Welcome to Junior High Language Arts! Metaphors Be With You!

 L.A. Grade 8

  Week of Nov. 16 - Using vocabulary words from their literature notebook, students are writing a scenario that they will present to the class.  This is a real-world, 2009 eighth grade script incorporating the following words: bystander, upstander, victim, perpetrator, outsider and outcast.  On Tuesday the students will watch an ABC news video on Prejudice.  The follow-up assessment for this will give the students an opportunity to share what they learned as well as to dispel myths and misperceptions presented in the video. Wednesday night's homework gives students a chance try on their own some of the subordinate clause work that was reviewed in class Wednesday.  Additionally, on Thursday students will have an opportunity to affirm what they remember and can do as a result of Wednesday's class.  On Friday we will practice combining sentences by using adjective and adverb clauses.  Students will also work on the dialogue for their group scripts on prejudice.Week of Nov. 23 - From the student's own creative minds, they wrote sentences working with adj. and adv. clauses.  They also analyzed the poem The Hangman and compared it to the allegory The Terrible Things.  They worked with that symbolism to enhance the meaning of their real-world scripts and the titles for those scripts.  Our vocabulary words focus on the roots "miss" and "mit" meaning send, and the root "port" meaning carry.

Have a wonderful, loving, and safe Thanksgiving!

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