8th Grade ELA (Academic) - January 18 - January 22

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
* Rough Draft Letter to Editor - Wednesday, Jan. 27
* Latin Roots Test (over both sets) - Tuesday, February 2  --> Combined Link

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

Monday, January 18

NO SCHOOL - work on Membean

Tuesday, January 19

• Check Homework
• Persuasive Notes Quiz
• Letter to Editor (MAJOR GRADE) Rough Draft Due WEDNESDAY, Jan 27 PRINTED. This assignment also has the printed layout example.
•  ---> Example Letter
• Persuasion Map
• Read newspapers to find a topic you are passionate about. You can also view examples of letters to the editor/editorial in online and in print newspapers. Please look at these
• Homework: Rough draft of letter (Friday) & Work on Membean Minutes.

Wednesday, January 20

• HS VISITS
• Work on Letter to Editor (see Tuesday assignment)

Thursday, January 21

• Latin Roots Quiz Set 5
• Letter Discussion/Editorial Analysis

Homework: Membean & Persuasion Map

Friday, January 22

• Parallelism Lesson