8th Grade ELA (Pre-AP & Academic) - August 21-September 9

Announcements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!

PRE-AP

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ACADEMIC

Monday, August 21

• ·       EAGLE CAMP
• ·       Homework  "Personality Trait" card due Friday.

Tuesday, August 22

• Syllabus & Expectations
• ·       Assignment:  Personality Trait index card.  Noun&Adjective describing you, part of speech, 1 Visual representation per side, 1 Sentence describing your trait per side, First and Last name Bring Comp Journal and two glue sticks by Friday

• Introduction Letter example 

Homework

• "Personality Trait Card"  Due Friday

Wednesday, August 23

• Introduction Letter example and assignment sheet
• Intro. Letter  - Pre-write activity
• Time to start rough draft (due Monday)

Homework

•     Typed Rough Draft of LETTER of ME to Ms. Stark DUE Monday.
•  12 point font/ Times New Roman/Double Spaced/1" margins

• "Personality Trait Card"  Due Friday

Thursday, August 24 

•   Pre Unit Assessment - Literary Terms
• Check Pre-Assessment
• Academic Only - Work on Letter of Me and Trait Card 
• PRE-AP ONLY - Read "Cutting of My Long Hair" and 1) write 7-9 sentence summary 2) write 3 surface level (information based) questions and write 2 higher level thinking open-ended (short answer) questions
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Homework

• ·       Typed Final Draft Due Tuesday, August 28th
•  12 point font/ Times New Roman/Double Spaced/1" margins

Friday, August 25 - September 9

• NO SCHOOL - Hurricane Harvey