Grade 8
- Notebook rubric in a page protector
- Cover divider (meaning the first divider in your notebook) should have the following information printed on it:
Name
Grade 8
2007-2008
Xavier Charter School
- After the cover divider, in a page protector, the "Grade 8" handout with "Course of Study" on the other side
- Time line in a page protector
- "The Successful Student" in a page protector
- "Class preparedness"/"Study Question" and "Entry Assignment" rubrics in a page protector
- "Independent study"/"Poster" rubrics in a page protector
- Divider labeled "Literature"
- "Elements of Fiction and Literary Terms" handout: to date defined through "characterization"
- Outline done in class on short stories with sections to date:
Short story
Irony
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Tragic irony
Situational irony - October 19 paragraphs done in class for "An Honest Thief"
- October 18 study questions for “An Honest Thief”
- October 17-18: Margin sheet(s) for "An Honest Thief"
- October 17: Study questions answered in class for “God Sees the Truth But Waits” plus vocabulary: troika, samovar
- October 16: Margin sheet for “God Sees the Truth But Waits”
- October 16: Study questions answered in class for “The Bet”
- October 15: Margin sheet for “The Bet”
- October 11: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 10
- October 10: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 9
- October 9: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 8
- October 4: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 6
- October 2: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 5
- October 1: Study questions for Animal Farm Chapter 4
- September 17 paragraph: Why do we study classical literature?
- Handout: “An Honest Thief”
- Handout: “God Sees the Truth But Waits”
- Handout: “The Bet”
- Handout: "Roman Reading"
- Grade level reading list signed by both parent/guardian and student, in a page protector
- Divider labeled "Poetry"
- Divider labeled "Vocabulary"
- October 18 “An Honest Thief”
moor-cock
passport
tedious
humdrum
veritable
ennui
forlorn
tippling
wretched
dumb
edifying - October 15 “The Bet”
discrepancy
incongruity
a priori
philosophy
pluck
sirens
posterity
contempt - October 3 Animal Farm vocabulary:
pretext
blithely
breeches
gaiters
manifestly
knoll
dynamo
unintelligible
aloof
procure
articulate
cunning
tactic - Our character vocabulary to date:
respect
self-discipline
responsibility
honesty
integrity - Our Word of the Week to date:
benevolent
cajole
chasten
desecrate
digress
effervescent
- Divider labeled "Grammar"
- Grammar worksheet: Review 1/7
- Grammar worksheet: 5/6
- Grammar worksheet: 3/4
- Grammar worksheet; 1/2
- Grammar outline written in class with these headings to date:
articles
nouns
pronouns
verbs