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Mr. Flanagan, English Teacher, Grade 8

Grade 8

Mr. Flanagan

Weekly Lesson Plan

Week of September 8-12

Focus for week:

• Mood, audience, plot, dialogue, suspense, use of graphics to help tell a story
• paragraph development
• pronoun: number, person, compound
• vocabulary units 1-3

Last Friday, September 5

Homework/Project

1. Literature: read “The Dragon” in Literature, p.439

Literary questions:

• What purpose might Bradbury have for creating this comic story?
• What are some of the elements of suspense in this story?
• Who is the protagonist, and who is the antagonist?
• How does the cartoon format help “tell” the story?
• Who might the audience for this story?

Please answers in sentence format.

2. Vocabulary: units 1-3 review, Vocabulary for Comprehension, Grammar in Context

Monday

Grammar: pronoun (number, person, compound)

Literature: share answers to homework questions

Discuss: dialogue, mood

Homework/Projects

1. Vocabulary: units 1-3 review, Two-Word Completions

2. Literature:

a. Photocopy pages from “The Dragon”

b. White out the dialogue (bubbled words)

c. Put in your own dialogue

d. Change the mood of the story from somber to humorous!

e. Print neatly, or paste on computer generated text

f. Try to avoid offensive language.

Tuesday

Grammar: pronoun (number, person, compound)

Literature: share new versions of “The Dragon.” Discuss mood and dialogue and use of graphics to convey meaning.

Homework/Projects

1. Vocabulary: units 1-3 review, Choosing the Right Meaning, Word Families

2. Read “The Old Woman" on p. 207, Literature

Writing prompt: What is the protagonist's main problem (conflict), and how is it resolved?

Length/Format: complete paragraph

Wednesday

Grammar: pronoun (number, person, compound)

Literature: share paragraphs

Have student copy Parts of Speech off bulletin board, and then match to definitions

Discuss homework.

Begin reading “The Circuit” and possible audience for this short story.

Homework/Projects

1. Vocabulary: units 1-3 review, Word Associations, Building with Classical Roots

2. Read “The Circuit” in Literature

Answer: At the end of the story, the immigrant children run from the school bus. Why is this ironic, and how might the future of the bus children and the immigrant children be different? Note: you will have to look up the work ironic. 

Format: one paragraph
 

Thursday

Grammar: pronoun (number, person, compound)

Writing: share homework

Reading Comprehension: read aloud from text for comprehend, one paragraph at a time.

Vocabulary: review for quiz using Sadlier-Oxford link on website for practice

Homework/Projects

Review for units 1-3 test; review with Sadlier-Oxford link on website for practice

Friday

Vocabulary: units 1-3 test

Homework/Projects

Vocabulary: unit 4, definitions

Paragraph question prompt: Who is John Steinbeck?

Make sure to include five “unusual” facts.