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Homework and Classwork For the Week of January 8th 2013

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Homework and Classwork

Week of January 8, 2014

If you have been absent, please use the resources on the website.

Visit the DOL page for the most recent DOL. Complete any DOL’s you have missed while you were gone.

Visit the HOMEWORK/CLASSWORK link at the right side of the page. This will show you the specific work you missed and need to make up.

Homework:

  • EVERYDAY – 5 Minute Study Strategy
  • EVERYDAY – Reading 20 Minutes (AR novel)

o Review Chart for other assignments

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Reading

Will Watch “tru Confessions” (Disney Movie) Thursday and Friday. The media will be used to identify literary elements on screen.

Watch “Tru Confessions” – complete literary handout while watching, observe character change, cause and effect

Watch “Tru Confessions” – compare elements of literature from short stories/novel between the movie and a text read this year.

Vocabulary

Make Unit 7 Flashcards 1-10 in class. HW: 5 Minute Study Strategy

Make Unit 7 Flashcards 1-10 in class. HW: 5 Minute Study Strategy

QUIZ: Recall - Unit 7 Words 1-5

Writing

Discussed Information Collection Project. Created a list of possible topics in class. Select one topic by tomorrow.

Refine the contents of presentation based on the topic YOU have choose for the Information Collection Project HW: Create an outline/graphic organizer of presentation plan

Grammar

DOL: Review Compound Sentences (visit the DOL tab at the top of the page for today’s DOL)

DOL: Create compound sentences, fulfilling the requirements of compound sentence structure. (visit the DOL tab at the top of the page for today’s DOL)

Quiz: Compound Sentences – Review the two days of DOL’s. this will help you prepare for the DOL quiz.

Homework:

EVERYDAY – 5 Minute Study Strategy

EVERYDAY – Reading 20 Minutes (AR novel)



CCS: 8th Grade Writing

CCS: 8th Grade Language

CCS: 8th Grade Speaking and Listening