SUBJECT: ELA GRADE: 8th TEACHER: AL-AARAJI

PACING GUIDE 2016-2017

QUARTER Three

Texts: A Midsummer Nights Technology: 1999 DVD movie production of the

Dream Joey Pigza Swallowed a play, and BBC play (a modern version of the play
Key, Informational articles and in the Globe theater), Chromebooks.
poems.

Concepts: Standards Objectives: Literacy Assessments:

: Skills:
Essential Questions: Students will be Writing a
RL: 8.5, able to: Makes portfolio that
1. Love is blind: 8.6, 8.7, Read and Inferences; may include,
What does this 8.8, 8.9 understand Identify among other
sentence mean to Shakespeares A conflict, activities:
you and do you RI. 8.7, Midsummer analyze and summaries of
agree with it? Nights Dream.; interpret Greek
2. What are W: 8.6, 8.7, identify poetic information; mythology; use
different types of 8.8 devices within the find the knowledge of
love? play; identify the main
language and its
3. What is the L: 8.1, 8.2, main themes idea/theme,
power of dreams? 8.3, 8.4a, within the play identify conventions
Can dreams have 8.4d, 8.5, (e.g. Love and point of when writing,
an effect on Friendship); view; define speaking,
reality? appreciate the vocabulary reading, or
4. What is the aesthetic using listening; keep
relationship experience of the context
track of 4 plots.
between dreaming play; connect with clues;
and the the play and decode and
imagination? identify its recognize Compare and
5. How do we act relevance to words contrast different
when we are in modern day fluently; versions of the
love? issues concerning summarize same narrative in
6. What is the youth; watch a text, draw
different types of
common perception film version of the evidence
of true love vs. love play and compare from media.
at first sight? it to the reading reading,
7. Would you go experience; read and Vocabulary
against your family understand the comprehend tests
to follow your difference written text.
heart? between a play Grammar
8. How do emotions and a story; and exercises
influence our complete a
perceptions? portfolio that
9. What are the includes all of the
qualities that make work they have
a good friend? done on
10. What is the Shakespeare.
difference between
sight and
perception?

Note: Grammar, Vocabulary, and/or Root Words will be studied along with literary
units. Students will learn the conventions of Standard English, use their knowledge of
language and its conventions when writing, reading, listening, or speaking, develop
their vocabulary, and demonstrate their understanding of words and phrases at their
grade level.