8th Grade R/ELA 21-22 Assignments

-After reading, use the story to fill out the Narrative Perspective Google Slides as necessary. Work for this is due TODAY. It may be helpful to read once for a general understanding, twice with questions in mind, and a third time to answer things specifically. Make sure to use examples from the reading to support your claims. Answers for each slides should be 3-5 sentences in length, complete sentences used for full credit. We will also read each of our 5 stories, or parts of it, together (we will read small sections from this together). You may include any commentary I or the class gives as part of your answers.

Use this area to turn in extra credit for three of your Language Arts classes. Here are your options. Feel free to do one, two, or none of them. They MUST be in by Thursday morning. Each one can boost your OVERALL grade in each class by 3% but must follow the short guidelines below

ELA: Write a 5 paragraph essay including evidence based on one of the OTHER prompts from our in class essay.

Spelling: Create illustrations for 25 words (any 25) from Romeo and Juliet vocab lists. These must be by hand

READING LITERATURE NOTE: Create a short video, animation, or comic book/graphic novel that has your own interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. You must include major plot points. If making a video it must be between 2-5 minutes.

Directions for setting work:--Read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
-After reading, use the story to fill out the Plot Google Slides as necessary. Work for this is due Thursday. It may be helpful to read once for a general understanding, twice with questions in mind, and a third time to answer things specifically. Make sure to use examples from the reading to support your claims. Answers for each slides should be 3-5 sentences in length, complete sentences used for full credit. We will also read each of our 5 stories, or parts of it, together (we will read small sections from this on Thursday together). You may include any commentary I or the class gives as part of your answers.

Read “Borders” by Thomas King
-After reading, use the story to fill out the Setting Google Slides as necessary. Work for this is due Tuesday It may be helpful to read once for a general understanding, twice with questions in mind, and a third time to answer things specifically. Make sure to use examples from the reading to support your claims. Answers for each slides should be 3-5 sentences in length, complete sentences used for full credit. We will also read each of our 5 stories, or parts of it, together (we will read small sections from this on Thursday together). You may include any commentary I or the class gives as part of your answers.

After reading, use the story to fill out the Theme Google Slides as necessary. Work for this is due Tuesday. It may be helpful to read once for a general understanding, twice with questions in mind, and a third time to answer things specifically. Make sure to use examples from the reading to support your claims. Answers for each slides should be 3-5 sentences in length, complete sentences used for full credit. We will also read each of our 5 stories, or parts of it, together. You may include any commentary I or the class gives as part of your answers.

This is your final project for Romeo and Juliet. There are 4 major parts to it. This should not take you more than an hour to finish total, especially if you have been taking thorough notes/writing good answers in your packet. Follow the directions on each slide carefully

Use Vocabulary.com to complete your Spelling practice for the week. Make sure you are using the SPELLING BEE list, but you may also practice off of the regular vocab list. Add a screenshot at the end of your progress in the hopes that you can get 75% or more by the end. Minimum to turn in is 75% accuracy but you MUST have the whole list completed.

Using your book as evidence and any annotations and/or notes you've taken for ANY assignments on this novel, choose one of the three prompts to answer in a well-written 5 paragraph essay.

As we are working through learning about essay structure, it would be good to use your notes from those lessons to help you. This essay must be original (meaning not plagiarized from any source including classmates).

You MUST include evidence from the novel to back up your claims in each body paragraph. ONLY use the Google Doc that is attached here to write your essay. Attach your brainstorm as an image or document to be graded.

For those of you that were not in class, please watch the attached video and fill out the worksheet. On the second page, choose ONE to answer. 

Given that you've had access to this assignment the entire time we've been reading the book, simply use this place to transfer over your work that you've already done. If you haven't done these as instructed, you will have to catch up.

Write 20 ORIGINAL sentences (not plagiarized) of your choice. This must be done in the document provided.

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Use this area to turn in extra credit for any of your three Language Arts classes. Here are your options. Feel free to do one, two, all three, or none of them. They MUST be in by Friday evening. Each one can boost your OVERALL grade in each class by 3% but must follow the short guidelines below

ELA OR Literature (must tell me what you want me to use it for): Choose one writing prompt from the TKAM workbook to turn into a full page piece of writing. Depending on the writing, follow standard writing rules. 

