Subject: English

Grade: 8
Week of Feb 7 – 11, 2022

Day Unit Title / Skill Objectives Homework Notes

UNIT 4: Human Discussion: What is intelligence? What limits might there be on capacity of
Intelligence human memory? Is knowledge important?
Monday

Objectives: Students will be able to communicate and share their feelings

(Speaking) about knowledge and intelligence
UNIT 4: Human Introduction to informative writing
Intelligence Reading: Launch text (The Human Brain)
(Reading and Discuss and analyze text
Speaking)
Tuesday

Vocabulary: impressive, process, voluntary, involuntary, transmit, effective

Objectives: Students will be able to identify what informative writing is and
identify elements in launch text. They will also expand their vocabulary

UNIT 4: Human Discuss learning styles (students will do an online questionnaire to check their
Intelligence learning styles and discuss their findings. They will suggest ways to help their
Wednesday

(Group learning)
Diuscussion) Objective: Students will be able to talk about their own learning styles and
what activities they should do to improve themselves
UNIT 4: Human Writing (Pair/Small Group Work): Summarize the ways we learn and how we
Intelligence can improve ourselves, present your writing
Thursday

(Writing/Pair Objectives: Students will be able to write a short informative piece about
Work) learning styles based on their notes from previous lesson
UNIT 4: Human Lesson 1: Grammar: Transitive and Intransitive verbs, Direct and Indirect Grammar sheet on Deadline for third
Intelligence Objects transitive/ intransitive quarter book
(Reading/ Objectives: Students will be able to identify verbs that have an object, and verbs and direct/indirect summary
Comprehension/ they will be able to tell the difference between direct and indirect objects objects (February 12,
Writing) midnight)
Friday

Lesson 2: Comprehension
Objective: Through independent reading students will improve their
vocabulary and answer basic questions about the text to improve their
sentence structure and analytical skills
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