English 8
Original Arrangement of Lessons Suggested Arrangement of
per Quarter (MELC) Lessons per Quarter
1st Quarter
 Noting Context Clues
 Writing Bibliography
 Modal Verbs, Nouns and Adverbs
o Story of Aged Mother
 Using Transition Signals
 Expressing Emotional Responses Using a
Range of Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs
2nd Quarter
 Explaining Visual-Verbal Relationships
 Opinion-Marking Signals
 Compare and Contrast Same Topic in
Different Multimodal Texts
 Comparing and Contrasting Own
Opinions
 Analyzing Messages Conveyed in a Text
3rd Quarter
 Recognizing Propaganda Techniques
Used in a given text
 Examining Author’s Bias
 Analyze Literature as a Mirror to a shared
Heritage of People with Diverse
Backgrounds
o Makato and the Cowrie Shell (A
Thai Folktale)
 Determine Various Social, Moral, and
Economic Issues Discussed in the Text
Listened to
 Use Appropriate Cohesive Devices in
Various Types of Speech
 Types of Parallel Structure
4th Quarter
 Appropriate Grammatical Signals for Idea
Development
 Expanding the Content of an Outline
 Composing Effective Paragraphs
 Develop a paragraph that illustrates each
text type (Narrative, Expository, and
Explanatory)
 Develop a paragraph that illustrates each
1st Quarter
 Eight Part of Speech
(Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb,
Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection)
 Verb Tenses
 Modals
 Phrases, Clauses and Basic Sentence
Construction
 Noting Context Clues
 Story of Aged Mother
2nd Quarter
 Using Transition Signals
 Use Appropriate Cohesive Devices in
Various Types of Speech
 Appropriate Grammatical Signals for Idea
Development
 Types of Parallel Structure
 Writing Bibliography
3rd Quarter
 Comparing and Contrasting Own
Opinions
 Analyzing Messages Conveyed in a Text
 Recognizing Propaganda Techniques
Used in a given text
 Determine Various Social, Moral, and
Economic Issues Discussed in the Text
Listened to
 Analyze Literature as a Mirror to a shared
Heritage of People with Diverse
Backgrounds
o Makato and the Cowrie Shell (A
Thai Folktale)
4th Quarter
 Examining Author’s Bias
 Expanding the Content of an Outline
 Composing Effective Paragraphs
 Develop a paragraph that illustrates each
text type (Narrative, Expository, and
Explanatory)
 Develop a paragraph that illustrates each
text type (Factual, Personal Recount, and text type (Factual, Personal Recount, and
Persuasive) Persuasive)