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OCTOBER 13, 2014

8TH GRADE ELA

UNIT 3
The Move
Toward
Freedom

NEWSLETTER

Introduction
In this collection, you will focus on the quest for freedom that
led to the American Civil War.

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Reading
Students expand their understanding of a
historical period by reading biographies of the
people who played significant roles in events. This
lesson focuses attention on the biographers
techniques for revealing character and creating
interest.
Key Learning Objective: The students will be
able to identify methods of characterization in a
biography and analyze the authors craft.
Historical fiction adds a human perspective to the
facts, dates, and statistics that often come with the
study of the past. Reading stories such as The
Drummer Boy of Shiloh allows students to gain
insight into key events in their countrys history in
a way that textbooks cannot provide.
Key Learning Objective: Student will identify
and analyze the key elements of historical fiction
and examine how authors create mood in a story.
The Civil War forever changed the United States.
this selection provides important insight into the
lives of the two leaders who guided that conflict.
Detailed descriptions of events surrounding the fall
of Richmond allow students to hear the voices of
those who were there.
Key Learning Objective: The student will be
able to identify and allies a compare-and-contrast
organizational pattern in a text and understand the
impact of a words connotation and meaning.
The text on this page was copied from Collections by the Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt Publishing Company.

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Performance Task
Write a Literary Analysis
Ray Bradburys The Drummer Boy of Shiloh invites readers to experience the
night before a Civil War battle through the eyes of a young boy. In this activity
you will conduct research (or review your earlier research) to learn how the
historical details of the Battle of Shiloh are relevant to the story. Following a
small-group discussion about your fresh insights into the story, you will write a
literary analysis in which you offer an interpretation of the storys symbolism.

A successful literary analysis

provides an introduction that captures the readers attention and clearly


states the topic

cites textual evidence and strongly supports the writers ideas


clearly organizes ideas and concepts
conveys key points through the selection, organization, and analysis of
relevant content
provides a strong conclusion that summarizes the analysis

We will do one literary analysis where I will walk you through the
process step by step. You will also write another literary analysis for
your historical fiction novel. For this task you will read a passage
and write a literary analysis using your knowledge from this unit.
This assignment will be a summative grade.

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Grammar
Lesson 21 - The Direct Object
Lesson 22 - Capitalization: People Titles, Family Words, and School Subjects
Lesson 23 - Descriptive Adjectives - Proper Adjectives
Lesson 24 - The Limiting Adjective - Diagramming Adjectives
Lesson 25 - Capitalization: Areas, Religions, Greetings - No Capital Letter
Lesson 21-25 Summative
Lesson 26 - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Lesson 27 - Active or Passive Voice
Lesson 28 - Object of the Preposition - The Prepositional Phrase
Lesson 29 - The Prepositional Phrase as an Adjective
Lesson 30 - Indirect Objects
Lesson 26-30 Summative

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Unit Vocabulary
Name: ______________________________ Period: _____ Date: __________ Vocabulary

Collection 3 Summative
enthusiasm - strong excitement
about something : a strong feeling of
active interest in something that you
like or enjoy
pithy - using few words in a clever
and effective way
perceptions - the way you think
about or understand someone or
something
allusions - a reference to a famous
person, place, event, or work of
literature.
air-raid - an attack in which a place
is bored by military airplanes
emphasize - to give special
attention to (something) : a forceful
quality in the way something is said
or written
symbol - a thing that stands for
something beyond itself
dialogue - the things that are said by the characters in a story, movie, play, etc.
imagery - language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind
lolling - to act or move in a lax, lazy, or indolent manner
ungainly - moving in an awkward or clumsy way : not graceful
infiltrate - to pass into or through (something)
floor show - a series of acts by performers in a nightclub
innocence - lack of experience with the world and with the bad things that happen in life
compensations - something good that acts as a balance against something bad or undesirable
glowered - to look at someone or something in an angry way

Collection 3 Vocabulary

Troy Middle School

8th Grade ELA

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