8th Grade Writing

8th Grade Language Arts Course Syllabus

Language Arts

• Curriculum Units of Study

  • DLI (Daily Language Instruction) daily/weekly

  • Process Writing: Personal Narratives, Descriptive Writing, Figurative Language, Poetry, Compare/Contrast, Report/Essays, Summary Writing

  • Portfolio Writing

• Technology used for Writing

  • Nearpod will be used in the classroom and student-paced in the remote learning environment.  

  • Nearpod- Uses a slide show (Google Slides or PowerPoint) to provide instruction, but videos and student activities are embedded.  

Late Work Policy - Late work will be accepted for half credit up to one week after the due date. After one week, the assignment will receive a score of 0.

Campus Student/Campus Parent - Be sure to create a Parent Portal account to have access to all of your student’s information (grades, attendance, lunch count, etc.)

Grades - Grades are averaged and we believe that all aspects of a student’s educational practice are of equal importance so we do not weigh grades. Please note any missing assignment will receive a score of zero (0 %).

• Grade Scale:

  • A 100-90%

  • B 89-80%

  • C 79-70%

  • D 69-60%

  • F 59-0%

Grammar, Mechanics, and Usage

• Daily Language Instruction (DLI)

  • We are completing daily warm up assignments working on capitalization and punctuation

Reading/Writing

• We are reading The Outsiders as a class and completing book reports/summaries for each chapter.

• Through this book we are exploring the elements of plot and learning how to write quality summaries.

• The students are learning how to develop a story from start to finish including:  Character Development, Setting, and Conflict/Resolution techniques.