Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

Please visit our blog to find out about what we covered in class, homework assignments and our curriculum goals for Language Arts -- Reading and Writing.

Reminders for the Class of 2015 will also be posted.


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

Language Arts:
Today we created 8 flash cards on Characterization, Figurative Language - Oxymoron, and Words (denotation, connotation, synonyms and antonyms)
We took a quiz on Chapter 15 and 16 of The Hunger Games.  We took notes and discussed pronouns and antecedents.  We met with our Literature Circles & watched part of the movie.
We checked our Simple Solutions #14 and reviewed transitive/intransitive verbs, direct and indirect objects and pronouns.

Homework:
Simple Solutions #15
Test corrections
Read 17 & 18 of The Hunger Games; complete job or Story Map


DUE 10/8/14 -- go online and complete these exercises;  on looseleaf write the website, list the # of the exercise and the name; list your score.
www.roadtogrammar.com
Subject of the Sentence #311
Predicates #239
Prepositions #241
Noun or verb #177
    Identify predicate
    Identify subject
     Preposition quiz
     Pronoun quiz



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