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    Week of November 22-24
    Grammar: finish review of Verb unit. QUIZ on Tuesday.
    Vocabulary: Review chapters 10-12. Chapter 13: Complete workbook pages. QUIZ on Tuesday.
    Literature: continue reporting about the Poets and reading selections from text.
    Book Report: no written book report this second quarter -- you will do book talking 15 December
    Practice testing for placement examination every Monday until December
    A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (January)
    November 15-19, 1999
    Field Trip on Thursday morning to Shakespeare
    Heads up: Compositions this quarter: persuasive writing and writing to express an opinion (argument).
    Grammar: Continue verb review
    Business Letter due Monday, Nov 15
    Homework:
  • due Tuesday 11/16 pg 197 (all) Subject-Verb Agreement
  • due Thursday 11/18, pg 198 (all)S-V Agreement continued
  • due Friday 11/19 pg 199 (all) inverted order

    • Literature:
    Continue oral reports and analysis of poetry (rhythm)
    "Highwayman," Women," "Texas Rangers," "How Tuesday Began."
    QUIZ on WEDNESDAY (rhythm poems)
    Book Talk (Reporting) = December 15, 1999
    Spelling: Test Friday
    Chapter 12 (and complete the review for 10-12 to turn in on Friday)
    8th Grade Assignments - November 1-5, 1999
    Grammar: Continue verb review
    Homework:
  • due Tuesday 11/2 Irregular Verbs, pg 190 (all)
  • due Wednesday 11/3, pg. 191 (all)more irregular verbs
  • due Thursday 11/4, pg 192 (all) progressive forms
  • due Friday 11/5 pg 193 transitive and intransitive verbs. QUIZ on Friday.

    • Heads up: Compositions due this quarter: Business letter, persuasive writing and writing to express an opinion (argument).

    Spelling: chapter 10, TEST Friday
    Literature:
    Introduction to poetry unit. Handouts ="elements of poetry" and "how to read poetry". TEST THURSDAY on handout information.
    Continue reading part two of Farenheit 451. Quiz Wednesday. For more information about Bradbury go to "Ray Bradbury Page" at http://www.brookingsbook.com/bradbury/bradbury.htm
    8th Grade Assignments - October 25-29, 1999
    Grammar: Continue verb review
    Homework:
  • due Tuesday 10/26 page 150-152 (take notes, do guided and independent practices - in your notebook)
  • due Wednesday, lesson 4 page 153-154 (notes and practices - in notebook)

    • Spelling:do chapter 9 in workbook. Due Wednesday.
    Literature: read up to page 60 in Farenheit 451. Test Wednesday.
    8th Grade Assignments - October 18-22, 1999
    Monday 10/18: Barron's test practice; Grammar text p. 103 #25-37; also revise pairs of sentences to make compound, complex sentences, and appositive constructions (in notebook). HW: Grammar page 103 #38-76 (on a separate sheet, not in notebook); finish reading and questions (p. 432) Flowers for Algernon in Literature text. Review Foreshadowing p. 667.
    Tuesday 10/19: Begin unit 5 p. 146 VERBS. CW: p. 103 #77-82 and p. 100 Read and Do Revisions. NO HW due to Confirmation. Congratulations!
    Wednesday 10/20: Grammar unit 5, lesson 2 Verb Phrases. QUIZ on Flowers Read "The Two Brothers" (p. 204) and "The Dinner Party" (p. 208) in Grammar textbook (p. 204). Answer think and discuss questions. HW: GRAMMAR textbook p 187 (all); and page 209 "Reading and Writing Connection" and "Vocabulary."
    Thursday 10/21: Grammar QUIZ (lesson 1,2 verbs, noun review) Review Chapter 8 vocabulary. Literature: read The Last Boast (p. 434) and The Bracelet (p. 439); Review flashback (p. 665)
    Friday 10/22: TEST Vocabulary chapter 8; Grammar Lesson 3 Verb Tense.
    POETRY PROJECT: due Monday, November 8, 1999

    Requirements:
  • 1 poster (use ½ size poster sheet; feature name of poet, at least one poem by that poet, illustrated)
  • 1 written report (biographic info about the poet - include a timeline that highlights three (3) world events that took place during poet's lifetime. Briefly analyze a feature poem: What characterizes the poetry? Is it narrative? or lyric? What about rhyme and meter? Rhythm? What techniques does the poet use to express ideas? Similes? Metaphors? Alliteration? Etc. - see handout about reading poetry for assistance.) Typed double-spaced if possible.
  • 1 handout summarizing major information from your report (outline or bullet form) for classmates; include three (3) objective test questions. Typed double-spaced if possible.
  • 1 oral report about the poet - includes recitation of poem(s) from the poet's collection.
  • Be neat, artistic.
  • your class number corresponds to your assigned poet.

