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ELA Core 8th Grade
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance: Civic Life & Shared Histories
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance: Civic Life & Shared Histories
California CCSS: Focus Standards
RI.8.1
RI.8.3
SL.8.1.b
SL.8.1.c
SL.8.1d
W.8.9.b
L.8.2.c
L.8.4.c
L.8.4.d
L.8.4b
RI.8.2
L.8.4.a
W.8.2.a
W.8.2.b
W.8.4
L8.4.c
L.8.4.b
L.8.5.b
RI.8.5
L8.4.a
RI.8.9
L.8.1.a
RI.8.6
L.8.2.a
W.8.2.c
W.8.2.d
W.8.5
SL.8.1.a
SL.8.1.d
RI.8.7
W.8.7
L.8.2.b
W.8.8
L.8.5b
SL.8.1a
W.8.2.e
W.8.2.f
RI.8.4
SL.8.2
L.8.5.a
SL.8.1
SL.8.1b
L.8.3.a
L.8.1
L.8.5.c
L.8.6
W.8.6
W.8.3.a
W.8.3.b
W.8.3.c
SL.8.4
SL.8.6
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ELD Standards
ELD.PI.8.1
ELD.PI.8.3
ELD.PI.8.6
ELD.PII.8.2b.Em
ELD.PII.8.2b.Ex
ELD.PII.8.2b.Br
ELD.PI.8.5
ELD.PI.8.6a.Em
ELD.PI.8.6a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.6a.Br
ELD.PI.8.6b.Em
ELD.PI.8.6b.Ex
ELD.PI.8.6b.Br
ELD.PI.8.9
ELD.PII.8.1
ELD.PII.8.6
PII.8.4
ELD.PII.8.3
ELD.PI.8.12a.Em
ELD.PI.8.12a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.12a.Br
PI.8.1
PI.8.6a.Em
PI.8.6a.Ex
PI.8.6a.Br
PII.8.2b.Em
PII.8.2b.Ex
PII.8.2b.Br
ELD.PI.8.2
ELD.PII.8.4
ELD.PI.8.7
ELD.PI.8.10a.Em
ELD.PI.8.10a.Ex
ELD.PI.8.10a.Br
ELD.PII.8.7
PI.8.10a.Em
PI.8.10a.Ex
PI.8.10a.Br
ELD.PI.8.4
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Lessons
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Lessons
Assessments
Additional Resources
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Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding Segregation
Spark
Duration:
30 min
Lesson 2: Introducing John Lewis
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding the Effects of Segregation
Spark
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 4: March: Book One, Prologue
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 5: March: Book One, USA Today Bloody Sunday gallery, and “Confrontations for Justice”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 6: Informational Paragraph Writing: Bloody Sunday
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 7: March: Book One: The Chickens
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 8: March: Book One, Central Ideas of John Lewis’ Childhood
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 9
Not Yet Ingested
Lesson 10
Not Yet Ingested
Lesson 11: March: Book One: The Trip North
Reading
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 12: March: Book One, Going to School
Reading
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 13: March: Book One, Central Ideas of Going to School
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 14: March: Book One, Getting Involved in the Civil Rights Movement
Reading
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 15: Comparing Texts: March: Book One, “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words,” “Mayor Stops Boycott Talk”
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 16: Explanatory Paragraph Writing: Comparing Information about Historical Events
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 17: Explanatory Paragraph Writing: Writing Across Texts
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 18: March: Book One, Meeting Dr. King
Reading
Duration:
10 min
Lesson 19: Academic Discussion I — Civic Change
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 20: Mid-Unit Assessment
Mid-unit Assessment
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 21: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 22: Flex Research: Selecting a Topic for the Civic Memory Brief
Research
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 23: Flex Research: Conducting Research
Research
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 24: March: Book One, Workshop on Nonviolence
Reading
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 25: March: Book One, Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 26: Freedom Riders Training for Nonviolent Civil Rights Protest
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 27: Jim Lawson and the Nashville Nonviolence Training
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 28: Explanatory Letter Writing, Part 1
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 29: Explanatory Letter Writing (Part 2)
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 30: First Nashville Sit-Ins
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 31: Academic Discussion: Making Connections in a Fishbowl Discussion
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 32: Nashville Student Protestors Face Discrimination and Arrest
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 33: The March on Nashville City Hall
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 34: Comparing and Contrasting March and a News Report
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 35: Academic Discussion: Synthesizing Lewis’s Structural Choices in March
Academic discussion
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 36: Analyzing an Op-Ed
Reading
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 37: Explanatory Paragraph Writing IV
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 38: End-of-Unit Assessment
End Unit Assessment
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 39: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 40: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief: Planning and Prewriting
Writing
Duration:
50 min
Lesson 41: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief: Drafting
Writing
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 42: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief: Cover Creation
Writing
Duration:
30 min
Lesson 43: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief Peer Review and Revision
Writing
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 44: Flex Day: Skill-Based Huddles
Flex day
Duration:
40 min
Lesson 45: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief (Presentation Practice)
Presentation
Duration:
0 min
Lesson 46: Multimedia Civic Memory Brief (Presentation)
Presentation
Duration:
50 min