English Language Arts Grades 7-8 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (7-8.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 7-8.R.9:

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. (RL & RI)

• A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
  What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
• Annotate Text in Google Docs
  Students learn how to annotate text in Google Docs.
• Dr. Cannon Goes to Washington: Utah Statues in National Statuary Hall
  Students will engage with primary source documents to explore the reasons behind memorializing people in public art. Students will craft written or oral statements to support an argument in favor of installing a statue of Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon, Philo T. Farnsworth, or Brigham Young in National Statuary Hall.
• Examining the Struggle for Suffrage & Utah Statehood through Political Cartoons
  This lesson utilizes political cartoons to showcase the national public?s changing attitudes about most Utah women?s rights, from the late 1860s to 1920.
• Learn New Vocabulary with Flash Cards
  Students will create a Slide deck to learn new vocabulary.
• Philip Reid and Freedom
  How are concepts, such as freedom, represented in works of art? What do specific works of art or architectural features tell us about what was important to the people who designed or made them, particularly if they are telling a story about the importance of freedom?
• Secession and the Senate
  What is secession? How did secession of the southern states from the Union during the Civil War affect the Senate and how did the members respond?
• The U.S. House of Representatives and the Gag Rule
  What is a gag rule? Why was a gag rule imposed by the House of Representatives? What are the implications for the country if the House of Representatives should pass other gag rules?

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