This year we will continue to learn about history, geography, current events and world issues.
"What lasting impact have the civilizations and their culture had on current countries and regions?"
September – December: Social Studies
Global Domination Challenge – What do you know about world geography?
Atlas and Mapping skills – Understanding our world
Current Events – What in the World?
Indigenous Perspectives
English:
Who is your name?
Memory Map and write a story about an event that defines you.
Culture of Writing? We will explore different styles of writing and their purposes.
News - Study perspective, first oral presentation, and reading for information.
Poetry - Introduction to literary devices, styles of poems, and visual representation of images
December - February Social Studies:
The Fall of Rome and rise of the Barbarians (200 CE to 800 CE)
Medieval Perspectives (1100-1400)
English:
Think Papers - learning to support your opinion
Persuasive Essays
Reports
Crispin: Cross of Lead novel study - exploring the Middle Ages/Feudalism through literature
Graphic Novel Study of Classic Literature and the values of the time based on their stories
March - June Social Studies:
Forging Civilizations influence on the Renaissance (500 CE to 1600 CE)
Exploration and the Americas (1400 – 1700)
Emergence of the Nation-State
English:
Legends - The Legends of the First Peoples of Canada read
- Write your own legend
- Story telling - you will tell your story
The Outsiders - Novel Study
A focus this year will be to develop students’ critical thinking skills. Students will explore and provide evidence for how they see history impact the current global situation. Students will become aware of the dynamics of the global events on several levels.
Activities and Assignments will include:
• learn about the past through graphs, maps and photographs • learn how to conduct research through primary and secondary resources •make connections between how events of the past have current implications and how we are continuing to define and change today • investigate global issues that continue to affect the human race • debate and discuss possible solutions to world issues • learn how to make a hypothesis and support it with evidence • understand timelines
English 8 Course Outline
Welcome to English 8!
"Why is literacy a relevant and critical endeavor? If you could not read or write how might that impact you and your opportunities?"
Students will be exploring the social studies curriculum with related novel studies, vocabulary development, and creation of various forms of text.
This year we will learn about:
story and text analysis
strategies and processes for reading, writing, metacognition, and oral language
language features, structures and conventions
oral presentation techniques
students will keep a daily reading log
journal thoughts and ideas
A focus this year will be to develop students’ critical thinking skills. Students will explore and provide evidence by expressing their ideas, thoughts, and emotions through writing.
A second focus will be to explore stories and what lessons/relevance they have for either informing or entertaining us. How do humans use reading, writing and oral language as a tool for entertainment to promote culture and disseminate cultural norms?
Activities and Assignments will include:
• Daily reading • Daily writing • Oral presentations • Discussion/Debate • Think Papers/Essays - learning how to make hypotheses and support with evidence • understanding timelines
Evaluation:
Grades are equally distributed over the three terms (33.3%). The expectation is that students complete all assigned work and stay for homework club if there are missed assignments. Each term varies on how marks are collected as some units lend themselves to discussion, journals, quizzes, games, reading logs, projects and oral presentations. The larger assignments carry the most weight. Each class students complete a self assessment based on how they used class time, did the meet the goals set for that class and appropriate class behavior. This is a mark out of /5 and a G/S/N for attitude/effort.
Participation Students are expected to contribute to class discussions and participate positively in class.
Homework Homework will consist of short reviews of classroom concepts, reading assignments, research and completing daily class work if it is not completed in class. Students will be informed via the Remind App for larger assignments, there is also www.mskhardy.weebly.com where students can access assignments and timelines.
Assignments Students will be expected to apply knowledge through larger projects. These may include research, preparing oral presentations, making artifacts, role playing or charting. Some assignments will be completed individually and others will be group projects. Knowledge can be shared in a wide variety of ways and assignments will allow for different ways of knowing. Student may approach me with ideas they have about how they wish to show their learning.
Tests and Quizzes Quizzes and tests will be used to evaluate concepts, knowledge and application. I regularly use a quick quiz for the main ideas from the previous day, there will be vocabulary building quizzes and there will also be reflection journals used at the end of classes regularly. Students should make daily reading and review a practice throughout the year.