Welcome to 8th grade Language Arts! I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with your child this year. My notes below list the topics to be covered each week and any tests that will be given that week. Other information, such as progress reports, will be there also. My conference period is from 2:00-3:10. Please call or email any day that you would like. The contact information is at the bottom of the parent letter that I sent home with your child.
WEEK OF AUGUST 25-29:
Topics for this week are as follows: learning rules/procedures, DOL introduction, SAT introduction, grammar introduction, beginning the study of morphemes, and reading a short story. There will be no tests this week for regular students. Advanced students will have the objective test over their summer reading on Thursday and write the essay on Friday.
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 1-5:
Topics for this week will be as follows: DOL, SAT(finish 1-10), morphemes(adding 4 more, for a total of 8), and completing work on the short story for last week. There will be a quiz on the story on Thursday and a both a morpheme and a plot note quiz on Friday.
Advanced classes: These students will be introduced to the Word Wiz vocabulary program (morpheme based) and begin studying lessons 1-3. Other than that, there topics will be the same as the regular classes above. They will have a quiz on the short story on Thursday and a plot note quiz Friday.
NOTE: ALL students should be taking home their SAT folder home each night to study. The first SAT test in Tuesday, Sept.9. All students should be studying their morphemes at home also.
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