Grade Level - 8
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ELAR
Integration Theme: Heroes of Early America
Unit and TEKS
Unit 01: Exploration and Colonization (10 days)
8.1ABC; 8.2AB; 8.3ABC; 8.7BC; 8.10ABC; 8.11AC; 8.12ABD; 8.20A; 8.23ACE; 8.25AB; 8.29ABJ; 8.30BD; 8.31B
Unit 02: Celebrate Freedom Week (4 days)
8.15C; 8.19A; 8.30D
Unit 03: American Revolution (10 days)
8.1ABC; 8.4ABC; 8.15C; 8.19A; 8.20C; 8.21A; 8.22B; 8.26B; 8.29BD
Unit and TEKS
Unit 01: The Challenges of Heroism: Fiction and Poetry; Research
8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABE; 8.3ABC; 8.6ABC; 8.14ABCDE; 8.15Ai-v; 8.16A; 8.17C; 8.19Aiii,vBC; 8.20ABi; 8.21A; 8.28A; 8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABE; 8.3C; 8.4A; 8.7A; 8A; 8.13ABC; 8.14ABCDE; 8.15Bi-iii; 8.16A; 8.17C; 8.19Ai,vBC; 8.20ABi; 8.28A; 8.2CD; 8.10ACD; 8.13BC; 8.14ABC; 8.17D; 8.22AB; 8.23ABCD; 8.24AB; 8.25ABCD; 8.26C
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Native American; Leadership; Heroes past and present; American Revolution;
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ELAR
Integration Theme: Challenges of the Past: Charges for the Present
Unit and TEKS
Unit 04: Writing the Constitution (10 days)
8.1ABC; 8.4CDE; 8.15ABC; 8.17A; 8.19B; 8.21BC; 8.25AC; 8.26B; 8.29BCE; 8.30C
Unit 05: More Perfect Union (10 days)
8.1AB; 8.5A; 8.15CD; 8.16A; 8.18AB; 8.22A; 8.29BI; 8.30D
Unit and TEKS
Unit 02: Real-Life Challenges: Persuasive Writing and texts; The Media, and Poetry
8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABE; 8.7A; 8.8A; 8.9A; 8.10B; 8.11AB; 8.13ABC; 8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABE; 8.3C; 8.4A; 8.7A;
8A; 8.13ABC; 8.14ABCDE; 8.15Bi-iii; 8.16A; 8.17C; 8.19Ai,vBC; 8.20ABi; 8.28A
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Declaration of Independence; persuasion; expository; non-fiction
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ELAR
Integration Theme: One Small Step . . . We all make a difference
Unit and TEKS
Unit 06: Early Republic (10 days)
8.1ABC; 8.5ABCDE; 8.20B; 8.21A; 8.22AB; 8.26B; 8.29ABDI; 8.30CD
Unit 07: Age of Jackson (10 days)
8.1AB; 8.5BFG; 8.7CD; 8.17B; 8.18AB; 8.21A; 8.29BEI; 8.30ABD
Unit and TEKS
Unit 03: Reflecting on challenges; Expository Text, cont’d; Informational Text; Drama
8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABCDE; 8.9A; 8.10ABCD; 8.12AB; 8.13BC; 8.14ABCDE; 8.17Ai-vB; 8.19Aii,iv,vBC; 8.20ABi,ii; 8.22AB; 8.23A; 8.25AC; 8.26AB; 8.28A; 8.5A; 8.13BC;
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Letters from survivors; Myths vs. reality in history; Student-selected Biographies of American revolutionaries
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ELAR
Integration Theme: The Challenge of Change: Voices in the Struggle
Unit and TEKS
Unit 08: Manifest Destiny (10 days)
8.1ABC; 8.6ABCDE; 8.10A; 8.11A; 8.23D; 8.26B; 8.29ABCDEI; 8.30ABCD
Unit 09: Industrialism: North and South Economies Develop (10 days)
8.1AB; 8.5D; 8.11B; 8.12ABCD; 8.13AB; 8.14AB; 8.23B; 8.27ABCD; 8.28AB; 8.29ABEH; 8.30ABCD
Unit and TEKS
Unit 04: Voices and Challenges: Reflecting across genres; Poetry; Expository; Drama
8.Fig19BCDEF; 8.2ABCD; 8.3ABC; 8.4A; 8.5A; 8.6ABC; 8.7A; 8.8A; 8.14ABCD; 8.15Ai-v; 8.16A; 8.19C; 8.20Bii; 8.Fig19BCDEF; 8.2ABCD; 8.9A; 8.10ABCD; 8.11AB; 8.14ABCD; 8.17Ai-vB; 8.19C; 8.20Bii
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Reform: Philiss Wheatley; Frederick Douglass; Henry David Thoreau; Abraham Lincoln
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ELAR
Integration Theme: The Call to Action
Unit and TEKS
Unit 10: Reform and Culture (7 days)
8.1AB; 8.22B; 8.23E; 8.24AB; 8.25B; 8.26ABC; 8.29BI; 8.30CD
Unit 11: Sectionalism and Civil War (13 days)
8.1ABC; 8.7ABCD; 8.8ABC; 8.12A; 8.17B; 8.18AC; 8.20C; 8.21AC; 8.22AB; 8.29BDI; 8.30ABCD
Unit and TEKS
Unit 05: The Challenge of Communicating
Reading Across Genres; Drama:
8.Fig19BCDEF; 8.2ABCD; 8.3ABC; 8.6ABC; 8.10ACD; 8.14ABCD; 8.14ABCDE; 8.15Ai-v
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Rhetoric in speech and writing; inciting change through words
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ELAR
Integration Theme: If you don’t laugh . . .
Unit and TEKS
Unit 12: Reconstruction (10 days)
8.1AB; 8.9ABCD; 8.16B; 8.21C; 8.29ABCDEJ; 8.30ABCD
Unit 13: Rights and Responsibilities (10 days)
8.15D; 8.19ABCDEF; 8.30ABD
Unit and TEKS
Unit 06: The Challenge of Comedy; The Challenge of Friendship
8.14ABCDE; 8.15Ai-v; 8.Fig19ABCDEF; 8.2ABCDE; 8.9A; 8.10ABCD; 8.12AB; 8.13BC; 8.14ABCDE; 8.17Ai-vB; 8.19Aii,iv,vBC; 8.20ABi,ii; 8.22AB; 8.23A; 8.25AC; 8.26AB; 8.28A
Shared Concepts and Vocabulary:
Irony; Reconstruction; Satire; Cycles of struggle
This is a quick run down of all statewide expectations for your learning for this year.