My course follows the Common Core Curriculum as it pertains to 8th Grade Language Arts. My objective is to create a learner friendly environment where students feel safe while mastering the various Lang. Arts Standards.
Brief Overview:
1. Language
· Daily Oral Language (sentence editing, parts of speech review, sentence structure)
· Introduction of verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles)
· Writing revision and editing
2. Reading Literature
· Novels (The Outsiders, Devil’s Arithmetic, TheBreadwinner, Out of the Dust)
· Short stories from Literature and Language Book
· Literary terms
· Short reading passages during classroom activities
3. Reading Informational Text
· Research projects
· Passages provided by Mr. Lorenzoni
· Magazines
4. Writing
· Persuasive
· Narrative
· Expository
· Emotions
5. Projects
· Memory Books – Focus is on the writing process
· Holocaust Project – Culminates with Holocaust survivor, Martin Lowenberg, presentation