8th Grade ELA (PreAP) - February 1 - February 5

Pre-AP Annoucements

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

* Latin Roots Test over Set 3 (includes roots from set 1 and 2) - Tuesday, February 2  ----> Quizlet Link   &  Set 1 & 2 Review Link

* Persuasive Exam - Tuesday, February 9 (Persuasive Techniques, Old Major's Speech, Elements of an Argument, Fallacies, Chapter 1)

Membean Window Opens this week - 75 minute due by February 14th  (quiz grade)

Monday, February 1

* Finish Russian Notes
     *Video on Background/Context of Animal Farm
* Discuss Stalin Regime
* Start Chap 1 (read in class...active listening/annotating)

Homework: Membean & finish any annotation not completed in class

Tuesday, February 2

• Latin Roots Exam

Wednesday, February 3

• Finish Chapter 1
• Complete character chart (in packet) for chapter 1 & write summary on first page
• Old Major Speech Analysis Chart w/ partner

Thursday, February 4

• Old Major Speech Poster Project
• Req: Old Major offers 3 claims in his speech:
• 1. The life of an animal is misery and slavery.
  2. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
  3. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

Choose 1 claim to analyze. Include the following sections. Choose how you want to arrange this information on your poster. Include visuals!!!!!
**Claim(position/argument)?- PICK ONE FROM ABOVE.

**Evidence used for the particular claim?- Provide the type of evidence it is(facts, quotes, statistics, anecdotes, examples) and cite evidence from the text (either direct quotation or paraphrasing).

**Persuasive technique(s) used and logical fallacies?-

**Counterarguments?- (identify 2 for the whole speech)

** Loaded words?-

Friday, February 5

• Old Major Speech Project Continued (due Monday)