Grade 8 Spring — Capstone Composition, Public Speaking, Formal Style Mastery, and the K-8 Writing Portfolio
English · VOC G8 eng.g8.s.voc.tier_two_set18_capstone_audience

Acquire and use Tier-2 Set 18 capstone/audience-awareness vocabulary (CCSS L.8.6; L.8.4.a-d)

Build receptive and productive mastery of 20 Tier-2 capstone/audience-awareness words: audience, register, rhetoric, persona, exigence, kairos, ethos, pathos, logos, modulation, pace, modulate, cadence, anaphora, antithesis, peroration, exordium, decorum, sprezzatura, gravitas. Three-encounter pattern: mentor-text encounter, productive use in capstone drafting, defense in capstone speech. Most words have classical etymology — paired with the etymology routine.

Mastery threshold
85%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
Common misconceptions
  • Confuses 'exigence' (situational urgency) with 'urgency' (general pressure).
  • Misuses 'kairos' as a synonym for 'time' (kairos is OPPORTUNE/right time, not chronos/sequential time).
  • Conflates 'modulation' and 'modulate' (the noun and verb forms).

Exercise pool (5)

Diff Stem Type
1 Circle the Tier-2 Set 18 word in each sentence. (1) 'Her gravitas commanded the room.' (2) 'The exordium opened the speech.' (3) 'The... tier two recognition
3 Use 5 Tier-2 Set 18 words (your choice from 20) in 5 sentences about your capstone topic and audience. Mark each Tier-2 word with [T2] in margin. vocabulary use audience
3 Use 5 Tier-2 Set 18 classical-rhetoric words (ethos, pathos, logos, kairos, decorum, gravitas, sprezzatura, exordium, peroration —... vocab use classical set
4 Compose 1 sentence using anaphora OR antithesis for your capstone or capstone speech. Note rationale (why this device here?). anaphora or antithesis
4 Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph on rhetoric, public speaking, or audience using 7+ Tier-2 Set 18 words. Mark each Tier-2 word with [T2]. tier two paragraph