Grade 8 Language Arts
HOMEWORK
March 13-29, 2020
Please check your answers against the Answer Keys provided in the following link and let me know if and where you may have questions.
2020-03-25_150014_grade_8_covid-19_answer_keys_english.pdf
*****Please submit Exercises in English WB p. 61 &62 "Reviewing Verbs" by Wednesday 3/25/20 via email to [email protected].
mrs._mergner_-language_arts.pdf
Parents/ Students,
This lesson plan is intended to be accomplished over a period of 14 days.
A suggested PACING GUIDE is to do 1-3 pages and focused grammar lessons per day
or VERBS week 3/16-20/2020
ADJECTIVES week 3/22-27/2020
DUE 3/30/2020
CORONA VIRUS QUARANTINE:
Materials: Exercises in English WB *** all work to be done in the WB
Learning Objectives:
March 13-29, 2020
Please check your answers against the Answer Keys provided in the following link and let me know if and where you may have questions.
2020-03-25_150014_grade_8_covid-19_answer_keys_english.pdf
*****Please submit Exercises in English WB p. 61 &62 "Reviewing Verbs" by Wednesday 3/25/20 via email to [email protected].
mrs._mergner_-language_arts.pdf
Parents/ Students,
This lesson plan is intended to be accomplished over a period of 14 days.
A suggested PACING GUIDE is to do 1-3 pages and focused grammar lessons per day
or VERBS week 3/16-20/2020
ADJECTIVES week 3/22-27/2020
DUE 3/30/2020
CORONA VIRUS QUARANTINE:
Materials: Exercises in English WB *** all work to be done in the WB
Learning Objectives:
- SWBAT ID, use, form, correct Subject / Verb Agreement according to the PERSON (1st, the speaker; 2nd, the one spoken to; & 3rd, the one spoken about) & NUMBER (whether the Subject is singular or plural.
- SWBAT ID/distinguish correct uses of Doesn't, Don't, You are and You Were in correct Subject / Verb Agreement
- SWBAT ID/ recognize the character of an INVERTED SENTENCE
- (where the Subject follows the any part of the PREDICATE as in a QUESTION with a split verb phrase
- or when the sentence begins with the adverb "There is/are" or "Here is/are"
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement in sentences beginning with the adverb "There is/are" or "Here is/are."
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Subjects and Verbs with intervening phrases. SWBAT Distinguish the Subject of the sentences from any noun(s) or pronoun(s) in the intervening phrase.
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Compound Subjects connected by "and", & their predicate Verbs.
- SWBAT to distinguish between when a compound subject refers to a single individual subject (singular) or to two entirely separate (plural) subjects from the context clues in the sentence.
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Compound Subjects connected by "Or" or "Nor" & their Predicate Verbs.
- Exercises in English WB p. 56 Compound Subjects connected by "Or" or "Nor"
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Subjects preceded by Each, Every, Many a, or No.
- Exercises in English WB p. 57 "Subjects preceded by Each, Every, Many a, or No"
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Indefinite Pronouns as Subjects -- INDEFINITE PRONOUNS are ALWAYS considered singular as they refer to only one person, place or thing in a very indefinite manner.
- Exercises in English WB p. 58 "Agreement With Indefinite Pronouns"
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of Collective Nouns as Subjects - collective Nouns are always singular when they refer to the group as a single unit.
- Exercises in English WB p. 59 "Agreement With Collective Nouns"
- SWBAT ID/ form correct Subject / Verb Agreement of special nouns as Subjects --
- Some nouns are plural in form but singular in use and meaning
- Some nouns are used only in the plural sense.
- Exercises in English WB p. 60
- SWBAT review KINDS of Verbs - ACTION VERBS ( Transitive/ Intransitive); LINKING VERBS;
- - REGULAR/ IRREGULAR - 4 Principal Parts of all Verbs;
- QUALITIES of VERBS - Tenses (formation/ use) - SIMPLE, PROGRESSIVE, & PERFECT
- - VOICE (ACTIVE vs. PASSIVE);
- - MOOD 1). Indicative Mood,
- 2). Potential Form of the Indicative Mood,
- 3).Emphatic Form of the Indicative Mood,
- 4).Imperative Mood,
- 5).Subjunctive Mood.
- Exercises in English WB p. 61 &62
- SWBAT define the use of an ADJECTIVE * see definitions/lesson Exercises in English WB p. 11
- SWBAT ID/ distinguish between a common and Proper Adjective -- (think about the definitions of Common and Proper Nouns!)
- SWBAT explain the QUALITIES that can be described using DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES.
- Exercises in English WB p. 11
- SWBAT USE, ID adjectives used in the *Usual position ( before the noun it modifies); *After the Noun (see the models on the lesson); as a *Subjective Complement (SC) following a Linking Verb; or as an *Objective Complement (OC), an adjective that completes the sense of the Direct Object.
- Exercises in English WB p. 11 "Descriptive Adjectives, Position of Adjectives."
- Exercises in English WB p. 12 "More on the Position of Adjectives."
- SWBAT ID/ Distinguish between 3 Types of LIMITING ADJECTIVES: Demonstrative, Interrogative and Indefinite Adjectives.
- Exercises in English WB p. 13 "Demonstrative, Interrogative and Indefinite Adjectives."
- SWBAT ID/ distinguish between, form the THREE DEGREES of Comparison of ADJECTIVES: Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Degrees.
- Exercises in English WB p. 14 & 15.
- SWBAT ID/ distinguish how/when to use the adjective qualifiers "Few" and "Little" correctly. Few is used when the noun represents that which can be seen, touched, or counted as in CONCRETE NOUNS; Little is used when the noun represents that which is measured as in an ABSTRACT NOUN or a quantity of MEASURE (sugar, Flour in a recipe).
