Welcome to 8th grade ELA!

Ms. Jekal

email: kjekal@ctsdnj.org

Memoir Unit: September to November 

Essential Questions: What is a memoir? What are the characteristics of a "good" memoir? 

Holocaust Unit: November to January

Focus text: Night by Elie Wiesel

Historical Fiction Unit: February to April

Focus texts:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch

Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude

The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Shakespeare Unit: April to June

Focus text: 

Romeo and Juliet