8th Language Lesson Plans
for August and September (*lessons are subject to change)
Thursday, August 23
Intro: Prayer, Ice-breaker “Getting to Know You…”
Objective: acclimation with classroom, rules, expectations and courses of study, etc.
Due: Title page and autobiographical poem (due Aug. 31st)
Friday, August 24
Cavalier Green and Gold Day for Junior High
Monday, August 27
Intro: Prayer, personal journaling (“Drummer Boy of Shiloh” picture p.6)
Objective: Notes…review study skills (developing a study plan p. 549-550)
Assign: personal study schedule
Tuesday, August 28
Intro: Prayer, Free to Read
Objective: Notes…continue study skills unit (taking notes p.551),
Assign: read “Drummer Boy of Shiloh” Lit. p. 7
Wednesday, August 29
Intro: Prayer, DOL
Objective: review use for summaries to recollect notes and chapters, cooperative learning—create a modified outline for “Drummer Boy…”
Assign: remaining summary
Thursday, August 30
Intro: Prayer, RAFT
Objective: reading strategy of finding world meaning in context and spelling skills
Assign: spelling p. 2
Friday, August 31
Intro: Prayer, vocabulary study
Objective: discuss strategies for taking tests and different types of test questions
Assign: quiz over “Drummer Boy” Tuesday, Autobiographical Poem due
Monday, September 3
No School—Labor Day
Tuesday, September 4
Intro: Prayer
Objective: Assessment on “Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” Free to Read
Assign: I Am Poem due Friday
Wednesday, September 5
Intro: Prayer, DOL
Objective: pre-chapter assessment over nouns and pronouns
Assign: none
Thursday, September 6
Intro: Prayer, RAFT
Objective: notes on Ch. 14 Nouns and Pronouns (collective, compound, common and proper)
Assign: none
Friday, September 7
Intro: Prayer, review of Thursday’s notes
Objective: in class work over nouns
Assign: I Am Poem due
Monday, September 10
Intro: Prayer, personal journaling (“Charles”)
Objective: assignment over nouns due at the end of class
Assign: “Look in the Mirror” Poem due Friday
Tuesday, September 11
Intro: Prayer, Free to Read
Objective: listen to “Charles” Lit book p. 20
Assign: none
Wednesday, September 12
Intro: Prayer, DOL (pronouns)
Objective: discuss reading strategy of identifying word origins and point of view
Assign: Point of View assignment
Thursday, September 13
Intro: Prayer
Objective: discuss spelling strategy; in-class work with vocabulary and spelling skills
Assign: quiz over “Charles” on Friday
Friday, September 14
Intro: Prayer
Objective: assessment on “Charles,” RAFT
Assign: “Look in the Mirror” Poem due
Monday, September 17
Intro: Prayer, review of nouns (p. 8)
Objective: notes on Ch. 14 Pronouns (Pronouns/Antecedents and Personal Pronouns)
Assign: Opposite Poem due Friday
Tuesday, September 18
Intro: Prayer, Free to Read
Objective: cooperative learning on pronouns and antecedents
Assign: none
Wednesday, September 19
Intro: Prayer, DOL
Objective: notes on Ch. 14 Pronouns (Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative and Indefinite)
Assign: newspaper article from home
Thursday, September 20
Intro: Prayer, RAFT
Objective: Cooperative learning—finding pronouns in everyday writing
Assign: Nouns and Pronouns test on Tuesday, September 25
Friday, September 21
Intro: Prayer
Objective: Individual in-class assignment on pronouns
Assign: Opposite Poem due; practice test due Monday
Monday, September 24
Intro: Prayer, personal journaling
Objective: Correct and review for test together with class
Assign: study for test, Lantern Poem due Friday
Tuesday, September 25
Intro: Prayer
Objective: Assessment over Ch. 14; Free to Read
Assign: none
Wednesday, September 26
Intro: Prayer; DOL
Objective: Review tests; read “The Road Not Taken,” “All But Blind,” and “The Choice,” together as a class.
Assign: none
Thursday, September 27
Intro: Prayer, RAFT
Objective: Discuss the reading strategy of paraphrasing and spelling skill
Assign: none
Friday, September 28
Intro: Prayer, build vocabulary
Objective: Discuss speakers in poetry, cooperative learning activity
Assign: Lantern poem due