introduce literary elements and techniques (Symbolism, irony, figurative language [simile, metaphor, pun, idioms, personification] )

·         Suggested Novels:

·         The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum

·         Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

·         Writing:

·         Journal writing

·        Writing with a purpose (persuasive, etc.)

-          exhibit improved reading skills sufficient for successful reading and work with a novel.

-          write a well developed paragraph that is evidence of overall growth in all skills areas of English grammar, usage, mechanics, etc.

Quizzes, Tests, Written Assignments

Journal Entry Evaluation for skill growth

“Quarterly Exam”

Persuasive Paragraph  to Essay as per individual ability

4

·         Continue exploring the themes the journey of a hero and the search for identity

·         Continue exploration of literary elements

·         Writing:

Journal writing

Essay writing (critical lens)

·         Suggested Novels:

·                 The Color of My Words – Lynn 

             Joseph

·                 Beowulf – Robert Nye

-          write a basic but quality “Critical Lens” essay that is evidence of individual growth in all skills areas of standard written English.

-          approach all future ELA course work and all English language experiences with a firm understanding of language  “basic” as a foundation on which to build successfully throughout the future.

Quizzes, Tests, Written Assignments,

Evaluation of Oral Skills

Essay Skills

Final Exam