English Language Arts 8th Grade Assignments
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- 2020-2021 School Year
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- 8th Grade
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8th Grade ELA
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Opinion Essay Body Paragraph #3 and Conclusion
Please complete body paragraph #3 and your conclusion (3 sentences) by class on Thursday!
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Opinion Essay Body Paragraph
Opinion Essay Body Paragraph
Have one more opinion essay body paragraph completed by Monday!
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Opinion Essay Research
Opinion Essay Research
Please have completed gathering 3 pieces of evidence to support your 3 reasons that you will address in your opinion essay. See your brainstorming/research sheet passed out today during ELA!
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Finished Bibliography, Works Cited page and In-text Citation
Finish Bibliography, Works Cited page and In-text Citation
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Finish Rough Draft of Citizen Essay
Please come to class on Thursday with a completed rough draft of your "How to be an Active and Engaged Citizen" essay!
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Finish Intro and Body Paragraph #1 for Rough Draft
Finish Intro and Body Paragraph #1 for Rough Draft.
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Website Research Continued
For your last website to research, please find a site that explains The Church's teaching on being an active and engaged citizen. Please following the same format as listed in your website research document for this last site to add!
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Website Research
Please complete your website research that we began in class today. At least 5 websites need to be included!
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Study for Tomorrow's Quiz!
Tonight at home, make sure to study for tomorrow's quiz on nouns!
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John Jay Activity
John Jay Activity
Submit a picture in Teams that includes your highlights and notes of your article, your responses to 1-4, then make sure to include your speech (whether completed as a group or individually!)
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Turn in Debate Notes
Turn in the debate notes for our Loyalists Vs. Patriots debate! See Teams for information. This will be a grade for both SS and ELA!
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Finish Final Draft of News Story
Finish your final draft for your news story and post to our Teams account. Make sure to double check your final draft accomplishes all the requirements for a final draft! These are posted on the Teams assignment as well.
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5 W's Homework Assignments
For your ELA notes turn-in this week, please upload a picture of the running assignments we have been working on involving the "5 W's". The paper(s) that you wrote your assignments on should be separate from your spiral notebook. A reminder of the homework assignment from each day:
Monday- Record an actual event that happened to you this day using the 5 W's
Tuesday- Record a new event that happened to you this day adding "drama words" to your 5 W's observation
Thursday- Find a news article or video of interest to you. See if you can identify the 5 W's in the article/video and locate any drama words being used. In no less than 3 sentences, rate how effective the article or video used our journalism strategies; did the drama words help you gain perspective or interest of the story? Were the 5 W's easy to find?
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In Class Observation-News Story
In class you observed an event or events around you, writing down what you saw, heard, and/or felt, as well as who was involved. With the notes you made for your observation, create a news story! Your story should be no less than 3 sentences, includes ALL of the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When and Why), and includes at least one "drama word" to add to the drama of your observation! Creativity is encouraged!
Note: A list of potential words that can be used to add to the drama of your story can be found on our Teams account under "Files">"Class Materials">"Drama Words".
REMEMBER: Include this homework assignment to the same page as last night's homework!
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5 W's Event Observation
Record the 5 W's of ANY event you see or something that happened to you. Write a sentence or a "headline" that includes all 5 W's from your observation or experience. Prepare to share your 5 W's and your sentence in class tomorrow. Write down your observation on a separate page outside of your notebook.
5 W's: Who, What, Where, When, Why
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ELA Notes from 9/14-9/14 AND English homework
Please turn in your daily class work/homework notes from 9/14-9/17 in ELA to our Microsoft Teams class account. Upload a picture of all your notes under "VDW" (Vocab Daily Work) and EDW (English Daily Work) by Friday (9/18) morning!
Reminder! Include your homework exercise from page 41, #6-13 odd, in your notes as well! Any homework done on a separate piece of paper that was not completed in your spiral, please tape and add to your spiral notes.
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English Textbook Exercises page 38
Complete exercises 9-19 (odd) on page 38 in your English textbook.