"The Giver"	"The Most Dangerous Game"	"The Necklace"	"The Cask of Amontillado"	"A Death in the House"

First Quarter:

Short Story Unit

• "The Most Dangerous Game"
• "The Scarlet Ibis"
• "The Necklace"
• "The Cask of Amontillado"
• "A Death in the House"

Vocabulary

25 words are chosen every other week from the literature.

10 words are given from Vocabulary Achievement Course Two. (Publisher: Great Source)

Review of Literary Elements

40 elements from English 7

- addition of direct and indirect characterization

- third person limited point of view

- third person objective and third person omniscient

Writing

Creative Writing ( 2- 3 Page Stories)

ELA Practice

Theme Essays

Speaking

Ice Breakers

Second Quarter:

Reading

Drama: "The Miracle Worker"

Use of Literary Elements

Vocabulary

25 Words taken from the play every other week

Writing

Essay on theme

A speech

ELA practice

Speaking

 3-5 minute speech on a disability and a famous person who has over come obstacles involved

Library research involved and use of the computer lab

Grammar

Subject -Verb Agreement (16 Subject- Verb rules)