Mrs. McDonald’s Grade 8 English Course Overview
2008-2009
TEXTS: Writer’s Choice Grammar & Composition (Grammar Text—Rental)
Charlotte
Bronte. Jane Eyre. (Abridged
Version)
Harper
Lee To Kill A Mockingbird
Jim
Stovall The Ultimate Gift
Composition
Resource Book
Vocabulary
from Latin & Greek Roots-Book II
THEME: The theme of the literature taken this year
will be prejudice and women in literature.
MATERIALS: 2
folders for handouts PC tablet
pens pencils Your thinking caps
COURSE
OBJECTIVES: By the completion of the course, each of you should possess a working
knowledge of reading
techniques for a short story, play and novel,
implementation of grade level vocabulary, a basic
understanding of grammar, and the ability to produce a
clear, unified and coherent essay on
a literary
topic.
METHODS
OF ASSESSMENT: Grades will be based on
quizzes, major tests and regular formal essays and revisions.
Vocabulary, grammar study, reading quizzes, and class participation also
figure into
course results along with written reports and
oral presentations.
QUARTER
ONE Grammar Review
(Parts of Speech-Parts of
a Sentence)
Discussion/Writing
assignments from Summer Reading (Black Like Me and Anne Frank Remembered)
Short
Story Unit
Reading/Discussion/Writing
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
QUARTER
TWO Grammar-Continuation
of Quarter One
Female
Author Power Point Project & Presentation
Reading/Discussion/Writing
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
CHRISTMAS
NOVEL The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
QUARTER
THREE Grammar-Verb
Tenses/The Phrase/The Clause
Discussion
The Ultimate Gift
Poetry
Unit
Reading/Discussion/Writing
A Raisin in the Sun by
QUARTER
FOUR Grammar-The
Clause/Verbals
Reading/Discussion/Writing
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Novel
Study Unit and presentation
Grammar
Evaluation
Vocabulary
and Composition Study will be included in each quarter also.
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