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**Grade Level Resources **   [|K-12 ELA Standards Progression] [|DPS Lesson Plan Template]
 * **Standards** || **Quarter 1 Resources** || **Quarter 2 Resources** || **Quarter 3 Resources** || **Quarter 4 Resources** || **Planning Resources** ||
 * = <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|8th Grade Standards Coverage Checklist]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|8th Grade ELA Standards] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Material new to grade highlighted in bold

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|2017-18 DPS Grade 8 Course Overview]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Core 8th grade vocabulary (Flocabulary) list used on state ELA tests
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|Core Vocabulary] **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|ELA Grade 8 Two Pager Side By Side.doc] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">All strands of 8th grade CCSS on two pages. || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|DPS Grade 8 ELA Unit 1]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Unit 1 Map Show Me Video <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Unit 1 Performance Task Resources] [|Middle School Morphology Unit] ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|DPS Grade 8 ELA Unit 2] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> [|Unit 2 Map Show Me Video] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> *Note: The video says Unit 3 - but it IS for Unit 2: Research <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> [|Middle School Morphology Unit] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|DPS Grade 8 ELA Unit 3]

[|Middle School Morphology Unit] ||= <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|DPS Grade 8 ELA Unit 4]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Unit 4 Map Show Me Video] [|Middle School Morphology Unit]

||= **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2017-18 Planning Calendars ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">[|Year-Round ELA Google Calendar]

[|Traditional ELA Google Calendar]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;">Concept Based Unit Ideas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Join the 8th Grade Edmodo Group!] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">**EngageNY Resources** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">**Unit 1:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Reading Closely & Writing to Learn <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Finding Home: Refugees] <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Working with Evidence <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Taking A Stand]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Unit 2: **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Japanese-American Relations during World War II]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Unit 3: **


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Skill Based Unit: **<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Understanding Through Research <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Above All We Had to Learn English: Immigration in Early 20th Century]:


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Unit 4: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Sustainability of the US Food Supply Chain]


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Skill Based Unit: **<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">[|Evidence-Based Claims] (Revisits texts from "Taking A Stand" Unit)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%;">Note: DPS Units are written specifically to address unit standards. Engage NY Units align closely, but not exactly to DPS Course Overviews. Teachers should take care to ensure the inclusion of all required standards for the quarter.