    • 1. Anne Bradstreet 2. Michael Wigglesworth 3. John Trumbull 4. Philip Freneau 5. Phillis Wheatly 6. Walt Whitman 7. William Cullen Bryant 8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 9. James Russell Lowell 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes 11. John Greenleaf Whittier 12. Frances E.W. Harper 13. Ralph Waldo Emmerson 14. Emily Dickinson 15. Edgar Allan Poe 16. Herman Melville 17. Sidney Lanier 18. Paul Lawrence Dunbar 19. Edgar Lee Masters 20. Edwin Arlington Robinson 21. Robert Frost 22. Gertrude Stein 23. Wallace Stevens 24. Carl Sandburg 25. Langston Hughes 26. William Carlos Williams 27. E.E. Cummings
    Possible substitutions (write request):
    1. Ezra Pound 2. Vachel Lindsey 3. T.S. Eliot 4. Hart Crane 5. Marianne Moore 6. Robert Lowell 7. Sylvia Plath 8. Robert Penn Warren 9. Theodore Roethke 10. Amy Lowell 11. Sherman Alexie 12. James Wright
    Week of October 11-15
    Monday: Columbus Day
    Grammar: Unit 3, continuing Noun Review (lessons 3,4,5)
    Tuesday: BARRON's. Grammar HW textbook page 109 #1-42
    Wednesday: grammar HW page 110 #1-60
    Thursday: grammar HW page 111 #1-22 and Study for quiz on lessons 3,4,5.
    Friday 10/15:Quiz on Lessons 3,4,5 Noun review
    Compare and contrast composition due
    500 word theme, typed (if possible, double spaced, please). Attach all drafts so that I can examine your writing process. Bring samples of advertising from newspapers, magazines, junk mail.
    Spelling/Vocabulary:
    Chapter 7 TEST on Friday
    Turn in practice pages on or before Friday
    Literature:
    Read "Upon the Waters" by Joanne Greenberg (p. 387),
    "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton (p. 396),
    "My Delicate Heart Condition" by Toni Cade Bambera (p. 403)
    Be sure to record answers to think and discuss questions in your notebook.
    TEST on Thursday 10/14.
    Week of October 4-8
    Grammar: nouns (common, proper, collective, compound abstract, and concrete) Unit 3, lessons 1,2. Quiz Thursday.
    Literature: read "Thank You Ma'am" and "Ransom of Red Chief." Quiz on Thursday 10/7.
    "The Medicine Bag" by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (p. 374)
    "Old Man at the Bridge" by Ernest Hemingway (p. 383)
    Spelling: Chapter 6 (Test Friday); review ch 3-6 due Friday.
    Composition: Write to Compare and Contrast. Please reference text pages 592-593 for guidelines (you may use prompt on pg. 593 if you cannot think of a subject). DUE FRIDAY, October 15.
    Week of September 27-October 1
    Book Report due anytime before October 28
    Practice testing for placement examination every Monday until December
    Extra credit = any news article related to course, biographies of authors (from our literature), creative writing
    A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (after Christmas)

    INTERIMS THIS WEEK
    Early release Tuesday 9/28 at 11:30.
    Grammar: finish unit 1
    Monday 9/27: HW page 33 "C" and page 50 #1-28.
    Wednesday: lesson 10, pg 34-35. HW pg 51 #1-28.
    Thursday: possible pop quiz (attached to literature test). Study for spell/vocab test.
    Friday: unit 3: types of nouns (if time allows)
    Spelling/Vocabulary:
    Chapter 5 TEST on Friday
    Turn in practice pages on or before Friday
    Literature:
    Read "Mr. Mendelsohn," The Drummer Boy of Shiloh," and "Southpaw."
    Do think and discuss in notebooks; read about "inference" page 671
    True/false QUIZ on Wednesday about Mendelsohn. Homework assigned during class.
    Wednesday 9/29: read "Drummer Boy." Pay close attention to the notes in the margins of text.
    Thursday 9/30: TEST. Covers "Mendelsohn," "Drummer Boy," and terms (point of view, setting, inference, plot and characterization)
    Week of September 20-24
    Book Report due anytime before October 28
    Practice testing for placement examination every Monday until December
    Extra credit = any news article related to course, biographies of authors (from our literature), creative writing
    A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (after Christmas)
    Grammar: finish unit 1
    Spelling/Vocabulary: chapter 4
  • test on Friday
  • Review of Ch 1-3 due Tuesday, 9/21
  • turn in practice pages on or before Friday
    Literature: Rain, Rain Go Away, The Tell Tale Heart, and Charles
    Week of September 13-18
    Grammar: continue review of sentences
  • narrative statement due Tuesday 9/14 (500 word minimum)
    Spelling/Vocabulary: chapter 3
  • test on Friday
  • turn in practice pages on or before Friday
    Literature: continue reading short stories
  • test Thursday (short stories)
  • Retest "elements of fiction" matching on Monday 9/13 at lunchtime