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Grade 8

• Communication & Collaboration

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• Reading: Comprehension

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• Writing

  • 8.W
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Indiana ELA Standard: 8.W

Students compose writing and presentations for various genres which demonstrate a command of English grammar and usage through the writing and research processes.

Writing Compound Sentences

Students work with subjects, predicates, and conjunctions to write compound sentences.

Writing Haiku in Primary

Your youngest students will learn to write Japanese Haiku poetry.

Improving Shakespeare’s Repetition

Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.

Geosynth (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Geosynth? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Chronosonarium (Greek and Latin)

What on earth is a Chronosonarium? Break apart the Greek and Latin roots, figure out what it should mean, then invent what it describes.

Greekymon Studies – Round 3

What might a creature named “Aquacornus Rex” be like?

Greekymon Studies – Round 2

What might a creature named “Hypermnemonicus” be like?

Greekymon Studies – Round 1

What might a creature named “Ursolunascope” be like?

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Passive to Active Voice

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.

Studying and Remixing “The Raven”

Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Common English Words From Other Languages

Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!

Greek and Latin Dinosaur Names

Let’s create a new dinosaur using Greek and Latin stems!