Sunday, November 16, 2014

English 8

English 8
Week of November 17-November 21
 Reading/Literature: This week we will read “The Gift of the Magi” http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1014/. Complete questions over the reading, and use this story as a lead in to our Literary Writing Unit.
Writing:  This week we will be starting our Literary Writing Unit. Students will be working towards writing a literary analysis essay. We will look at example analysis essays, review claims and writing a thesis, and choose a short story read in our Literary Reading Unit to use for the analysis essay. We will also complete a quick write in our writer’s notebook on our block scheduled day.
Grammar: Each day at the beginning of class, students will be answering questions in their everyday editing part of the writer’s notebook as bell work. The questions are formatted like questions from standardized tests on grammar and mechanics.

Novel Reading: Students should be reading at least three times each week for 15-20 minutes outside of English class. Reading Logs will be collected each Friday. Students need to be working towards completing the reading of at least 12 novels this year!
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