Scorpion

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Welcome!
Scorpion Curriculum Night!
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Eighth Grade Language ArtsWriting Curriculum
Mrs. Cigich
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Contact Information
E Mail KCigich_at_Kyrene.org Phone [phone]
I am available from 800 830 for additional
student help daily
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Curriculum

• Writing Concepts

Narrative Expository/Informational Functiona
l Argumentative Literary Response Bolded
Concepts will be evaluated on formative
assessments
The students will have multiple opportunities to
master these concepts as they will practice
throughout the school year.
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Curriculum

• Writing Elements

Ideas and Content Organization Voice Word
Choice Sentence Fluency Conventions On each
writing concept, we will review and focus on
three of these elements. They will be practiced
throughout the school year.
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Curriculum
Grammar Concepts

Prepositional phrase, Parts of a Sentence
(subject, predicate verbs, complements
predicate nominative, predicate adjective,
direct object, indirect object,Sentence
Structure (simple, complex, compound,
compound/complex), Verbals (gerund, participles,
infintive), etc Once the students are able to
identify these, they will be applying them to
their sentences cumulatively.
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Curriculum
Reacting to Texts

Students will use a variety of methods to react
to texts Essays Blogs Debate Cooperative
group work/projects Reciprocal Teaching A
number of web-based tools will also be used
wiki spaces, Discovery Education,
Screencast-o-matic, Thinglink, etc.
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Textbooks

• Holt Elements of Language
• Write Source
• Quarter 2 Inside Out and Back Again
• Quarter 4 A Midsummer Nights Dream
• Supplemental kits
• Debate
• Grammar
• Vocabulary Greek and Latin Roots contextual
  vocabulary

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Textbooks

• ALA classes
• Quarter 2Inside Out and Back Again
• Quarter 4 A Midsummer Nights Dream
• Vocabulary from The Word Within the Word (Greek
  and Latin Roots) These are SAT level words
• Grammar
• Debate
• The ALA students will be doing many of the same
  lessons as the grade-level students but at a much
  more rigorous level.

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Grading
Weighted grading 20 - CW, HW, participation,
work completion 80 - Assessments, Projects,
Writing Tasks All raw scores will be
converted to percentages prior to going in the
grade book Any assignment/assessment that
scores less than 70 can be fixed for a grade
change to 70