TABLE OF CONTENTS

English 8- Second Quarter

Week 1
Day 1 The Culture and Traditions of Egypt Predicting the main point of the
material viewed, determining Positive and negative messages
Day 2 The Story of Osiris and Isis, employing appropriate listening skills and
strategies, determining the tone and mood of speaker or character
Day 3 Literary Devices/Sensory Images/Literal and Figurative Language
Using Literary Devices in Conversations
Day 4 Literary Devices and Types of Irony Using Literary Devices in
Conversations
Day 5 The Two Brothers (Egyptian Folktale) Evaluating Literary Selection
and Reacting to Author’s Assertions
Week 2
Day 1 Prosodic Features of Speech, Writing an entertainment speech, Using
appropriate prosodic features of speech when delivering entertainment
speech
Day 2 Grammatical signals or expressions, Using grammatical signals or
expressions in sentences correctly
Day 3 Paragraph, Writing effective paragraphs
Week 3
Day 1 Prosodic features of speech, Writing an entertainment speech, Using
appropriate features of speech when delivering entertainment speech
Day 2 Grammatical signals or expressions, Using grammatical signals or
expressions in sentences correctly
Day 3 Paragraph. Writing effective paragraphs
Week 4
Day 1 Linear to Non-Linear Texts
Day 2 Connotative and Denotative meaning; Idioms
Day 3 Friendly letter writing
Day 4 Transitional Devices
Week 5
Day 1 Charting Elements of Short Story to Graphic Organizers
Day 2 Hyperbole
 Day 3 Determining The Author’s tone and mood
Day 4 Cause-Effect Relationship
Week 7
Day 1 Employing Attentive Listening Strategies to a News Report
Day 2 The Taximan’s Story/Elements of a Short Story
Day 3 Elements of a Short Story
Day 4 Sentence Structure
Week 8
Day 1 Interpreting Information Presented in Graphs
Day 2 Degrees of Comparison
Day 3 Collocations
Day 4 How to Write a movie Review