8th grade ELA students will continue to build on skills they learned in 7th grade. Students will read both fiction and nonfiction throughout the school year. Students will be given authentic purposes for writing consistently in order to gain skills.
Below you will be able to see some of the novels students will read this year!
By S.E Hinton
This novel follows the protagonist Ponyboy Curtis as he learns that maybe the upper class Socials aren't all that different from his own class, the lower-class Greasers.
By Lois Lowery
This novel follows a dystopian society and one member's discovery of the truth.
By Elie Wiesel
This is Elie Wiesel's memoir on his experience survivng the Holocaust. Students will learn about the Holocaust in Social Studies and read this memoir.