Common Core State Standards for English Language

Arts/Literacy
Grade Level 8 Year Unit Plans Overview

Unit Themes
Unit 1 Human Rights
Unit 2 Resilience
Unit 3 The Adoration of Jenna Fox and Ethics in
Science
Unit 4 Justice v. Injustice-The Civil Rights
Movement
Unit 5 WW 2 The Holocaust
Unit 6 WW 2 Japanese Internment
Unit 7 Persepolis: Middle East Politics
Unit 8 War on Terror

The following are sample unit plan overviews organized for the year. Use
this guide for creating or modifying your own unit plans using a similar
format. We attempted to address topics and themes that are currently
suggested in the Literacy, Science, and Social Science Frameworks. The
unit plan overview template was designed and created by a Chicago Public
School teacher, Katherine Beckett a member of the 2014 Literacy
Curriculum Project.