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Grade 8

• Language

  • 8.L.1.b
  • 8.L.1
  • 8.L.2.a
  • 8.L.2
  • 8.L.2.b
  • 8.L.2.c
  • 8.L.3.a
  • 8.L.4.b
  • 8.L.4.c
  • 8.L.4
  • 8.L.5.b
  • 8.L.5.c

• Reading: Informational

  • 8.RI.1
  • 8.RI.4
  • 8.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 8.RL.1
  • 8.RL.4
  • 8.RL.5
  • 8.RL.9
  • 8.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 8.SL.1
  • 8.SL.4
  • 8.SL.6

• Writing

  • 8.W.1.b
  • 8.W.1.c
  • 8.W.1
  • 8.W.2.c
  • 8.W.3.a
  • 8.W.3.b
  • 8.W.3.d
  • 8.W.3.e
  • 8.W.4
  • 8.W.9
  • 8.W.9.a

CCSS ELA Standard: 8.L.1

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Parts of Speech Party – Gift

How many different ways can we use the word “gift” in a single paragraph? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Care

How many different ways can we use the word “care”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Fruit

How many different ways can we use the word “fruit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Change

How many different ways can we use the word “change”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party: Introduction (Check)

How many ways can we use “check” in a paragraph? And can your students spot when it’s a verb, or a noun, or an adjective?

Create A Civ: Capital City

Every great capital is part geography, part human design. Research real ones, then build your own from scratch.

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Famous Structures

The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House — group them, pick the best from each group, then design your own.

Create A Civilization: Currency

What type of currency will your civilization use? What symbols will be on it? Why are they significant?

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Changing Coordinating Conjunctions

What happens when we switch out a “but” with a “so”? An “and” with a “for”? How can such tiny words make such big differences?

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

The Personalities of Rocks

What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?

Parts of Speech Party – Well

How many different ways can we use the word “well”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Thanks

How many different ways can we use the word “thanks”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Parts of Speech Party – Limit

How many different ways can we use the word “limit”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

Create A Civilization: The River

The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now… your river!