8th Grade ELA (PreAP) - January 11 - January15

Pre-AP 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 Test over Set 3 - Tuesday, February 2  ----> Quizlet Link

*MEMBEAN STARTS this week (ends Sunday, January 24th) - 75 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
• Fallacy Identification Activity

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 3 examples of support for each article (need page number and quotes for each example of support)
2) Identify 3 examples of fallacies w/ page numbers and quotes
3) Identify  3 examples of persuasive techniques used w/ page numbers and quotes

Wednesday, January 13

• Check homework
• Commercial Analysis - Persuasion in Media

Homework: Analyze 3 commercials for persuasion used (worksheet)

Thursday, January 14

• Parallelism Activity
• Homework: Complete back of worksheet

Friday, January 15

• Pro/Con Discussion
• Read “Zoos: Myth and Reality” p 990 – 993 and “Zoos Connect Us to the Natural World” p 994-996.
•  Complete the questions on page 997 #1-6.  Due Monday
• Work on Membean