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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Wednesday October 15, 2014 (updated 9:00 p.m.)

Language Arts:
Today we reviewed grammar.  We went over our Simple Solutions Test #4 and practiced picking out the 8 parts of speech and finding complete subjects and predicates.
We watched a Brain Pop video on the Parts of Speech & completed a listening activity.
Our Powerful Practice of Academic and Instructional Vocabulary was introduced.
Our graphic organizer for roots/prefixes and suffixes was modeled for the root "lumin."  Students are to complete one for the root: credere.
We continued reading Chapter 26 of The Hunger Games


Homework:
Due Thursday:
1.  Study for Test on Grammar (8 parts of speech, define them, what questions do they answer, can you pick them out of a sentence?)  Complete and simple subjects; complete and simple predicates.
2. Write the introductory paragraph of an essay on "clothes."  Look at our journal entry where we brainstormed what do clothes say about a person.  Include a hook.
Due Friday:
Test Corrections on SS Test #4
The Hunger Games Project
Due Monday:
1. Online quizzes (take these quizzes, write out the following information on looseleaf & record your score).  These should help you prepare for Thursday's grammar test.
   Roadtogrammar.com
#1 Adjectives and Prepositions
#2 Adjectives and Nouns
#4 Adverbs
#16 Articles
#180 Object of the sentence
#189 Parts of Speech 1
#190 Parts of Speech 2
#342 Verbs and Prepositions
2. Graphic organizer for "credere."
3. Current events #3

8th graders got measured for caps and gowns today.

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