8th Grade ELA
This course is designed to help 8th grade students further develop their reading, writing, grammar, speaking, and listening skills. Students will study novels, drama, poetry, short stories, articles, and essays.
Finding Reliable Information
Claim Statements
Argumentative Writing
Logical Reasoning
Quiz #1 (Auto-graded)
Finding the Central Idea
Citing Evidence
APA Citations
Annotating Informational Texts
Author's Purpose and Point of View
Quiz #2 (Auto-graded)
Assignment (Instructor-graded): Argumentative Essay
Main and Helping Verbs
Linking Verbs
Grammar Quiz #1 (Auto-graded)
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Idenitfying Verbs
Prepositional Phrase
Grammar Quiz #2 (Auto-graded)
Passage: Plastic Footprint
Passage: Swarm Robotics
Passage: Animation
Passage: Success and Failure
Passage: Ice Music
Introduction to Poetry
Thomas Hardy
Rhyming Scheme and Sound Devices
Figurative Language
Oscar Wilde
Ballads
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Analysis (Continued)
Insider Perspective
Victorian Poetry Quiz
Poetry Assignment (Instructor-graded): Poem Analysis
Advanced Vocabulary #1
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Quiz: Advanced Vocabulary (Auto-graded)
Vocabulary Worksheets - Advanced Vocabulary