8th Grade ELA (Pre-AP & Academic) - January 9- January 13

Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!

PRE-AP

 PowerPoint of Notes - Persuasive Techniques

Membean Window Opens Monday, January 9 - Sunday, January 22
You need 75 minutes with 70% Accuracy

*Students need Animal Farm by George Orwell by Friday, January 20th. It needs to be new copy without annotations.

* Persuasive Vocab Quiz - Tuesday, January 17

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ACADEMIC 

 PowerPoint of Notes  - Persuasive Techniques


Membean Window Opens Monday, January 9 - Sunday, January 22
You need 60 minutes with 70% Accuracy

*Students need Animal Farm by George Orwell by Friday, January 20th. It needs to be new copy without annotations.

* Persuasive Vocab Quiz - Tuesday, January 17

Monday,  January 9

Pre-AP

• Check Zoos Worksheet
• Read "Should Dogs be Allowed in Public Parks"
• Annotate for Ethos,Pathos, Logos, Claim, Support, Counterarg., Opposing Arg

Homework: Ethos/Pathos/Logos Worksheet

Academic 

• "Zoos Connect Us to the Natural World" p 994-996
• Bottom half of worksheet
• Revisit "French Fries" article on page 983 and identify examples of Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Homework: Ethos/Pathos/Logos Worksheet

Tuesday, January 10

Pre-AP

• Check Ethos/Pathos/Logos Worksheet -- Collect with Zoos Analysis (Daily Grade)
• Fallacy Notes (back of packet)
• Discuss and provide Examples
• Fallacy Partner Activity (in clas)
• p986-987 - Drinking/Driving Advertisement analysis

Academic 

• Check Ethos/Pathos/Logos Worksheet -- Collect with Zoos Analysis (Daily Grade)
• Finish Persuasive Element Notes PPT w/ fill-in-blank worksheet

Wednesday, January 11 

Pre-AP

• Commercial Analysis - Persuasion in Media
• Analyzing commercials for different persuasive techniqueas
• Birmingham Letters Packet

Homework: Birmingham Letters MLK Ethos/Pathos/Logos Packet (Due Friday)

Academic 

• Fallacy Notes PPT
• Partner Fallacy Review Activity

Thursday, January 12

Pre-AP

• p1006 -1010 "Position on Dodgeball in PE" & "The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym"
• Read articles and in journal (on next 2 pages) Identify:
• Claim w/ 3 examples of support 
• 3 fallacies
• 3 persuasive techniques
• For Each LABEL the technique/support/fallacy and provide quote with page number

Academic

• p1006 -1007 "Position on Dodgeball in PE" 
• Read articles and in journal (on next 2 pages) Identify:
• Claim w/ 3 examples of support 
• 3 fallacies
• 3 persuasive techniques
• For Each LABEL the technique/support/fallacy and provide quote with page number

Friday, January 13

Pre-AP

• Discuss Birmingham Letters (grade)
• Parallelism Lesson w/ worksheet
• Homework: complete worksheet

Academic

• Commercial Analysis - Persuasion in Media
• Analyzing commercials for different persuasive techniqueas
Homework: Choose any other 4 commercials and analyze with worksheet