8th+grade+English

//**Scope**//

Here is a link to the Scope (magazine) digital materials

[|Scope magazine digital materials]


 * Spelling**

Here are the spelling lesson word lists.

Here are links to the spelling lists for the first semester of 2015-2016. Mr. Galpin will be the teacher of record second semester and will be responsible for posting the word lists for the second semester. .These lists of words are the same words you will be discussing in your Reading class with Mrs. Knodel. They include words from the academic vocabulary list for each unit, words from the selections you will read with Mrs. Knodel, and words discussed in the vocabulary, grammar, and/or writing workshops or media studies in the various units. I will give you a copy of the word list each week in class and explain what pages the words are discussed on in you reading textbook.









Here is a link to an interactive spelling game. []

__//**Vocabulary**//__

Here is a link to a neat vocabulary resource.

[|Lexipedia]

__//**Scope magazine**//__

Here is the link to //Scope// magazine's electronic resources.

[|Scope]

__//**Literature**//__

//**Unit 5 - "Appreciating Poetry"**//

Here is a link to a list of the poems that will be the subjects of the feature articles with hyperlinks that you will write for the Writing Workshop in Unit 5. This list also includes more details about the content of your feature article, including the poetic devices that are a part of each poem.


 * //Unit 6 - "What's in Style?"//**

Here is a link to a Jeopardy game on appostives and appostive phrases. [|Appositive Jeopardy]

Here is a copy of the presentation plan you will write as part of the Writing Workshop for this unit. It will be based on one or more of the poems you read in Unit 5. Here is a sample of the first draft of the poetry feature article you will write as part of the Writing Workshop for this unit. It will be based on one of the poems you read in Unit 5 and will include hyperlinks to the text of the poem, biographical information about the author of the poem, poetic devices found in the poem, and other information.

Here are two samples of poetry feature articles for you to refer to.



Here is a copy of the grading rubric that will be used for your feature article.

Here is a link to a poem/video that describes the effects of bullying on its victims [|Poem About Bullying]

Mount St. Helens video link. [|Over the Top: The Adventures of a Volcano Chaser.]
 * Unit 8: Facts and Information**

__//**Image Grammar**//__

When you have completed Section 1 of //**Image Grammar**//, "Painting with Brush Strokes," you will write an essay. As you revise your essay, you will need to include two of each of the five types of brush strokes we have studied and then complete this worksheet on which you write down the sentences containing those brush strokes. Here is that worksheet. When you are working on Section 2 of **//Image Grammar,//** "The Musical Rhythms of Language," you will complete a writing called "The Good Old Days." This writing will be based on an interview on an older family member or an older friend of your family. Here are the worksheets you will need to complete that writing. They include an interivew form, a template of "The Good Old Days" writing, and a sample that I wrote based on an interview of my father.

Here is a list of self-teaching units that can be used to supplement the content of //Image Grammar// - Section 4 - "The Strategies of Convention" If you click on a blue link, you will be connected to the online units, and those units then include links to exercises that allow you to quiz yourself over the content.

[|Avoiding fragments - Ex. 1]

__//**Online grammar websites**//__

Here are two links to the online grammar websites that we will be using to supplement our study of grammar. You will need to keep track of your performance on these exercises on a form that I will provide.

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__//**Other grammar materials**//__

__//**Here is a link to an eight minute video that explains verb moods.**//__ __//**[|Verb Moodsd Video]**//__

__//**Graphic Organizers for Essays**//__



Here are some links to topic ideas for cause-and-effect essays and essay examples. [|Cause-and-effect essay topic ideas]

[|Cause- and- effect essay examples]

__//**Ebook: Prairie Storms**//__

Here is link to the ebook //Prairie Storms.// //[|Prairie Storms ebook]//

__//**Patriot's Pen Essay Contest**//__

[|Patriot's Pen Essay Contest]