School Calendar

Speegle - Eighth Grade English

All classes will be reading novels throughout the year. The first novel that we are reading is

Where the Lilies Bloom. Students should purchase a copy of this book by the second week

of school. The Bookshelf (located beside the Cullman Times) is a good place to find the books

that we will be reading. It is important for students to keep up with their reading assignments

because they will have a test on 2-3 chapters of the novel each Friday.

 

 

Lesson Plans  Nov. 23-24 Monday :

 

8th Honors English:

 

Bellringer: Punctuate and capitalize a direct quotation

               Quotation marks with a song title 

               Their -  there

               Correct run-on sentence

  

Read examples of poems with allusions. Tonight students will write their own

poems containing allusions.                                                          

Copy and discuss new vocabulary/ spelling list: Commonly Misused Words 

         (peal-peel/ continual-continuous / indicted-inducted / flair-flare/ etc.)

Conduct a class spelling bee to determine which students will compete in

         the school spelling bee.

                               

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer: Same as Honors English

 

Spelling bee to choose contestants for school spelling bee.

Continue to read and study Alabama Moon, Ch. 18-22.

 Study questions have been given that correspond

with 80-90 percent of the test questions. Class time today will be given to read

and finish answering those questions.  Test will be tomorrow. (11-24-09)

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Academic Lab:                             

 

Correct use of the apostrophe.

 

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Tuesday:

 

8th Honors English:

 

Bellringer:   Correct use of past form of lie

                  Underline names of newspapers

                  Quotation marks with names of articles

                  Punctuation of dates within a sentence  

 

Finish spelling bee to choose contestants.

Read student-written poems that contain allusions. 

Students will identify them as Historical, Mythological,

Literary, or Biblical.               

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer: Same as HE

 

Test on chapters 18 - 22 of Alabama Moon.

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Academic Lab:

 

Practice with troublesome irregular verbs.

 

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