TEACHER ELEMENTS

STUDENT ELEMENTS

GRADE 8

GRADE 8

THE TEACHER SHALL:

THE STUDENT SHOULD:

REVIEW, RETEACH, AND REASSESS PAST CONCEPTS.

NEW CONCEPTS

NEW CONCEPTS

Explain the use of quotation marks (e.g., around titles of works published as parts of other works). Teach the use of underlining/caps/italics to write titles (e.g., of works published independently). Teach correct use of colons (e.g., in expressions of time, in business letters, after a statement followed by a list). Teach the use of commas after introductory words; around interrupters, dates, and addresses.

Use quotation marks correctly (e.g., around titles of works published as parts of other works). Use underlining/caps/italics to write titles (e.g., of works published independently). Use colons correctly (e.g., in expressions of time, in business letters, after a statement followed by a list). Use commas correctly

Teach the uses of nouns (e.g., direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, predicate nouns, appositives, and nouns of direct address).

Formulate examples of nouns used as direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, predicate nouns, appositives, and nouns of direct address.

Explain the punctuation of appositives and nouns of direct address.

Punctuate correctly appositives and nouns of direct address.

Teach the location and punctuation of direct and indirect quotations.

Locate and punctuate direct and indirect quotations correctly.

Review the four types of verbs (Transitive Active, Transitive Passive, Intransitive Linking, and Intransitive Complete).

Generate sentences using the four types of sentences (Transitive Active, Transitive Passive, Intransitive Linking, and Intransitive Complete ).

Explain the use of the verb pairs "to lie/to lay," "to rise/to raise," and "to sit/to set."

Generate sentences using forms of "to lie/to lay," "to rise/to raise," and "to sit/to set."

Explain the three types of verbals (gerunds, participles, and infinitives).

Identify the three types of verbals in sentences.

Introduce increasingly more complicated independent and dependent clauses.

Recognize and write increasingly more complicated independent and dependent clauses.

Teach the definitions of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

Generate simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

Teach co-ordinate (simple and correlative) conjunctions, subordinate conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs.

Recognize, use, and correctly punctuate sentences which contain co-ordinate (simple and correlative) conjunctions, subordinate conjunctions, and conjunctive adverbs.

Teach the punctuation of compound sentences which require semicolons and/or commas.

Correctly write and punctuate compound sentences which require semicolons and/or commas.

Teach the use of semicolons in compound sentences which have no co-ordinate conjunctions, which have internal punctuation in either independent clause, and/or which have conjunctive adverbs.

Use semicolons correctly in compound sentences which have no co-ordinate conjunctions, which have internal punctuation in either independent clause, or which have conjunctive adverbs.

Explain how to write compound sentences so that both parts of the sentence are related in content and are equal in importance.

Write compound sentences in which both parts of the sentence are related in content and are equal in importance.

Explain adjective clauses.

Recognize and generate complex sentences containing adjective clauses.

Teach adverb clauses.

Recognize and generate complex sentences containing adverb clauses.

Teach noun clauses.

Recognize and generate complex sentences containing noun clauses used as subjects, as direct objects, as indirect objects, and as objects of prepositions.

Explain the use of the relative pronouns "who/whom."

Use correctly the relative pronouns "who/whom."