'8th Grade (ADV) Language Arts' Category
8th Grade Honors LA
Create a “Pirates Today” Powerpoint
Skull and crossbones buccaneers have resurfaced with “Terminator”-style tactics, shining a spotlight on an age-old crime that some experts warn could inspire terrorists.
Unlike the pirates of yore, today’s bandits of the sea use computers and satellite technology to track their prey. Then, under the cover of darkness, they sneak up alongside […]8th Grade Honors LA
We are starting a unit on the novel Treasure Island! Arrrrr, it do be hard mateys but it be worth it all in the end. Okay, seriously, this is a good book and we will learn a lot about the time period as well as the history of pirates and character portrayal in novels. Good […]
I, Juan de Pareja
Here is the link to the webquest in activity we are working on. We will begin reading the book tomorrow (1.29.08)
Mrs. L
Story Time
Just a reminder that we will be picking up our short stories on Wednesday. We will review the Five Facts of Fiction and I will post some handouts on here to help you along the way! This will be a two week project and your stories will be due on January 18, 2008 […]
Extra Credit!!
Sorry this was not up yesterday as intended, but with that last day and all - things were hectic!
I am offering two forms of extra credit - one is for writing (language arts), the other for reading.
1. For reading, if you read over break and write one dialectical journal (if you forgot the format […]Short Stories!!!!
Make sure to come back in January with your what ifs sheet ready to go!! We will be working on our short stories then!!!!!
Only 3 Days!!!
With only three days this week - we will be wrapping up on projects and not really beginning anything new. I will be posting an extra credit assignment on here if anyone in interested. It will post on Wednesday and will be due the day we come back from break!
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What is Poetry?
What is Poetry?
A poem may appear to mean very different things
to different readers, and all of these meanings
may be different from what the author thought he
meant. For instance, the author may have been
writing some peculiar personal […]Quatrain Worksheet
Here is the worksheet we did in class.
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HEY!! Does anybody have a quarter? What’s a quarter have to do with this type of poetry? Well, a quarter is 1/4 of a dollar. The word quatrain comes from Latin and French words meaning “four.” See the connection? The quatrain is […]