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NOTE THAT WEEK ONE IS THE WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 8/24/2020. EACH SUCCESSIVE WEEK IS IDENTIFIED BY THE DATE FOR THE MONDAY OF THAT THE SCHOOL WEEK.
All 8th Grade ELA classwork and assignments, both LITERATURE and GRAMMAR , are listed on this "Schedule of the Week-8" sub-page. For the full text and instructions of a specific assignment, GO TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM, Literature or Grammar as appropriate, and click on the assignment.
WEEK SEVEN: 10/5/2020
Mon: PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES - Students work on Christmas Carol return Stave FIVE test per class discussion 10/2
Tues: Literature, The Listeners Quatrain Reading; Grammar, Verbs - INDIRECT OBJECTS (Transitive Action Verbs) WC
Wed: Literature, The Listeners Quatrain Reading and analysis; Grammar, Verbs - Richard Burton reading the greatest poem in the English language about the most important verb (to be) LINKING VERBS
Thurs: 8th Grade are on all-day RETREAT
Fri: Literature, The Listeners Quatrain Reading; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee - start reviewing the book
WEEK EIGHT: 10/12/2020
Mon: Grammar, Verbs - LINKING VERBS
Tues: Literature, The Listeners Quatrain Reading by class, discuss learning by heart; TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee start reading Ch 1 and Historical Background - US Race Relations Timeline 1776 -1865-1890s-1965 (Civil Rights): Grammar Verbs Tenses - WC Past & Present Tenses and how other tenses are made using HELPING VERBS - main verbs with helping verbs to form verb phrases
Wed: Grammar Verbs Tenses - main verbs with helping verbs to form verb phrases:
Thurs: Grammar Verbs Tenses - main verbs with helping verbs to form verb phrases: PROGRESSIVE FORMS; Literature TKM reading Ch 1, discuss part ONE generally - finish Ch1
Fri: Literature TKM Race Relations Timeline - students write their own distinguishing Slavery and Segregation - what era of race relations are we in now?
WEEK NINE: 10/19/2020
Mon: Listeners Quatrain class reads: review poem meaning and personnel; TKM class read - Malevolent Phantom, Nothing to Fear but Fear itself FDR (Ch1) and TKM Ch 2 : Grammar PROGRESSIVE FORMS (tenses) WC p413 and p414 Ex 13
Tues: Grammar, review Helping Verbs and Main Verbs and Verb Phrase - analyze verbs in sentences - verb phrase, helping and main; Progressives and Perfect Tenses - review PERFECT TENSES
Wed: 8th Grade Activity Day
Thurs: Grammar - review PERFECT TENSES
Fri:
WEEK ONE: 8/24/2020
Mon: Parts of Speech re-cap; Grammar Writer's Choice (WC) Textbook Unit 8, Subjects, Predicates, Sentences: WC Lesson 8.1 Kinds of Sentences, Ex 1 & Ex 2 students do VERBALLY in class. Literature - Class review/discussion of summer reading A Christmas Carol (ACC)
Tues: HOW TO CREATE GOOGLE DOC AND ATTACH/SUBMIT review; Sentences and Fragments WCp299 L8.2 - start; Review students' Book Extracts from last week;
Wed: Sentences and Fragments L8.2 - review definitions subject, predicate and sentence (has subject & predicate and expresses complete thought); Literature - Music review
Thurs: Grammar WC L8.3 Subjects and Predicates - review textbook and start exercises 5 & 6 WC in class verbally; more time needed;"
Fri: Grammar WC L8.4 Finding Subjects- review textbook, supplemented by whiteboard examples, all sentences in 2 parts subject-part and predicate-part, default rule about placement; Finding Subject in different kinds of sentences
WEEK TWO: 8/31/2020
Mon: Grammar WC Unit 8 - review STRUCTURES of sentences (Simple, Compound) and sentence errors (fragments, run-ons), WC p370 Ex 11 and Ex 12 (verbally in class); Review answers for assignment from prior week WC p368 Ex 10
Tues: Grammar, Compound Subjects and subject-verb agreement, rule; review difference between compound subjects/predicates and compound sentences;
Wed: Literature, A Christmas Carol class read of Stave TWO Spirit of Christmas Past - perspective and appearance of spirit
