Students tell the story of a jellyfish moving through the water using transformations of quadratic functions in standard form.Students sketch graphs of the transformations.Students put all four transformations on one graph to check that their story and transformations work as desired.  Students may change any transformations prior to submission.

In this lesson, the students will explore and learn how to translate two step algebraic expressions from words and real-world scenarios. The teacher will engage students in discussion and facilitate their learning as they encounter a variety of learning styles including sorts, self-check games, and drag-and-drop modeling. The attached PDF provides links to the resources and materials.

OverviewIn this lesson, the students will explore and learn how to translate two step algebraic expressions from words and real-world scenarios. The teacher will engage students in discussion and facilitate their learning as they encounter a variety of learning styles. The attached document provides links to the resources and materials.

OverviewIn this lesson, the students will explore and learn how to translate two step algebraic expressions from words and real-world scenarios. The teacher will engage students in discussion and facilitate their learning as they encounter a variety of learning styles. The attached document provides links to the resources and materials.

OverviewIn this lesson, the students will explore and learn how to translate two step algebraic expressions from words and real-world scenarios. The teacher will engage students in discussion and facilitate their learning as they encounter a variety of learning styles. The attached document provides links to the resources and materials.

Students translate verbal expressions to algebraic expressions.  Included are both paper and online versions.

Students will research a place to create a travel blog to entice their audience to visit this place.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union at the onset of the Cold War.  Students will analyze primary and secondary sources in this lesson, and they will work independently as well as in a group.  

In this unit, students will delve deeper into the genre of myth to access appropriate standards.  The students will use Greek Mythology as a vehicle to master and apply fiction comprehension skills.  Students will also explore the background of Greek philosophers while applying and mastering nonfiction comprehension skills.  The students will show mastery by completing a Persuasive Writing Performance Based Assessment.

In this unit, students will delve deeper into nonfiction with a novel study titled, I Am Malala.  The students will apply nonfiction comprehension skills and close reading strategies to analyze and explore the challenges of an adolescent girl from a different culture analyze while reading.  The students will show mastery by completing a Persuasive Writing Performance Based Assessment. 

In this unit, students will examine the global topic of refugees.  The students will use nonfiction articles that provide students a background knowledge of the topic.  The articles will be the resources used to support learning of nonfiction VDOE Grade 8 standards. Students will apply comprehension skills daily throughout the unit of study.   The acquired background knowledge will support the second half of the unit as students will take part in a novel study using Refugee.   The students will show mastery by completing a persuasive writing performance based assessment. 

In this unit, students will delve into a novel study for Refugee.  The students will use the novel as a vessel to practice and apply comprehension skills.  Students will also explore the challenges of three adolescents who are all faced with the difficult decisions of having to leave their homes.   The students will show mastery by completing a Persuasive Writing Performance Based Assessment. 

This unit will focus on the not-so-distant future of the students - employment.  Students will analyze the process to identify necessary character traits of a strong employee by reading nonfiction and making connections between their lives and the reading by exploring potential careers.  The unit will culminate with a persuasive essay about the qualities of a good employee.

In this unit, students read the novel, Lyddie, by Katherin Patterson.  Students will read a variety of fiction and nonfiction through the novel to make connections between characters and settings.  Additionally, students will engage in character analysis to help them understand author's conventions.  Finally, students will engage in vocabulary study to help them understand the connotations and denotations of words as well as enhance reading comprehension.

In this unit, students read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selections about acts of courage, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary.  Throughout the unit students will assume the role of a blogger and write expository essay profiles about the people and characters they read about and their acts of courage.  This work will be curated in a Google Site that will serve as the Performance Based Assessment. 

In this unit, students will read the novel, A Long Walk to Water, analyzing characterization, plot, and setting in small groups.   Students will read informational text and watch videos about The Lost Boys of Sudan and the water shortage crisis in Sudan to give them background knowledge regarding major events in the novel.   A journaling activity will be used to help students respond to events in the novel.   The unit will culminate with a two voice poem performance based assessment.

Multiple Meaning WordsDirections: Students will work in teacher-assigned pairs to determine the meaning and part of speech of words with multiple meanings. Students will then write grammatically-correct and correctly constructed sentences for each word. Each sentence must include context clues that allow the reader to determine the meaning of the word as it is being used in the sentence.     

Students will identify the meaning of the given prefixes and will work together to list as many words as possible that can be created from each. For each word, students will write a definition and identify the part of speech of the word.