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. The book for all classes

for the third 9 weeks is The Devil`s Arithmetic.  It is a very good story about the Holocaust.

 

 

 

Lesson Plans Feb. 8-12

Monday:

 

8th Honors English:

 

Bellringer

 

Punctuation: Punctuation and capitalization in

direct quotations, divided and simple.

 

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer

 

Same as Honors English

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Academic Lab:

 

ARMT reading practice booklet, chapter 3. 

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Tuesday:

 

8th Honors English: 

 

Bellringer

 

Review sentence structure: subjects, verbs, adjectives,

adverbs, and prepositional phrases.

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8th Regular English:

 

Review sentence structure:  nouns, adjectives,

prepositional phrases.                                       

(Written and oral review) 

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Academic Lab:

 

ARMT reading

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Wednesday:  

 

8th onors English:

 

Bellringer

 

Poetry:  Students will listen to and paraphrase various poems, including

the following:  "Spring and Fall", "Janet  Waking,"and "Acquainted

with the Night."  This will be done as a written assignment. They will also

include what they believe the writer`s purpose was in writing each poem.

Work on poetry journals.

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer

 

Written review on sentence structure: adjectives

and adverbs.

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Academic Lab:

 

ARMT reading booklet

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Thursday:

 

8th Honors English:        

 

Bellringer:

 

New vocabulary word list.

Introduction and historical background for

The Devil`s Arithmetic. Begin oral reading of

chapters 1 - 5. The first test will be next week

and will cover these chapters. Homework: worksheet

on adjectives and adverbs.

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer

 

Same as HE, except no adj. and adv. worksheet

for homework.

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Academic Lab:

 

Class has been learning the list of helping verbs. Students will

have their first chance of three to say them for a grade.

Written work: (From board) Write the subject and verbs of

sentences with simple structure.

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Friday:  

 

8th Honors English:

 

Bellringer

 

Continue reading and answering study questions

on chapters 1-5 of The Devil`s Arithmetic.

Retest those who had problems with sentence structure.

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8th Regular English:

 

Bellringer

 

Same as HE

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Academic Lab:

 

Punctuation: Nouns of Address

Second chance to say helping verbs for a grade.