Course Outline Grade 8

(Accessing language skills through Afro-Asian literature)

First Grading

I. Appreciating my family as a unit

 Literary dashboard (African poem)
 Literary jump-pad ( telephone conversation)
 Enriching vocab ( idiomatic expression)
 Short quiz
 Literary skill focus ( sensory images: satire and irony )
 Grammar ( parallelism )
 Reading ( scanning and logical connectors)
 Listening ( juncture and rate )
 Pause and post (habits of healthy families)
 Think and link (organizing thoughts using graphic organizers )
 Top the trends (meet my family)

II. Bridging gaps within the family

 Literary dashboard ( African poem)
 Literary jump pad (once upon a time)
 Enriching vocab ( collocations)
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( tone and mood )
 Grammar ( cohesive devices)
 Reading (skimming)
 Listening ( pitch and word stress)
 Speaking ( rhythm and intonation)
 Pause and post ( the two brothers)
 Think and link (outlining )
 Top the trends ( the fab fam chat )

III. Maintaining family harmony

 Literary dashboard (African poem )
 Literary jump (the mask)
 Enriching vocab (local culture)
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( author’s purpose and technique)
 Grammar ( simple present tense )
 Listening (volume and projection)
 Reading ( extensive reading vs. intensive reading )
  Speaking ( stance and behavior in delivering a speech)
 Pause and post ( we love our family warts and all)
 Think and link ( writing an informative essay )
 Top the trends (keeping peace)

Second Grading

I. Analyzing community problems and solutions

 Literary dashboard ( zaju drama)
 Literary jump-pad ( the injustice done to tou ngo)
 Enriching vocab (figures of speech )
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( types of conflict )
 Grammar problem solution grammatical signals)
 Reading ( interpreting information presented through tables)
 Pause and post ( a look at the state of crime, drugs in the Philippines )
 Think and link (writing a expository paragraph )
 Top the trends (voices of the villagers )

II. Taking care of your community’s natural resources

 Literary dashboard (Japanese haiku )
 Literary jump ( haiku of basho, buson , issa and shiki)
 Enriching vocab ( literal vs. figurative language )
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( elements of poetry : structure)
 Grammar (cause and effect grammatical signals)
 Reading ( interpreting information presented through graphs )
 Listening ( making predictions about the contents of a listening text)
 Pause and post ( environmental problem )
 Think and link ( writing persuasive text)
 Top the trends ( eco jingle )

III. Becoming active community youth member

 Literary dashboard (Chinese parable )
 Literary jump-pad ( the man who spurned the machine )
 Enriching vocab ( figure of speech: hyperbole and litotes)
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( interpreting aphorism)
 Grammar ( general to particular grammatical signals )
 Speaking ( entertainment speech )
 Reading ( interpreting information presented through information maps)
  Pause and post
 Think and link ( writing a factual and personal recount )
 Top the trends (link and share!)

Third Grading

I. Expressing loyalty to your country

 Literary dashboard (Thai folktale )
 Literary jump-pad ( Ta-in and Ta-na)
 Enriching vocab (affixes : prefix and suffix )
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( plot )
 Grammar (modals)
 Listening ( determining the purpose of a speaker)
 Pause and plot
 Think and link ( concept mapping )
 Top the trends ( what to do?)

II. Offering yourself to the nation

 Literary dashboard (Vietnamese legend )
 Literary jump-pad ( the crystal heart )
 Enriching vocab ( types of context clues
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( theme vs. moral of the story )
 Grammar ( two types of conjunctions )
 Speaking ( expression of agreement and disagreement )
 Listening (noting important details when listening )
 Pause and post (freedom writers)
 Think and link (writing an informative essay)
 Top the trends ( a hero’s point of view
III. Honoring your motherland
 Literary dashboard ( essay)
 Literary jump-pad (I am a Filipino )
 Enriching vocab ( propaganda techniques)
 Short quiz
 Literary skills ( history in literature)
 Grammar (intensifiers )
 Reading ( distinguishing fact from opinion)
 Speaking ( persuasive speech )
 Pause and plot ( katipunan: brave sons of the people )
 Think and link ( writing bibliography )
  Top the trends (proud to be Pinoy! )

Fourth Grading

I. Rising up amid Global competition

 Literary dashboard ( indian short story )
 Literary jump-pad ( the victory)
 Enriching vocab ( using print materials for vocabulary building)
 Short quiz
 Literary skills (flashback and foreshadowing)
 Grammar ( tense of the verb)
 Reading ( positions of topic sentence )
 Listening (making inferences as listening skills )
 Pause and post ( smaller and smaller circles : an excerpt )
 Think and link ( writing a news report)
 Top the trends ( Global pinoy drama)

II. Preserving your culture in a multicultural world

 Literary dashboard ( hebrew poem )
 Literary jump-pad ( an arab shepherd is searching for his goat in Mount Zion)
 Enriching vocab ( denotative and connotative meanings )
 Short quiz
 Literary skill ( symbolism )
 Grammar ( transformative passive voice to active voice and vice versa)
 Speaking (declamation speech: selection and delivery )
 Reading ( interpreting instructions and rules )
 Pause and post ( reason for racial and ethnic discrimination against the Filipinos )
 Think and link ( writing an opinion article )
 Top the trends ( design a sign )

III. Acknowledging boundaries among different worlds

 Literary dashboard ( Arabian folktale )
 Literary jump-pad ( the story of the merchant and the genie )
 Enriching vocab ( word webs )
 Short quiz
 Literary skill ( relationship between setting and characters )
 Grammar ( changing direct to indirect speech )
 Reading ( general and specific statements )
 Listening ( summarizing as listening skill )
 Speaking dashboard (non-verbal communication)
 Pause and post
 Think and link ( writing a news feature article )
 Top the trends ( write your role act your role )