8th Language Arts

Course Outline
Mrs. Jordan

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August:  Welcome Back!

• Introductions and Expectations

• Summer Reading Tests

• Short Stories begin...

September:  

• Capitalization and Punctuation

• 8 parts of speech

• Effective paragraphs

• three and five paragraph essays

• vocabulary

• short stories and literary elements

• start independent reading program/planning 1st activity

October:

• Review Parts of Speech

• plurals

• three and five paragraph essay

• Wrap up Short Stories

• vocabulary

• Complements

• Chains, historical fiction

November:

December:

January:

• 1st Semester Exams

February:

March:

April:

May:

• Poetry

• Review for exams!

**** Agenda is subject to change!!