Grade+8,+Unit+6

= = == =UNIT 6: “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is reading a poem or a script for a play different from performing it?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =NOVEL:=
 * =//Decisions Decisions, Perfection Learning (2000)//=
 * =//Prentice Hall Literature Timeless Voices, Timeless, Silver Level (2002)//=
 * = //The Giver// by Lois Lowry =

=POETRY:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =NONFICTION:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:=
 * = "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost (E) =
 * ="All But Blind" by Walter de la Mare=
 * ="The Choice" by Dorothy Park=
 * ="Dusting" by Julia Alvarez=
 * ="Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford=
 * ="The Order of Things" by Michel Foucault=
 * = "Flowers For Algernon" by Daniel Keyes =
 * = "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury =
 * = "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros =
 * =“The Front of the Bus” by Rosa Parks=
 * =Artemisia Gentileschi, //Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting// (1638-1639)=
 * =Diego Velázquez, //Juan de Pareja// (1650)=
 * =Peter Weir, dir, //The Truman Show// (1998)=
 * =Ralph Nelson, dir, //Charly (1968)// (YouTube.com)=
 * =Jeff Blecker,, dir, //Flowers for Algernon// (2000)=
 * =Reading Guide: //The Giver// (Scholastic BookFiles)=
 * =SAT Vocabulary Study: //The Giver// by Lois Lowry (Laying the Foundation)=
 * =Compare and Contrast Venn Worksheet (eduplace.com)=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=

=MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Allegory=
 * =Hero/heroine=
 * =Satire=
 * =Strength of character=
 * =Symbolism=
 * =Style=
 * =Irony=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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