- Exercises in English WB p. 16 "Few and Little With Concrete and Abstract Nouns."
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS and DUE DATES
PAST DUE HW
March 12, 2020 Exercises i English WB p. 55 "Subject/Verb Agreement with Compound Subjects"
March 11, 2020 Exercises i English WB p. 52 "Subject/Verb Agreement"
March 10, 2020 Exercises i English WB p. 50 "Subjunctive Mood."
March 2, 2020 Complete the Simple Tenses Active and Passive Voice conjugation; the Progressive Tense conjugation and the Perfect Tenses in Active and Passive Voice for the verb "to give" begun in class.
February 27 , 2020
G.U.M. pp. 100 & 101 "Using Verb Tenses."
February 20 , 2020 "Simple Tense"Conjugation of the verb "to forget" in ACTIVE and PASSIVE VOICE across Simple Present, Simple Past and Simple Future Tenses. Passive Voice Poem- correct and revise for correct use, formation and effective use of Passive Voice verb construction in your original Passive Voice Poem modeled on the "Tree" poem on p. 372 "Practice Power" in Voyages in English -- FINAL draft due in class FRIDAY 2/21/20 --typed; centered attractively on page with a hand-drawn picture or printed image.
February 19 , 2020
Passive Voice Poem- correct and revise for correct use, formation and effective use of Passive Voice verb construction in your original Passive Voice Poem modeled on the "Tree" poem on p. 372 "Practice Power" in Voyages in English -- FINAL draft due in class FRIDAY 2/21/20 --typed; centered attractively on page with a hand-drawn picture or printed image.
February 18 , 2020
Passive Voice Poem- create an original Passive Voice Poem modeled on the "Tree" poem on p. 372 "Practice Power" in Voyages in English -- rough draft due in class tomorrow
February 13 , 2020
Ex. in Eng. p. 45 #1-10
February 12 , 2020
VERB TEST #1 today - no new HW
February 10 , 2020
1). Voyages in English pp. 359-360 copy and form the 4 Principal Parts of the Irreg. Verbs "to stride" to "to write" -- STUDY for final Principal Parts of Irreg. Verbs quiz tomorrow 2/11/2020
2). VERB TEST #1 on Wednesday 2/12/20 Know the 4 Principal Parts of the Irreg. Verbs Know the difference between Regular and Irregular Verbs and ID each Know the difference between Action and Linking Verbs and ID each Know the difference between TRANSITIVE and INTRANSITIVE ACTION Verbs and ID/ distinguish each
February 6 , 2020
scantron testing today - no new HW
February 4 , 2020 Exercises in English WB p. 44 PART A only---- "Linking Verbs and ID/Dist. the part of speech of the SC (Subjective Complements) Principal Parts of Irreg. Verbs -- copy and form/ STUDY the 4 Principal Parts of "to say" ---> "to sting" -- QUIZ tomorrow 2/5/20
February 3, 2020
Language of Literature G.U.M. pp. 103 & 104 -- worksheets - "Troublesome Verbs"
JANUARY 28, 2020
Copy and study the 4 Principal Parts of the verbs "to leave" to "to say"" (#46-60) from Voyages in English p. 358-359
QUIZ on Wednesday 1/29/20 Principal Parts of Verbs #31-60
JANUARY 27, 2020
Copy and study the 4 Principal Parts of the verbs "to freeze" to "to lead" (#31=45) from Voyages in English p. 358-359
QUIZ on Wednesday 1/29/20 Principal Parts of Verbs #31-60
AMERICANISM ESSAY
Personal Essay addressing the THEME: "What can we do to support our veterans, active military, and their families?"
JANUARY 14, 2020
1). FINAL Draft of AMERICANISM ESSAY due date THURS.1/16/20 - see Project Requirements and Due Dates section below for final draft.
2). Grammar Worksheet - "Subjects in Unusual Order" G.U.M. packet p. 20
JANUARY 6-8, 2020
2nd Draft of AMERICANISM ESSAY due date extended to THURS.1/9/20 - must show revisions as evidence of effective use of the WRITING PROCESS.
Copy and study the 4 Principal Parts of the verbs "to freeze" to "to lead" (#31=45) from Voyages in English p. 358-359
QUIZ on Wednesday 1/29/20 Principal Parts of Verbs #31-60
AMERICANISM ESSAY
Personal Essay addressing the THEME: "What can we do to support our veterans, active military, and their families?"
- minimum of 350 words - maximum 400 words
- expect 5 well-written and well-developed paragraphs
- paper organized according to a recognizable Thesis Statement in the Introductory paragraph.
- Effective Use of Writing Process = Quiz Grade
- Final Essay quality and idea expression and idea development = TEST Grade
- DUE DATES:
- 2nd Draft due THURS.1/9/20 - Double-spaced and lines of text numbered throughout. ****must show revisions as evidence of use of the WRITING PROCESS.
- FINAL - due Wednesday 1/15/20 in class typed and properly formatted;
- 2 copies needed:
- NO NAME printed on one copy for submission to American Legion Contest ;
- One with name for grading in class.
- 2 copies needed:
JANUARY 14, 2020
1). FINAL Draft of AMERICANISM ESSAY due date THURS.1/16/20 - see Project Requirements and Due Dates section below for final draft.
2). Grammar Worksheet - "Subjects in Unusual Order" G.U.M. packet p. 20
JANUARY 6-8, 2020
2nd Draft of AMERICANISM ESSAY due date extended to THURS.1/9/20 - must show revisions as evidence of effective use of the WRITING PROCESS.