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Analyzing Authors Purpose Argumentative Text  icon
Analyzing Author’s Purpose: Argumentative Text

Resource ID: TXLSR14.045
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a pre-Civil War speech and write author’s purpose statements using the argumentative verbs explain, urge, convince, and encourage.

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PES of the West!

Resource ID: TXLSR14.009
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

: Students will analyze primary sources, images, and speeches to form opinions about causal relationships and compare and contrast those opinions with historical documents.

Students working

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Voices from the Trail of Tears

Resource ID: TXLSR13.046
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

In this lesson, students will learn about the implementation of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears. Students will engage with primary and secondary sources to build a comprehensive understanding of the events.

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Newton's Second Law

Resource ID: TXLSR13.047
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will work in partners to investigate Newton’s second law by testing a series of experiments with varying conditions.

 

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How Newton's Laws Apply Every Day

Resource ID: TXLSR11.023A
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students collaboratively determine how the characteristics of a real-world job correlate with each of Newton’s Laws and why that is relevant to their own lives.

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Rise Over Run! Let’s Have Fun!

Resource ID: TXLSR10.019
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Math

Students will collaboratively practice identifying and graphing slope and y-intercept.

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American Progress

Resource ID: TXLSR4.044
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

Students will use prior knowledge to interpret and infer from the optic “American Progress”. Students will link the images and information to the time period and communicate effectively about those conclusions.

 

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“Dude, Our Rules Came from These Old Documents?!”

Resource ID: TXLS260
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

As students rotate through learning stations, they analyze the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, and the English Bill of Rights. Students interpret the historical documents and draw conclusions as to how these docuemnts have influenced the U.S. system of government. 

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Escribir una carta persuasiva

Resource ID: TXLSR4.012
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

This lesson was intended to be delivered in a face-to-face classroom environment.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, this lesson has been modified from its original design to be executed in a virtual setting.

This virtual lesson was designed to prepare students to communicate familiar topics in the presentational writing mode in the target language.  Students will act as a college advisor and respond to a prospective student’s email regarding housing options.  Students will then peer evaluate each other’s writing and provide meaningful feedback using a rubric.

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Paired Passages with a Purpose

Resource ID: TXLSR11.008
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will make inferences about the author’s purpose after reading paired passages involving the same subject.

 

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Poetry With Purpose

Resource ID: TXLSR11.003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students collaborate in small groups to discuss their peers’ poetry and assess the poetry according to the student-created rubric. The rubric assesses students’ ability to make meaningful connections to the poetic devices in their poetry. Through collaboration, they are building a culture of receptiveness among their peers.

 

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Evaluating Inferences

Resource ID: TXLSR1.003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will evaluate a set of inferences to determine if they are valid or invalid and use text evidence to support their stance. The lesson incorporates best practices for English learners (ELs) and at-risk students such as the use of graphic organizers, anchor charts, and cooperative learning.  

 

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King Jackson?

Resource ID: TXLSR11.011
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

Students will be able to apply their knowledge of the principles of the U.S. Constitution in relation to the events and issues of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency, explain if the principles were demonstrated or violated, and justify their reasoning.

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Convergent Plate Boundaries

Resource ID: TXLS135
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will design and test models that will identify crustal features formed by convergent plate boundaries.

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Full Speed Ahead

Resource ID: TXLS006
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Science

Students will use hover pucks to measure speed over a distance of six meters. Once speed has been calculated, students will determine velocity using the same data. Finally, students will be able to label all points of acceleration.

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The War of 1812

Resource ID: TXLR08.003
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

Students will be involved in a simulation of the War of 1812 on a map, its causes, events, and effects.

 

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Why Would They Say That?

Resource ID: TXLSR14.042
Grade Range: 8
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will analyze multiple texts on the same topic to identify the text structures used and find each author’s purpose.

Teacher compares author's purpose in text to the purposes of eating utensils.

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Balancing Act

Resource ID: TXLSR14.010
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Math

Given a prompt, students will solve a multi-step equation using concrete and/or pictorial models.

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Which One Doesn't Belong? Proportional vs Non-Proportional Relationships

Resource ID: TXLSR14.048
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Math

Students will make connections as they examine proportional and non-proportional relationships represented in functions including tables, equations, graphs, and verbal descriptions and think critically to determine which one does not belong in a set and why.

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Constitutional Grievances and Modern Day Solutions

Resource ID: TXLS262
Grade Range: 8
Subject: Social Studies

Students will correlate current events to constitutional grievances and create modern solutions.

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