Assignments
Language Arts 8 (Period 2)
- Instructor
- Mrs. Bucklew
- Term
- 2019-20 Trimester 1
- Department
- Lang Arts
Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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Personification Poem due Thursday, 11/21
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Free-choice Novel Celebration on Wednesday, 11/20
(This is an assessment of the novels students selected to read during the first trimester.)
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Home Reading Record (Yellow) due Wednesday, 11/20.
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Extra Credit Opportunity: Return your Suspense Essay TOMORROW, 11/19, signed by your parent/guardian to earn and extra credit point in writing.
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Grammar Unit 2: Nouns Test on Thursday, 11/14
Study the Unit 2: Nouns grammar lessons and review sheet to prepare for the test.
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Unit 2: Nouns lessons (yellow) due Thursday, 11/14
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading.
Accel students may apply time reading The Book Thief to the language arts weekly reading requirement.
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Complete Lesson 8 (pp. 63-64) of the Unit 2: Nouns grammar lessons by Tuesday, 11/05/19.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading.
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Return the "Movie Release Form Language Arts" signed by Tuesday, 10/29.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading. Students may apply the time spent at home reading the anchor text, Monster, to the weekly home reading requirement.
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Finish reading the anchor text, Monster; comprehensive TEST on the entire novel on Tuesday, 10/08.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading. Students may apply the time spent at home reading the anchor text, Monster, to the weekly home reading requirement.
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Read Monster to page 243 by Thursday, October 3.
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Students who have not yet submitted the Metamorphosis StudySync online assignment, need to do so by Friday, before their language arts class.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading. Students may apply the time spent at home reading the anchor text, Monster, to the weekly home reading requirement.
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Read to page 160 of the anchor text, Monster, by Thursday, 9/26.
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Grammar Unit 1 TEST on Tuesday, 09/24.
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Unit 1 Grammar Lessons (yellow packet) are due on Tuesday, 9/24, before the grammar test.
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Read your free-choice novel nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of weekly reading.
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Complete grammar lessons as assigned in class throughout the week. (The pace will depend on the needs of the class.)
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Read Walter Dean Meyers' Monster (our current anchor text) pages 1 - 44 by Wednesday. Be prepared to answer questions regarding the assigned reading.
Also, please know that students' time spent reading the anchor text at home may be applied to the 100 reading minutes required weekly for the language arts class.
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Read nightly for a minimum total of 100 minutes of reading at home each week.
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Please complete Lessons 1 and 2 on pages 47 through 50 of the Unit 1 grammar lessons packet on types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative.
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Please submit the creative writing assignment, "What My Name Means," on Tuesday, 09/10.
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Read your free-choice novels 100 minutes each week.
For the remainder of this week, since it is a short week, read an average of 20 minutes a night, three nights.
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Free choice novel and supplies to organize language arts materials are due Wednesday, September 4.
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Please return the signed Student Information Sheet and the "Welcome to Language Arts!" letter.