Appendix on Implementing District Standards
R.I.8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Students will be reading several mentor texts to understand the central ideas as part of their focus on the Ideas trait. They will be considering the author’s specific techniques in elaborating and building these ideas.
R.I.8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
This is the work of the Sentence Fluency and Word Choice traits. We will not only study and break down the meaning behind the words and images, but we will be mimicking their schemes to produce similar effects.
R.I.8.5 Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
The study of Sentence Fluency and Voice requires students to closely read the mentor texts to understand the authorial choices.
W.8.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events.
d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Students will write several narratives throughout this unit that build on all of these techniques that are embedded in the 6+1 traits.
W.8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
The final project is revising a personal narrative for the class. We will compile these in an anthology.
W.8.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
Through the writer’s workshop, students will write and then revise their pieces with all of the traits in mind, incorporating feedback from peers and adults.
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