Eighth Grade English and Language Arts
This is an outline of the material that we will be exploring in 8th grade ELA. As well as reading the novels, students will also hone their writing skills throughout the year in the different units.
- Call of the Wild
- The Other Animals
- To Build a Fire
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- theme essay on human ignorance/arrogance
- Call of the Wild
- Argumentative Essay
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Tell-Tale Heart
- Narrative Point of View: Some Considerations
- The Ransom of Red Chief
- irony essay
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- discussion of perception versus reality
- The Allegory of the Cave
- Best-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutiny
- A Million Little Pieces
- students created a television commercial
- compare/contrast essay
- Zoo
- The Blind Men ad the Elephant
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Flowers for Algernon
- The Story of Prometheus
- What's in an Inkblot? Some Say, Not Much
- argumentative essay
- Flowers for Algernon
- Frankenstein
- students will create a progress report for characters
- Pandora
- Flowers of Algernon
- opinion essay
- create a works cited page for research project
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Sugar Cane
- Part One of Sugar Changed the World
- Part Two of Sugar Changed the World
- Part Three of Sugar Changed the World
- Louisiana Sugarcane Farmers
- Part Four of Sugar Changed the World
- argumentative essay
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Autumntime
- Conservation as a National Duty
- Requiem for a Nest
- Birdfoot's Grampa
- A Parable of Sauntering
- explanatory essay
- The Conversationist
- Roosevelt, Friend of the Birds
- John James Audubon and the Natural World
- American Flamingo
- Bookstand: Audubon's Birds and Words
- The Calypso Borealis
- research task