Language Arts 8
Google Classroom
Big Concepts this Year
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Periods 3 & 5
SEMESTER ONE.
Beginning-of-year stuff: Getting-to-know-you activities, iReady reading assessment, advertising techniques
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson: Persuasive paragraph and poetry writing
Pledge of Allegiance persuasive paragraph
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang: Critical thinking activities
SEMESTER TWO.
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness: Compare/contrast essay
Nonfiction unit: Personal narrative
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds: Reading strategies
Monster by Walter Dean Myers: Problem/Solution essay
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli: Theme essay
Jerry Spinelli
Jason Reynolds
Gene Luen Yang
Patrick Ness
Jacqueline Woodson
Daily/Weekly Routines
Daily warm-ups: This will include grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, parts of speech, and vocabulary. These will be a work habits grade, due every Friday.
Class novels: Each novel will take us four to six weeks to complete. This cycle will include reading the book, completing smaller assignments along the way, and then ending with a final essay or project. In language arts, essays and projects are our final exams for each novel.
