• Syllabus

    Syllabus

    Grade 8 English                                          Mrs. Flamio

    Class of 2024-2025

    2024-2025

     

    Throughout the course of your 8th grade school year you will learn literacy skills necessary for college and career readiness. You will participate in a variety of learning activities including whole-class, pairs, independent and small group learning.

    For Suggested Optional Summer Reading please see the link below:

    https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/8th-grade-summer-reading

     

     

     

    Required Supplies:

    Blue/ Black Pens

    Earbuds/headphones

    Highlighters

    4 composition notebooks

    3 pads of different color Post- it notes

    Standard binder with lined paper and 2 folders

     

     

    Grading Policy and Curriculum Pacing Guide

    • Homework 10%
    • Classwork 20%
    • Test 25%
    • Quizzes 20%
    • Authentic Assessment 25%

     

    All classwork must be completed the day it is assigned, unless instructed otherwise.

     

    Homework will only be accepted for a late grade the week it is due, but ten points will be deducted for each day it is late.

     

    Tests and quizzes will be announced a few days prior.

     

    Please take pride in your work and turn it in on time.

     

    Pacing Guide Sample- (Will be revised for 2024-2025 school year)

    Grade 8 Pacing Guide

    Module 1

    Week of 

    Text(s)

    Assessment(s)

    Week of 9/11

    Growth Measure

    “Teens and Decision Making”

    “What’s Going On In Your Brain?”

     "Insight Into the Teenage Brain" 

    Growth Measure 

    9/11 - 9/15

    Extended Writing 

    (Writing Baseline)

    10/9-10/13

    Benchmark 1

    10/30 - 11/3

    Performance Task 1

    11/13-11/17


    Closed in Edulastic by:

    Extended Writing Task 

    10/20

    Benchmark I

    11/15

    Performance Task

    12/8

    Week of 9/18

    Week of 9/25

    Week of 10/2

    “Hanging Fire” 

    “Summer of His Fourteenth Year” 

    Extended Writing Task

    Week of 10/9

    Week of 10/16

    “The Debt We Owe to the Adolescent Brain”

    Week of 10/23

    NIH study tracks effects of social media on adolescent brains (video)

    “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”

    Week of 10/30

    Benchmark I

    Marigolds

    Week of 11/6

    Week of 11/13

    “Outsmart Your Smartphone” 

    Week of 11/20

    Performance Task I

    Week of 11/27

    Revisions and Reflection (Writing Log)




    Module 2

    Week of 

    Text(s)

    Assessment(s)

    Week of 12/4

    Text in Focus Video: What Is the Horror Genre?: Understanding the Horror Genre

    “What is the Horror Genre?”

    Growth Measure II

    12/11 - 12/22

    Extended Writing 

    12/18/12/22

    Benchmark II

    1/29 - 2/2

    Performance Task II

     2/12 - 2/16



    Closed in Edulastic by:

    Extended Writing Task II

    1/10

    Benchmark II

    2/9

    Performance Task II

     3/1

    Week of 12/11

    “The Tell-Tale Heart”

    Extended Writing Task

    Week of 12/18

    Week of 1/3

    “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs

    from The Monkey’s Paw (film clip)

    Week of 1/8

    Week of 1/15

    The Masque of Red Death

    Week of 1/22

    Week of 1/29

    Benchmark II

    from Chapter 3 of Coraline

    Week of 2/5

    RL Stine’s “Intro to the Master Class”

    How to Write a Horror Story in 7 Steps

    Week of 2/12

    Performance Task

    Week of 2/26

    Revisions and Reflection (Writing Log)



    Module 3

    Week of 

    Text(s)

    Assessment(s)

    Week of 3/4

    Frederick Douglass’s Purpose

    Meeting Fredrick Douglass

    Learning to Read

    Extended Writing Task w/ Revisions

    Growth Measure Assessment

    4/8 - 4/12 

    Extended Writing Task

    3/18- 3/22

    Benchmark III

    4/15 - 4/19

    Performance Task 3

    5/20- 5/24

    Research Paper

    6/10 - 6/21


    Scored in Edulastic by:

    Extended Writing Task

    3/27

    Benchmark

    4/26

    Research Paper

    6/21

    Week of 3/11

    Week of 3/18

    Week of 3/25

    from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

    Week of 4/8

    “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

    Benchmark II

    Week of 4/15

    Week of 4/22

    Mrs. Parks Gets Arrested

    &

     “Lunch at Woolworth’s” 

    Week of 4/29

    Week of 5/6

    from Walking with the Wind by John Robert Lewis

    Week of 5/13

    “I Have A Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr

    Week of 5/20

    Contemporary Social Movements in America Research Paper

    Week of 5/27

    Week of 6/3

    Week of 6/10

    Week of 6/17

    Research Paper Revisions and Reflection