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8th

-Vizzle-Plot of a Story

-Vizzle-Individual IEP Goals

-Vizzle- Figurative Language

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

TEKS 6.6 A Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Drama-Analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolutions, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved.

TEKS 6.8.A Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language

Explain how authors create meaning through stylistic elements and figurative language emphasizing the use of personification, hyperbole, and refrains

7.8.A Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language

Determine the figurative meaning of phrases and analyze how an author’s use of language creates imagery, appeals to the senses, and suggests mood

8.8.A Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language

Explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text

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7^th

8th

Vizzle- Memoirs

Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

Vizzle-Verb Perfect Tenses-Multi Activity

-Vizzle-Perfect Verb Tenses

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

Vizzle-Verb Perfect Tenses-Multi Activity

-Vizzle-Perfect Verb Tenses

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

TEKS:5.17A Writing: Write a personal narrative that conveys thoughts and feeling about an experience.

6.16 A Write a personal narrative that has a clearly defined focus and communicates the importance of or reasons for actions and or consequences.

6.7A Identify the literary language and devices used in memoirs and personal narratives and compare their characteristics with those of an autobiography.

TEKS: 7.19 A.i Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions Verbs (perfect and progressive tenses) and participles

8.19 A.i Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions Verbs (perfect and progressive tenses) and participles;

Vizzle-Verb Perfect Tenses-Multi Activity

-Vizzle-Perfect Verb Tenses

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

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7^th

8th

-Vizzle – What is Culture?

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

-Vizzle-San Antonio Landmarks

-Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

- Vizzle- Westward Expansion

- Vizzle- Individual IEP Goals

TEKS: 6.13 A Culture- Identify and describe common traits that define cultures and culture regions.

6.13D Culture- Identify and explain examples between and among cultures

TEKS 7.8B Geography-Locate and compare places of importance in Texas in terms of physical and human characteristics such as major cities, waterways, natural and historic landmarks, political and cultural regions, and local points of interests

TEKS 5.4C History

Identify reasons people moved west

 5.4D History-Identify significant events and concepts associated with U.S. territorial expansion, including the Louisiana Purchase, the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny

8.1A History-Identify the major eras in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, creation and ratification of the Constitution, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects

 8.1B History-Explain the significance of the following dates: 1607, founding of Jamestown; 1620, arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact; 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence; 1787, writing of the U.S. Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; and 1861-1865, Civil War

8.6B History-Analyze the westward growth of the nation including the Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny nation, including the Louisiana Purchase and Ma Destiny

-Vizzle-Community Jobs

TEKS 2.11C-Government

Describe how governments tax citizens to pay for services

K.7A Economics

Identify jobs in the home, school, and community K.9A Government

Identify authority figures in the home, school, and community