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    Grade 8 English Language Week 12 Lesson 1

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    - The document is a lesson plan from the Ministry of Education for an 8th grade English class that focuses on reading and interpreting a passage about insects. - The passage describes the distinguishing characteristics of insects such as their three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae, one or two pairs of wings, and that their bodies are divided into heads, thoraxes, and abdomens. - It also notes that while young insects like caterpillars and maggots look different than their parents, they develop wings and harder exoskeletons as they mature into insects like beetles and wasps.

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    - The document is a lesson plan from the Ministry of Education for an 8th grade English class that focuses on reading and interpreting a passage about insects. - The passage describes the distinguishing characteristics of insects such as their three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae, one or two pairs of wings, and that their bodies are divided into heads, thoraxes, and abdomens. - It also notes that while young insects like caterpillars and maggots look different than their parents, they develop wings and harder exoskeletons as they mature into insects like beetles and wasps.

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    MINISTRYOF EDUCATION

    SECONDARY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME


    SEPTEMBER 2020
    WEEK TWELVE: Lesson One
    SUBJECT: English language
    GRADE: Eight
    TOPIC: Comprehension
    SUB-TOPIC: Reading and interpreting passage
    OBJECTIVES: For students to:
    -read accurately and fluently
    -interpreting the passage
    -answer questions correctly
    -understand and appreciate the writer’s craft
    Comprehension Passage: Insects
    Insects are variously formed, but as a rule the mature ones have three and only three pairs of
    legs, one pair of feelers, one pair of large eyes, and one or two pairs of wings. The body is
    divided into a head, thorax and abdomen. The head bears the eyes, feelers and mouth, the thorax
    bears the legs and wings, and the abdomen is made up of a number of segments. The presence of
    wings at once decides whether or not it is an insect, for, aside from bats and birds, insects alone
    have true wings. These are the distinguishing characters of the full-grown insect, but, like birds,
    they hatch from eggs and while young do not always look like their parents. When young they
    may take on various shapes as caterpillars, borers, maggots, grubs, hoppers, and the like. Young
    insects are often difficult to distinguish from true worms, centipedes, snails, and such forms, but
    after one has collected and reared some of the young and watched them pass through the
    different stages and emerge with wings they are much more easily recognized. Young insects as
    a rule are soft like caterpillars and maggots, while the old ones usually have a hard body wall,
    similar to the beetles and wasps. The wings are usually thin and transparent though in some cases
    they are leathery or hard as in case of beetles or covered with scales as in the butterflies. The
    three pairs of legs are jointed and used for running, climbing, jumping, swimming, digging or
    grasping. The feelers or antennae are usually threadlike, clubbed, or resemble a feather and
    extend forward or sidewise from the head. The large eyes are compound, being made up of many
    great small units which, when magnified, resemble honey-comb. In some cases, two or three
    small bead-like eyes may be present besides the two large eyes. The mouth parts of insects may
    be formed for chewing, as in the grasshopper, or for sucking up liquids, as in the mosquito. The
    mouth of an insect is built on an entirely different plan from our own. Chewing insects have an
    upper and lower lip and between these there are two pairs of grinding jaws. These jaws are
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    hinged at the side of the face and when chewing they come together from either side so as to
    meet in the middle of the mouth. They therefore work sidewise rather than up and down. The
    mouth parts of the sucking insects are drawn out to form a sucking tube or proboscis as in case of
    the butterfly or mosquito. The internal organs of insects are similar to those of other animals. The
    digestive tube consists of esophagus, gizzard, or stomach, and intestines. The nervous system is
    well developed as shown by the extreme sensitiveness of insects to touch. The brain is
    comparatively small except in the bees and ants. The circulatory system consists simply of a long
    tube heart, the blood vessels being absent. In this way the internal organs of the insect are simply
    bathed in the blood. The system of respiration is most complicated. The air is taken in through
    pores usually along the side of the body and is then carried through fine tracheal tubes to all parts
    of the body. You cannot drown an insect by putting its head under water, since it does not
    breathe through its mouth. The muscular system is similar to that of other animals which have
    the skeleton on the outside.

    Questions
    1. What are the parts of an insect’s body?
    2. What do insects have in common with birds?
    3. What are young insects often mistaken for? Why?
    4. How do young and mature insects differ?
    5. Describe compound eyes.
    6. Describe generally how insects’ mouths differ from our own.
    7. How do the internal organs of insects compare to those of other animals?
    8. Why can’t you drown an insect by putting its head under water?

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