SSK Unit 4.2 Planning Guide

speeches/essays)Academic Vocabulary• word meaning• audience • inferences • toneEssential Understandings / Guiding QuestionsHISD PLANNING GUIDEEnglish Language Arts Grade 8SUMMER SCHOOL• Context clues and reference sources assist readers in determining the connotation and denotation of unfamiliarwords.1. What are some types of context clues?2. How is connotation different from denotation?• Authors use rhetorical devices, diction, and a variety of evidence to persuade their audience.1. What are rhetorical devices?2. How do rhetorical devices affect a piece of writing?3. Why is it important for an author to know his audience?Assessment Connections• Performance Expectation- Students revise and edit an expository essay of sufficient length that includes organizedand accurately conveyed information, effective introductory and concluding paragraphs and a variety of sentencestructures, a controlling idea or thesis, an organizing structure (e.g. inductive/deductive, compare/contrast)appropriate to purpose, audience, and context, relevant information and valid inferences, rhetorical devices, andtransitions between paragraphs.Formative Assessment- Expository Essay Rubric• Students use a graphic organizer find a words meaning through the use of context clues.Formative Assessment- Word Detective• Students read two persuasive pieces that take opposite sides of an issue and then answer questions thatcompare/contrast the two pieces and analyze the rhetorical devices used.Formative Assessment- Vending Machines: Yea or Nay?• Students formulate an argument in groups to use in a debate.Formative Assessment- Should P.E. Be Required?• Students conduct a cold read on a speech and answer questions that require them to use inference skills, analyzeliterary devices, and identify the meaning of an unknown word using context clues.Formative Assessment- Let Freedom Reign• Students actively discuss a topic that is thematically connected to a text or about the text itself.Formative Assessment- Inner/Outer Circle Rubric• Students use released STAAR items to gain familiarity with the stems.Released STAAR Items Reading (Selection 1, Items 1-4, 7 and Selection 2, Items 4, 6, 7)Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS): End-of-year assessment in listening,speaking, reading, and writing for all students coded as LEP (ELL) and for students who are LEP but have parentaldenials for Language Support Programming (coded WH). For the Writing TELPAS, teachers provide five writingsamples – one narrative about a past event, two academic (from science, social studies, or mathematics), and twoothers.Instructional ConsiderationsThis Curriculum Unit Planning Guide is designed to support HISD teachers in planning daily lessons that meet the needsof students based on data generated during the school year. Teachers should utilize data to individualize instruction andto select focus genres and objectives. To ensure effective planning and instruction, refer to the components outlined bythe Houston ISD Instructional Practice Rubric.VocabularyPrerequisitesStudents should possess dictionary skills, be able to use context clues (Definition/Description, Compare and Contrast,Example, Classification) to ascertain meaning and demonstrate ability to make meaning of text. - English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) - Literacy Leads the Way Best Practices - Aligned to Upcoming State Readiness Standard- State Process Standard R - State Readiness Standard S - State Supporting Standard© Houston ISD Curriculum2013 – 2014Page 2 of 11