8th Grade ELA (Academic) - January 11 - January 15

Academic Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!
*Students need Animal Farm by George Orwell by Friday, January 15th. It needs to be new copy without annotations.

* Persuasive Vocab Quiz - Tuesday, January 19
* Latin Roots Set 5 Quiz - Thursday, Jan. 21  ----> Quizlet Link
* Latin Roots  Set 6 quiz - Tuesday, Jan. 26 ----> Quizlet Link
* Latin Roots Test (over both sets) - Tuesday, February 2  --> Combined Link

*MEMBEAN STARTS this week (ends Sunday, January 24th) - 60 minutes due

Monday, January 11

• Check Ethos, Pathos, Logos Worksheet (graded)
• Read p 985 & discuss

Homework: Read p 986 "Should the Driving Age Be Raised to 18?" and complete questions 1-4 and read p 987 and complete questions 1-3 on page 15 of your journal

Tuesday, January 12

• Check Homework
• Fallacy Notes/Rhetoric Notes

Homework - On pages 16-17 of your journal:
 Read 2 articles on pages 1006-1010 "Position on Dodgeball in Physical Education" & "The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym"
1) Identify the claim and 2 examples of support for each article (need page number and quotes for each example of support)
2) Identify a total of 4 (2 from each article) of fallacies w/ page numbers and quotes
3) Identify a total of 4 (2 from each article) of persuasive techniques used w/ page numbers and quotes

Wednesday, January 13

• Check homework
• Partner activity over fallacies (identification)
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Thursday, January 14

• Parallelism Lesson
• Commercial Analysis - Persuasion in Media

Homework: Analyze 2 commercials for persuasion used (worksheet)

Friday, January 15

• Persuasion in the Media Poster (in class)
• Due Tuesday