Standard W.MCC.3

W.MCC.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

Grade(s): 8

Year: 2015

Episode 1: ELA Short Answer Worksheet | Conversations with Crescent

Document

This worksheet accompanies the Conversations with Crescent episode, Conversations on Hair, History, and Popular Culture. Part 1 includes a series of foundational comprehension questions. Part 2...

Episode 1: Essay Prompts | Conversations with Crescent

Document

This resource accompanies the Conversations with Crescent episode, Conversations on Hair, History, and Popular Culture and includes a series of writing prompts submitted. This learning activity was...

“The Past is Present” or “Respective Perspectives”

Lesson

Students will examine multiple perspectives of different groups of people on the notion of freedom during the American Revolution. The class forms into 5 groups: Patriots, Loyalists/British, Enslaved...

Professional Careers in Theater [Part 1: Management, Directing, Planning]

Lesson

Within this unit, students will see excellent PBS interviews with theatre professionals employed in these positions: Senior Vice President of Theatre Operations, Theatre Director, Playwright, Producer...

Diary of a Grain of Rice OR an Indigo Plant

Lesson

The mid-1700s saw the rise of plantations across the South and the move from sustenance to cash crops saw a greater dependence on slave labor. The labor-intensive, back-breaking work of planting and...

Restoring the Union

Lesson

The students will be able to create either a free verse poem or journal entry as if they were a freed man during the Civil War Reconstruction Period in order to explain life in SC based on political...