8A/8B Language Arts

English: Follows the Writer's Workshop Model

Focus on the major types of writing:

• Personal Narrative
• Persuasive
• Expository
• Informational/Research

Grammar relevant to focus of writing

Vocabulary units

Literacy: Folllows the Reader's Workshop Model

Focus on novel studies. Some novels of stiudy will include:

• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Nothing But the Truth Jerry Spinelli
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
• poetry of study

WEEKLY Blogging! During full weeks of school, students will be assigned a current event article to read and answer comprehension questions. Blogs are assigned on Monday and need to be completed by 11;59pm on Thursday.

8A/8B Social Studies

• The Foundations of the Nation
• A New National Identity
• The Nation Grows: Westward Expansion/New Movements in America
• Developments and Differences
• A Divided Nation
• The Civil War
• The Holocaust
• Reconstruction