Mrs. L. Edwards
Grade 8 Language Arts
Welcome to an exciting year of exploring reading and writing.  You will also develop speaking and listening skills.

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Fourth Marking Period

Announcements
Students are currently reading informational texts in order to build their background knowledge.
Congratulations to Kevin who has earned Student of the Month.
Power School grades will be updated the second and fourth Friday of every month.

Required Task
Literary Analysis Essay
This assignment will be done in Writing Workshop with the aid of mentor-text.

• draft #1 due 5/21/2015
• draft #2 due 5/26/2015
• final draft due 5/28/15

Performance Task
Self-chosen task based on your arts emphasis
Guidelines will be distributed last week of May

State-wide Smarter Balanced testing: April-May 2015

SRI (reading level): early June (exact date TBD)


Useful Web Sites:

Vocabulary.co.il (vocabulary)

Quizlet.com (flashcards to study for tests/quizzes)

khanacademy.org (videos on math lessons)

https://owl.english.purdue.edu (online writing lab)

http://connection.naviance.com/betsyross (college and career readiness)

collegeboard.org  (college readiness)