Thurs: Grammar - review, different kinds of Sentences (x4), different sentence structures (simple, compound, complex and the common mistakes RUN-ONs and FRAGMENTS) - whiteboard diagrams
Fri: ZOOM MEETING Student Council Elections (9:00) Grammar Subjects, Predicates & Sentences practice Grammar Mastery Test
WEEK THREE: 9/7/2020
Mon: HOLIDAY
Tues: Grammar Subjects, Predicates & Sentences Grammar Mastery Test: Literature A Christmas Carol Stave THREE, Ghost of Christmas Present - Stave Notes
Wed: Grammar NOUNS WC p381-383 Kinds of Noun and Compound Nouns, Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4 verbally in class; Literature A Christmas Carol Stave THREE class read
Thurs: Grammar review RAMNP and use of APOSTROPHE, possessives, plural and contractions WC p386-388 Nouns - POSSESSIVES, plurals and contractions assignment
Fri: STAR TEST Reading; Literature - A Christmas Carol Staves ONE and TWO Test (postpone Stave TWO test)
WEEK FOUR: 9/14/2020
Mon: STAR TEST Reading re-takes; Literature The Listeners (Poetry) review and initial notes - Poem Handout via Google Stream, to be printed and annotated
Tues: Literature - A Christmas Carol Stave THREE, review preparation of chapter notes; The Listeners - further review and recitation by students, plus notes on figures of speech - ALLITERATION and ENJAMBMENT (students take notes from 'meet' chat); Grammar brief review of Collective Nouns
Wed: Grammar Collective Nouns WC p389 and Appositives WC p391 - review entire unit, Grammar Pre-test; Literature - A Christmas Carol Staves ONE and TWO Tests, review graded tests
Thurs: Literature - A Christmas Carol Staves ONE and TWO Tests return and discuss - students confirm on assignment comment thread that corrections/ written on test understood ; Literary biographies - Charles Dickens and Walter de la Mare;
Fri: Grammar Appositives WC p391 review and WC p392 Ex 11; Literature Stave THREE Test
WEEK FIVE: 9/21/2020
Mon: Grammar, NOUNS Pre-test in class review and correct errors; Literature, Christmas Carol continue class read of Stave FOUR - Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Notes in meet "chat" re Old Joe, a criminal FENCE; (poetry - students recite first 4 lines -Quatrain- of The Listeners), review literary terms
Tues: Grammar NOUNS Mastery Test; Literature - review Stave THREE Test, continue recitations of The Listeners, review students literary biographies of Dickens and De La Mare; class read Christmas Carol Stave FOUR
Wed: MIDDLE SCHOOL (&4/5) ACTIVITY DAY ON CAMPUS (weather/air quality permitting) Cancelled: The Listeners review and check learning of first quatrain; learn second quatrain; Christmas Carol - continue class read of Stave FOUR (finish)
Thurs: Grammar - review sentence diagraming subjects, predicates, nouns and verbs: Literature - continue review of The Listeners and also check notes on Literary Terms (planners)
Fri: Literature - Christmas Carol - continue class read of Stave FIVE and review The Listeners literary terms
WEEK SIX: 9/28/2020
Mon: Literature - Christmas Carol return Stave THREE tests (correction re multiple choice Q and review, class read Stave FIVE and finish; The Listeners - class read in quatrains and students have HARD COPY of poem - discuss: Grammar VERBS
Tues: The Listeners - class read in quatrains; review students' Literary biographies; Christmas Carol chapter notes: Grammar VERBS - verb classification diagram on classroom stream; action verbs Transitive/Intransitive and indirect objects
Wed: MIDDLE SCHOOL (&4/5) ACTIVITY DAY ON CAMPUS (weather/air quality permitting - BEING RE-ARRANGED 9/28) The Listeners - class read in quatrains - students provide explanations of quatrains: Grammar VERBS, action verbs Transitive - indirect objects sentence word order, SENTENCE DIAGRAMING
Thurs: Literature, The Listeners - class read in quatrains - students provide verbal explanations of quatrains (recorded full class (10/1) for later review and use in notes/future poetry assignments)
Fri: Literature, class assignment - 10/1 Video review and "9 things I did not know about The Listeners"; A Christmas Carol, students do Stave FIVE test in class