Grade 8 Curriculum Modules
The Grade 6 curriculum modules are designed to address CCLS ELA outcomes during a 45-50 minute English Language Arts class. The overarching focus for all modules is building students’ literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world.
Each MODULE provides 8 eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. Each module includes one end-of-module performance task as well as mid-unit and end-of-unit assessments for all three units
Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the “shifts” required by the CCLS.
Grade 8, Module 3a, Overview
Grade 8, Module 3a, Assessments
Grade 8, Module 3a, Performance Task
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Unit 1 In this first unit, students consider an American man's (Louis Zamperelli) life adventure and hardships during World War II. Students begin the literary non-fiction biography, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. Students will build background knowledge and evaluate varying perspectives of World War II events through the text and a variety of primary source documents.
Unit 2 In this second unit, students will continue to learn of the plight of an Louis Zamperelli's capture by the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Specifically, students will examine the plight of Louis as a prisoner of war considering both his internal struggle to maintain dignity and his effort to survive his isolation from the world. Furthermore, students will investigate real life accounts (through a variety of modalities) of Japanese-Americans residing in the United States during World War II and their subsequent internment.
Unit 3 In this final unit of Module 3a students will complete Unbroken and explore the effect war has on a variety of individuals, specifically examining the movement from "invisibility" to survive war, to becoming "visible' again as a functioning member of society. Students will consider the important yet divergent experiences in war and conflict. To culminate this learning, students will write, collaborate and share a narrative they construct.
The Grade 6 curriculum modules are designed to address CCLS ELA outcomes during a 45-50 minute English Language Arts class. The overarching focus for all modules is building students’ literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world.
Each MODULE provides 8 eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. Each module includes one end-of-module performance task as well as mid-unit and end-of-unit assessments for all three units
Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the “shifts” required by the CCLS.
Grade 8, Module 3a, Overview
Grade 8, Module 3a, Assessments
Grade 8, Module 3a, Performance Task
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Unit 1 In this first unit, students consider an American man's (Louis Zamperelli) life adventure and hardships during World War II. Students begin the literary non-fiction biography, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. Students will build background knowledge and evaluate varying perspectives of World War II events through the text and a variety of primary source documents.
Unit 2 In this second unit, students will continue to learn of the plight of an Louis Zamperelli's capture by the Japanese in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Specifically, students will examine the plight of Louis as a prisoner of war considering both his internal struggle to maintain dignity and his effort to survive his isolation from the world. Furthermore, students will investigate real life accounts (through a variety of modalities) of Japanese-Americans residing in the United States during World War II and their subsequent internment.
Unit 3 In this final unit of Module 3a students will complete Unbroken and explore the effect war has on a variety of individuals, specifically examining the movement from "invisibility" to survive war, to becoming "visible' again as a functioning member of society. Students will consider the important yet divergent experiences in war and conflict. To culminate this learning, students will write, collaborate and share a narrative they construct.