8th Grade

March

•   Authors  use the structure of texts to create style and convey meaning.
•   Authors  use allusions to layer deeper meaning in the text.

How does taking a stand in small ways show integrity?

•   Is it worth taking a stand for one’s self? For others?
•   What do   we know that Scout doesn’t?
•   How   does the idea of taking a stand connect to the dramatic irony and Scout’s   perspective?

• Rely on context to determine meanings of words and phrases
• Identify main ideas and their supporting details
• Understand literary terms such as symbolism
• Produce summaries of texts by identifying main ideas and their supporting details
• Analyze text to dertimine motif
• Draw inferences
• Analyze text to determine tone
• Describe and analyze the development of plot and identify conflicts and how they are addressed and resolved
• Identify conflicts and how they are addressed and solved
• Use elements of text to defend and clarify
• understand paradox

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• unsullied
  spotlessly clean and fresh
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an  unsullied Code of Alabama.
• satisfactory
  meeting requirements
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Jem and I found our father  satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.
• tyrannical
  characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her  tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.
• absence
  failure to be present
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her  absence.
• revelation
  an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Dill had seen Dracula, a  revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect.
• concede
  be willing to concede
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  It was all right to shut him up, Mr. Radley  conceded, but insisted that Boo not be charged with anything: he was not a criminal.
• employ
  put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley  employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time.
• decline
  refuse to accept
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  In all his life, Jem had never  declined a dare.
• foray
  a sudden short attack
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his  foray was successful.
• miserable
  very unhappy; full of misery
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  We saw him off on the five o'clock bus and I was  miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school in a week.
• condescend
  do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Jem  condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.
• compel
  force somebody to do something
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Now that I was  compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
• expound
  add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Atticus was  expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses in the house.
• erratic
  liable to sudden unpredictable change
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnia's grammar became  erratic.
• contradict
  prove negative; show to be false
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  "There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to  contradict 'em at the table when they don't.
• humiliation
  strong feelings of embarrassment
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  I retrieved my plate and finished dinner in the kitchen, thankful, though, that I was spared the  humiliation of facing them again.
• amiable
  diffusing warmth and friendliness
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  He waited in  amiable silence, and I sought to reinforce my position: "You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too.
• exclusive
  not divided or shared with others
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  He said that the Ewells were members of an  exclusive society made up of Ewells.
• withdraw
  remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and  withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers.
• unanimous
  in complete agreement
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was  unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
• arbitrate
  act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  Jem  arbitrated, awarded me first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.
• inquisitive
  showing curiosity
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of  inquisitive children, which was a mild term for the likes of us.
• peculiar
  beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  What Mr. Radley did might seem  peculiar to us, but it did not seem  peculiar to him.
• ramshackle
  in deplorable condition
  EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

  The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a  ramshackle porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors.

Taking a Stand: Frayer Model

Answer Text-Dependent Questions

Think-Write- Pair Share -graphic organizer

Structured Notes

Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Analyzing Excerpts of
Lyndon Johnson’s Speech “The Great Society” (RI.8.2, RI.8.5, and RI.8.6)

•   Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (New York: Warner Books, 1982), ISBN:   978-0-446-31486-2.
•   Shirley Chisholm, “Equal Rights for Women,”   speech made on May 21, 1969.
•   Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech   made in May 1851.
•   Lyndon Johnson, “The Great Society,” speech   made on May 22, 1964.
•   To Kill   a Mockingbird, film directed by Robert Mulligan (and starring Gregory   Peck), 1962.
•   Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays,” 1966.
•   Countee Cullen, “Incident,” 1925.
•   Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Solitude,” 1883.
• http://www.frankwbaker.com/INTRODUCTION.htm