ELAR
This Week:
We finished The Red Badge of Courage.
Next Week:
Our poem recitation will be on Wednesday.
We will take our quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird Friday.
Books we will read this year:
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Christmas Carol
Lord of the Flies
Merchant of Venice
Diary of Anne Frank
Writing Rhetoric is our grammar/writing curriculum for eighth grade. It prepares our students to write complete essays. This year we will learn how to write commonplace essays, which are persuasive essays that attack and defend certain aspects of human nature.
History
This Week:
We specifically talked about the Enlightenment influences in the Declaration of Independence. We also talked about the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Next Week: We will finally start talking about the Revolutionary War