Spelling: Create a video or Google Slideshow that is basically a portfolio of all of your spelling pretests. Photos should be clear. Video should show the entirety of each page so I can read it

Click on the link below to start the game

Write 20 ORIGINAL sentences (not plagiarized) of your choice. This must be done in the document provided.

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Based off of the lesson from class (or the powerpoint attached for those who are not physically here) please complete the GoFormative on Verbal Classification.

Based off of the lesson from class (or the powerpoint attached for those who are not physically here) please complete the worksheet on analogies. 

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Using your book as evidence and any annotations and/or notes you've taken for ANY assignments on this novel, choose one of the three prompts to answer in a well-written 5 paragraph essay.

As we are working through learning about essay structure, it would be good to use your notes from those lessons to help you. This essay must be original (meaning not plagiarized from any source including classmates).

You MUST include evidence from the novel to back up your claims in each body paragraph. ONLY use the Google Doc that is attached here to write your essay. Attach your brainstorm as an image or document to be graded.

Read the article with us as a class, and then use the GoFormative as an assignment after we are done with the article. In the written response question, write your answer in ACE paragraph form: Assertion, Citation (from the article), and Explanation.

Use this viewing guide to answer questions while you are watching the film version of The Call of the Wild. Be careful and do not assume that all answers will be the same as they would in the book. All answers should be according to the film. This will not be graded only for completion, but by the accuracy of the answers. All areas have light grey text boxes and are easily editable. Please make sure that you ONLY open this up in Google Docs and NOT a PDF editor.

Take a HIGH QUALITY photo of your One Pager and submit it here. Please make double/triple sure that you have followed all directions on the rubric as this is a large chunk of your Reading/Literature grade and if you missed things, it will get deducted from your total. I've linked the rubric and original handout below. If you try to submit your One Pager and you did not get brainstorm approval from me, I will not be grading it. I can't wait to see how creative these turned out!

Please read over the One Pager PDF document before class today. These are the instructions for your The Call of the Wild final project. I will THOROUGHLY go over the instructions as well as give you examples of what this project can look like when done. The brainstorm document will be due first. You will use this brainstorm for me to approve your project and make sure that you are on track for success. Click the Google Slides (make sure it opens in slides), and click in the areas for the textboxes to start typing. Draw a line or circle using the line or circle tool on the first page to show what connect four line you are doing.

IMPORTANT: If you have questions about this before our class today, write them down so you don't forget. Do not email me or comment here about them. Wait for class.

Take a photo of your four squares and submit here

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Create what would be the conclusion paragraph that would happen in the theoretical essay that we've been practicing this week. Utilize our notes on how to write a conclusion and assume that the three claims from your thesis/body paragraphs were talked about thoroughly.

Choose 1 of the 3 body paragraphs that would happen in the theoretical essay that we've been practicing this week. Use the ACE paragraph structure to create this body paragraph. Include evidence to support your claim(s).

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

Use this document to write an intro paragraph based off of the prompt you had from Monday.

Please take photos of each side of your 4 squares.

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging. Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.

In the document provided, please write your ACE paragraph

Please take photos of each side of your 4 squares.

Use this worksheet to follow along as we explore theme vs topic in class today. Don't forget to turn in at the end of the class period.

Slides 1-5: Choose 5 different Spelling/Vocab words that you think are probably your most challenging based off of the list linked here (we will take a pretest tomorrow). Use the boxes appropriately to identify the word, it's definition, create an illustration, give an ORIGINAL example sentence, and find the etymology (origin) of that word. One word per each of those slides. IF YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE DOING THIS BY HAND, DO THAT AND INCLUDE THE PICTURES HERE.  For the illustration you may draw separately, take a picture, and add it to that box, use Google Drawings, or anything that you'd like but make sure it gets added to the slide.
Slides 6-8: Follow the directions on the given worksheets to complete your work. Add textboxes where necessary or edit as a PDF and then submit.
Your whole list of spelling words are available in Quizlet.