Language Arts 8 Assignments
- Instructor
- Mrs. Pamela Bucklew
- Term
- 2017-18 Trimester 2
- Department
- Lang Arts
- Description
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Read your free-choice novel for a minimum of 100 minutes weekly.
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Grammar Unit 6: Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections on Thursday, 03/01.
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Yellow Independent Reading Log for 2017 - 2018 is due on Wednesday, 02/28.
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Novel Celebration #2 for Trimester 2
You should have read a minimum of 400 pages for the second trimester and be able to write about the latest book you are reading or have finished reading.
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Read your free-choice novel for a minimum of 100 minutes weekly.
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Close Read "House Divided" Speech Writing Prompt Response on StudySync due Wednesday, 02/14.
To locate and complete the assignment, go to portal.pvpusd.net, login, open McGrawHill, find your StudySync assignments and open the "Close Read of the 'House Divided Speech.'" After completing the assignment under the "Read" tab, open the "Write" tab and you can type your short speech there.
The speech should include the following:
- a topic you care about
- specific words that convey the tone you want to create
- a text structure (sequential, cause and effect, problem/solution, or compare and contrast)
- an allusion or image
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Read your free-choice novel for a minimum of 100 minutes weekly.
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Signed Argumentative Essay due Friday, 02/09.
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The typed, printed, and signed letter of thanks to the PTSA is due Friday, 02/02.
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Unit 5 Grammar TEST on Adjectives and Adverbs is on Thursday, 02/01.
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Unit 5 grammar packet is due on 1/31
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The Museum of Tolerance field trip is Tuesday, 01/30. Be aware of your bus assignment:
Period 2 is on bus C.
Period 3 is on bus B.
Period 4 students with the last name that starts with A - L are on bus D.
Period 4 students with the last name that starts with M - Z are on bus E.
Period 5 is on bus F.
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Read your free-choice novel for a minimum of 100 minutes weekly. If this is not something you look forward to doing, ask Mrs. Bucklew or a friend to help you find a book you will look forward to reading.
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Novel Celebration (Take-Home) Typed, Double-spaced due on Thursday, 01/11/18
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Return the signed eighth grade field trip permission slip to the Museum of Tolerance by Thursday, January 11.
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Vocabulary Unit 3 due Tuesday, 01/09/18
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Personal Annex Illustration is due on Thursday, 12/14.
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Complete grammar lessons as they are covered in class. The Unit 4: Pronouns grammar lessons packet is due: on Tuesday, December 12.
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Unit 4: Pronouns grammar test is on Tuesday, 12/12.
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Read a minimum of 100 minutes weekly. You may count rereading The Diary of Anne Frank play toward this homework assignment.
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The Anne Frank test is on Thursday, 12/7.
- LA8 test is on the play version read aloud in class.
- LA8 Accl test is on the diary read independently.
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Read a minimum of 100 minutes weekly. You may count rereading The Diary of Anne Frank play toward this homework assignment.