Guiding+Standards

READING STANDARDS

1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Give the students (have students reading the same book create) a statement that may be true or false and they have to provide evidence from the text to substantiate their claim. James, Clark and I will all address this one.

2. Determine the theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot: provide an objective summary of the text.  1. use the summary on the back of books to help determine what the theme might be.  2. in 15 words  3. story maps  4. graphic organizers

James, Clark and I will all address this one.
 * Theme || Character || Setting || Plot ||

3. Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. Pick a story to read. After reading, choose some passages to delete. Re-read. How did the story change? What did the eliminated passages add to the story? What did you learn about the character from these passages?  Use this time to review the proper punctuation for dialogue. James, Clark, Creative writing, and Brenda will all address this one. 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings: analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wow words in journal <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Discuss analogies and figurative - and record in your journal <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pick a word from your reading. Why do you think the author picked that particular word? What other words could the author have used? - James, Clark, Brenda <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have students pick two texts to read - one fiction, one non-fiction, related to the same topic. Have them complete a graphic organizer while reading that will help them make the comparision. - Brenda
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does the author do to help you understand the meaning of the text? || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the structure of the text contribute to its style? ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor. - Language Arts, Creative Writing, Lit Circle, Comm Arts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.

7th Lang arts - Christmas Carol, Call of the Wild 8th Lady and the Tiger, Angus, Raven (Simpson's)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. (not applicable to literature)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new. 7th and 8th Language Arts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 texts complexity band independently and proficiently. Clark - Lady & the Tiger, Daedelous and Licarus, Echo and Narcisus, Raven, Crutcher <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clark, James and I need to decide what stories we will be using so we don’t duplicate. I would like to use some stories from the LOL anthology. Brenda, I generally read the first half of L.O.L. anthology to study story elements/themes/etc. Watson's Read 180 - Watson's, Among the Hidden,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Informational Text

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Lit Circles - non-fiction that relates to their books 8th - Language arts - Debate 7th - Watson's - research on civil rights, Consumerism book Read 180 - Watson's research <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share this standard with core staff and support their use of this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pick relevant informational text - either something that relates to a book a student is reading or from current events.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is done through Jess’s current events on a weekly basis. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Again, share with core staff - this can be addressed through several of the readings that are presented in various classes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 15 Words in reverse. Give the students a 15 word summary and then have them provide the appropriate supporting arguments from the text.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Look for key words, such as, like, compared to, -er, -est, neither, both, and highlight them. Comm Arts - Consumerism Book

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WOW words <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Review the idea of appositives to show how the author helps the reader find context clues. everybody 8th language arts - research paper 7th language arts - demonstrative speech Comm Arts - Creative Writing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Take a paragraph from your text. Check to see if it has 1) the main idea, 2) supporting details, 3) conclusion, 4) transition to next paragraph. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Compare the paragraph you chose with a partner’s paragraph. How were they similar? How were they the same?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

- 8th Language arts - Debates - Comm Arts - Commercials

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Talk with your group. Who is the author’s intended audience? What is their purpose? Do they acknowledge the “other side” of the argument? What evidence do they give to support their argument? Why would they choose to present the information they did? Can you think of any other arguments that might have been better? Did they use any arguments that you don’t think they should have? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pick a topic presented in a core class or have the core class teachers use this. Have the students read two passages on the same topic, but written from different points of view. Compare the passages using the criteria above.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g. print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. Comm Arts Computers

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can be done in conjunction with #6 above.

8th grade debates Comm Arts - commercials

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">See #6 above

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

- Everyone

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Standards

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible resources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Establish and maintain a formal style <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.

8th Language Arts - Debates, research

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables) and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> e. Establish and maintain a formal style. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.

-7th grade - research paper - 8th grade - research paper - Computers - Newspaper - one day per week putting together ideas submitted from other classes - maybe add current events

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events and/or characters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

- Creative Writing - Comm Arts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above).

Everybody

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Languages standards 1-3 up to and including grade 8).

- Creative Writing 7th and 8th Language Arts Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

- Computers - Comm Arts - Everyone <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google docs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiki’s - achiving newsletter - Computers Newsletter Students text info to a "middle school blog" Teachers coordinate assignments on a wiki and then at team publish for the parents/students

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several source and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

7th LA, 8th LA, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try to coordinate one research type paper a quarter in core classes that can be worked on during writing class as well.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

- Computers - 7th LA, 8th LA, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new”). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced”).

Lit Circles 7th LA, 8th LA, Read 180 Comm Arts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

- Creative writing Everyone

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking and Listening

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led), with diverse partners on grade 8 topics and issues building on the others ideas and expressing their ideas clearly. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Corsiva; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - 7th LA, 8th LA, Read 180, Lit Circles - discussion during reading groups <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b. Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> use the group discussion preparation in Raphael’s Book Club. Use the “fishbowl” technique to model a group discussion while reading short stories. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Acknowledge new information expressed by others, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views in light of the evidence presented.

Lit Circles 8th LA - Debates

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.

Comm Arts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

Comm Arts 8th LA - Debates

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Comm Arts 8th LA - Debates

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.

Computers Comm Arts

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate (see grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations).

Comm Arts 8th LA - Debates

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LANGUAGE STANDARDS

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.

7th, 8th Lang Arts, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Spell correctly.

7th, 8th Language Arts, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional an subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects 9e.g., emphasizing the actor or the action; expressing uncertainty or describing a state contrary to fact).

7th, 8th Language Arts, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).

7th, 8th Language Arts, Read 180 Applied in all core classes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., verbal irony, puns) in context. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., bullheaded, willful, firm, persistent, resolute).

7th, 8th Language Arts, Read 180

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

All classes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WRITING STANDARDS FOR LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL SUBJECTS

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

- supported by LA staff <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism an overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.

- Floating research paper - Common rubric for grammar/punctuation/format/ - Six Traits - Digitize the rubric so the completed rubric stays with the document