Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding Segregation
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ELA Core 8th Grade
Unit 1: Roots & Remembrance: Civic Life & Shared Histories
Lesson 2: Introducing John Lewis
SparkLesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding the Effects of Segregation
SparkLesson 4: March: Book One, Prologue
ReadingLesson 5: March: Book One, USA Today Bloody Sunday gallery, and “Confrontations for Justice”
Reading
Unit 2: Power, Propaganda & the Art of Persuasion
Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Conditions for Revolution
SparkLesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: Propaganda in Action
SparkLesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Allegory and Symbolism
SparkLesson 4: Animal Farm: Chapter I
ReadingLesson 5: Animal Farm, Chapter II
Reading
Unit 3: Recovery & Reciprocity: Ecology, Science & Our Natural World
Lesson 1: Starting with the Land: Introduction to Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
SparkLesson 2: Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830
SparkLesson 3: Learning from Sweetgrass
SparkLesson 4: Braiding Sweetgrass, Chapters: “An Invitation to Remember,” “Skywoman Falling,” and “Wiingaashk”
ReadingLesson 5: Braiding Sweetgrass, “The Council of Pecans” and “The Gift of Strawberries”
Reading
Unit 4: Stories for the Future: Preserving Memory & Culture
Lesson 1: The Stories That Preserve Our History and Culture
SparkLesson 2: “10 Things: Going Interstellar” and “These Sci-Fi Visions for Interstellar Travel Just Might Work”
SparkLesson 3: “Your Brain Forms Memories Differently Based on How Stories Are Told”
SparkLesson 4: The Last Cuentista, Chapters 1–3
ReadingLesson 5: The Last Cuentista, Chapters 4–6
Reading