This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Our Teacher Guides are meant to support the use of our online course and unit content. Please use these to accompany the use of our content and for ideas to support struggling learners, those needing extension and for additional resources.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade Social Studies course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Students will identify the differences between passive and active verb forms. Students will be given the opportunity to practice recognizing these verbs. Students will be able to identify these types of verbs within their own writings, and begin to wrtie in a more complete active voice than a possive one or a mistures of both.

Students will complete a close reading of Ted Kooser’s poem, Abandoned Farmhouse.  Students will use their knowledge about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl to determine the setting and characters in the poem. After analyzing the author’s style, use of figurative language, and structure of the poem, students will write an ORIGINAL POEM in the spirit of Abandoned Farmhouse by using the same syntax.  Using the original poem and a template as a guide, students will compose a poem that reveals who they are through the voice of important objects in their homes.

This self-study guide from the University of Washington offers well organized resources on the topic of Indian education in the United States from the late 19th- early 20th centuries. The collection provides an overview, followed by detailed readings and images. Sections of the self-study: Part 1: Indian Boarding School Movement Part 2: Mission Schools Part 3: Boarding Schools Part 4: A Typical Daily Schedule Part 5: Negatives and Positives Part 6: Sample Daily Routine

Students will understand common Greek and Latin roots through participating in this engaging and interactive vocabulary game. Students will gain knowledge about word origins, and this knowledge and understanding will reinforce the connections among related words.

A curriculum for teaching news literacy. Meets the learning domains listed under the Digital Learning Standards category "Knowledge Constructor."

This google slide provides teachers and students with a chunking of the new Civic Literacy standards by unit and section. Students can change the color of each standard as they master it.This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

The Family Letters are intended to be sent home at the beginning and middle of Cluster 2. They explain big ideas of the cluster using family-friendly language. Families can also find tips for working with their children at home, digital games, videos, and books. This file contains both English and Spanish versions of the Cluster 2 Family Letters.

This pacing guide is the collaborative work of math teachers, coaches, and curriculum leaders from 38 NC public school districts. The teams worked through two face-to-face meetings and digitally to compile the information presented. NC Math 1, 2, and 3 standards were used to draft possible units of study for these courses. This is a first draft living document. Teams plan to meet throughout the year to continually tweak, update and refine these guides. Updates will be posted as available to this google document.

Students will use conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas, parentheses, dashes,ellpsis, semicolons, quotations, apostrophes) in student written sentences.

This interactive site shows how dots and tenuto ties change rhythmic values in standard time signatures. Audio examples clarify these points.

This is an ELA lesson planning template. It follows a gradual release framework. It was adapted from the ELA lesson plan template provided by NCDPI via the VIK.

This aligns well with our class; this has some good Powerpoints, assignments, and visuals;

Students will explore the Articles of Confederation and the Articles' influence in revising the Constitution of 1787. Students will experience the sentiments of Federalists and Anti Federalists by participating in a partner debate as either North Carolina Federalist James Iredell or Anti Federalist Willie Jones.

This interactive lesson allows students the opportunity to fill in the blanks of a story with words created through a virtual flip of a chip. Students will use chips as tools for showing different affixes and roots that can be joined together to create words. The created words are inserted in a paragraph according to context clues. Students can work in pairs to create their own set of chips and corresponding paragraph. Students then exchange their packets to see whether the context clues are stong enough to enable classmates to fill in the blanks correctly.

The purpose of this roadmap is to align Ready Math to the NC Math Clusters and their related content standards.  It can be used as part of a data notebook for students to color in as they master each standard / lesson.  The roadmap is intended to generalize any learning playlists developed to go along with the standards. An example of the learning playlist for 3.NC.OA.1 has been uploaded to GoOpenNC.This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

A learning road map is a great way for students and teachers to keep track of standards they have mastered.  This road map is for grade 2 math cluster 2.  It can be printed and placed in a data notebook.  Students would then color in the circle to indicate their level of proficiency.  It could also be used digitally where students would fill in the circle with color.  Road Maps help students take ownership of their learning and help guide instruction for teachers.  This resource was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant