8th Grade English Language Arts – The Outsiders Unit
Date In-Class Work Students Will Be Able To… Week One Day One - Activation Strategy: Stereotypes Worksheet - Students will be able to research a 31 October 2018 - Intro to S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders given topic with technology - You Tube Movie clip titled “Outsiders Background - Knowledge” by Michael Leonard (8:39 minutes) - Students will be able to collaborate - Students will work in pairs (no more than 2 students working with a peer to find answers appropriate together) to complete the Scavenger Hunt worksheet packet to question-based tasks. before the end of class - Go over the Scavenger Hunt as a Class Discussion Day Two - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to complete an 1 November 2018 bellwork: “What are the first things you notice about someone opinion-based classroom poll when you meet them for the first time? - Students will be able to state and - Brief Class Discussion on Bellwork defend their stance on a given - Pre-Reading Questionnaire and Class Discussion on the statement results - Students will be able to evaluate and - Short writing assignment: Students will write a paragraph on interpret classroom data which result was the most interesting to them and why - Students will be given their “Outsiders Folders” that contain assignments we will be working on over the course of reading the novel - Introduce the rest of the “Outsiders Folders” to students and explain how each piece will be completed and assessed Day Three - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to analyze 2 November 2018 bellwork: “What is characterization? In what ways can an characterization in a text author c reate a character?” - Students will be able to collaborate in - Discuss Bellwork a class discussion - You Tube video: “Character Traits & Characterization” (2:57) -Lagana - You Tube video: “Plot Elements” (2:41) - Mmsiebe - Quick recap on what to listen for as we listen to/read chapter 1 - Listen to audio version of Chapter 1 as a class - Work in Outsiders Folders (Character Charts, Chapter 1 Questions, and Socs vs. Greasers) with group members - Class Discussion on chapter 1 contents in the folders Week Two Day Four - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to make 5 November 2018 bellwork: “After reading Chapter 1 of the novel, what inferences Shortened Day for inferences can you make about what the novel may be about? - Students will be able to cite textual Star Testing Cite 1 piece of textual evidence.” evidence to support a claim - Listen to audio version of Chapter 2 in class - Students will be able to analyze how - Writing Prompt major events in a literary text shape the - Star Testing plot of the story 6 November 2018 - Election Day – No School 7 November 2018 - Field Trip – No Class Day Five - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to depict 8 November 2018 bellwork: “What is Ponyboy’s relationship with each of the character relationships following characters: Sodapop, Darry, Two-Bit, Steve, Dally, - Students will be able to collaborate in Johnny, Cherry?” class activities with peers - Plicker Review Game for Chapters 1 & 2 - Students will be able to use textual - Class Discussion on Character Charts evidence to support a claim (chapter - Character Map: Class Activity on Poster Board titles) - Go over Chapter Titles activity in Outsiders Folders - Anonymous class contest on best chapter titles Day Six - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to evaluate major 9 November 2018 bellwork: “Compare and Contrast Ponyboy and Johnny. How scenes in a literary text are they similar? How are they different?” - Students will be able to determine the - Discuss Bellwork and add characteristics of Ponyboy and rising action of a plot in a literary text Johnny to Character Charts - Students will be able to use textual - Evaluate events that have taken place thus far evidence to support a claim (chapter - Have students add the first main event to their Plot Sheets titles) - Listen to audio version of Chapter 3 as a class - Complete Chapter 3 Questions as a class - Students will be able to compare and - Create Chapter 3 Titles contrast characters in a literary text Week Three Day Seven - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to determine the 12 November bellwork: “What have you noticed about the language that is meaning of uncommon terms in a 2018 used by the characters in The Outsiders? Do the characters literary text speak the same way that you do? How or how not?” - Students will be able to evaluate how - Listen to audio version of Chapter 4 as a class language conveys meaning in a literary - Students will work on Chapter 4 questions individually for 10 text minutes - Students will be able to depict a main - Complete Chapter 4 questions as a class event and rising action in a literary text - Determine what main event took place in Chapter 4 and add it to Plot Sheets in “Outsiders Folders” - Chain Reaction Slang Game - Create a Chapter Title for Chapter 4 Day Eight - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to analyze 13 November bellwork: “Considering the main event from Chapter 4, what characterization 2018 do you predict will happen next in the novel?” - Students will be able to depict - Listen to audio version of Chapter 5 as a class character relationships - Complete Chapter 5 questions as a class - Students will be able to collaborate in - Work on Character Charts and Character Map class activities with peers - Create a Chapter Title for Chapter 5 - Students will be able to use textual evidence to support a claim (chapter titles) Day Nine - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to determine 14 November bellwork: “What is theme? What do you think the theme(s) of themes in a literary text 2018 The Outsiders is/are?” - Students will be able to compare and - Go over bellringer and have class discussion on the multiple contrast themes of two different themes that are evident in the novel thus far literary texts bf - Go over and review “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost - Students will be able to evaluate the - Discuss and depict figurative langua ge, alliteration, and usage of metaphors and figurative metaphors in the poem as a class language of a literary text - Highlighter activity as a class – Students depict the correlating - Students will be able to depict themes that are seen in Frost’s poem and evident in “The alliteration in a literary text Outsiders” Day 10 - Activating Strategy: Students will complete the following - Students will be able to compare 15 November bellwork: “After connecting the poem, “Nothing Gold Can themes from various literary texts 2018 Stay,” to the novel, do you believe the themes of the novel we - Students will be able to analyze discussed yesterday are evident in other books you have read? characterization If so, what books?” - Students will be able to depict - Listen to audio version of Chapter 6 as a class character relationships - Complete Chapter 6 questions as a class - Students will be able to collaborate in - Add to Character Charts and Character Map class activities with peers - Create Chapter Title for Chapter 6 - Students will be able to use textual evidence to support a claim (chapter titles)