Welcome to 8th grade writing! We are very excited to be working with you all. In an effort to be as sustainable as possible, we are working towards making our writing portfolios entirely digital. This means that almost all of the resources you need to be successful in the classroom can be found either in Google Classroom or here, on the 8th grade website.

Welcome to 8th Grade Writing

Hello Students and Families,

Use this site to find class resources as well as ways to help you improve your writing.

Because good writers are strong readers, reading every night for a minimum of 30 minutes is mandatory for all students. Daily reading helps writers observe, analyze, and critique how good writers write. This helps improve writing skills tremendously.

The focus for writing will be as follows:

• August - October - Writing Memoirs (generating seed ideas about small, important moments in one's life)
• November & December - Position Papers (Informational Argumentative Writing)
• January & February - Literary Essays/ Thematic projects (Literary Argumentative Writing)
• March & April - Writing for High Stakes Exam, Increasing Reading Stamina
• May - Investigative Journalism (Informational/ Narrative Writing through Photojournalism)
• June - Resiliency Cafe (Telling our Truth Through Free writing, Poetry, and Art)

Contact Information

Ms. Lauren- lauren.hamernick@bugsbrooklyn.org

Mr. Linskey- aaron.linskey@bugsbrooklyn.org

Upcoming Assessments

October 2-3: Baseline Assessments

October 18: Vocab Quiz - Definitions are linked in Google Classroom.

October 25: Final Draft of Memoir Due

November 13-15: Unit 2 Pre-Assessment

December 20th: Position Paper due at 11:59pm

2020

January 7-8: MIDLINE TESTING

Feb 10-13: Authors craft quiz

Homework/Important Due Dates

Homework #1- September 13th

Homework #2- September 20th

Homework #3- September 27th

NO HOMEWORK THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 2nd- Baseline testing

Homework #4- October 11th

October 16-19- Study for Vocab Quiz on Friday!

October 21-24- Students who want to retake their Vocab quiz are able to come up during their lunch period. Please note* the last day for this is Thursday, the 24th.

Homework #5- October 25th

Homework #6- November 1st

Homework #7 (continuation of Urban Legend classwork)- November 8th

Week of November 11: No homework this week

Homework #8: NewsELA due 11/22

Week of 11/25- "Full Class Grading due" on December 6th. This can be found on Google Classroom.

12/5- "Shoot Out" argumentative essay is due.

12/19- Position Paper is due!

12/13: First 3 paragraphs of Position Paper is due at 11:59 p.m!

1/13: Homework #10 is due on Friday at 11:59 p.m!

1/31: Homework #11 is due at 11:59 p.m!

2/3: Thematic Essay is due!

2/7:Study for upcoming quiz

2/14: Homework #12 is due at 11:59 pm!

3/2: Homework #13 is due on Friday! Its KINDNESS month!

Argument writing checklist

Narrative writing rubric