DIGITAL LEARNING
MAY 22, 2020 (FRIDAY)
QUARTER 4 GRADING IS CLOSED FOR ADVANCED CONTENT ELA.
FINAL GRADES WILL BE POSTED BY 5/21/2020.
HAPPY SUMMER BREAK 8TH GRADE STUDENTS.
YOU HAVE WORKED HARD AND I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!
STAY SAFE AND WELL THIS SUMMER.
DO YOUR BEST IN HIGH SCHOOL.
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ASSIGNMENTS FOR QUARTER FOUR
1. ELA Choice Board Board
2. Dover Beach and Book Burning Questions
3. Commonlit Responses for the 6 articles.
4. Commonlit Graphic Organizer
5. Education Essay (Complete 5 paragraph essay: How can education be used to create change?)
Type and Submit Essay on the Forms Link)
Use the information from the 6 commonlit articles to support how education creates change.
Use these additional resources to help you with creating your essay:
https://www.time4writing.com/writing-resources/writing-five-paragraph-essays-for-standardized-test/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwjmMtTVO1g
* Extra Credit (Quick Writes)
LOOKING FOR SOME FUN INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES TO SHARPEN YOUR ELA SKILLS
Click on the link and explore Scholastic Books and Articles:
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-12.html
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Instructional Unit Focus: How can education be used to create change?
During this unit, you will read six informational texts through the lens of our essential question.You will gather information from your readings in a graphic organizer, in order to help answer the essential question throughout the unit. At the end of the unit, you will answer the essential question in a research-based analytical essay. The skills covered include; synthesizing information across multiple texts, writing a research-based analytical essay, citing evidence from the text to support claims, writing fluid explanations.
Today's Instructional Tasks:
1. Commonlit Reading and Questions: Make sure that you have completed the questions for the 6 assigned articles
Remember to completely answer the "short answer" questions (utilize the RACE writing method).
2. Complete the graphic organizer based on these 6 commonlit articles: (see graphic organizer below)
"The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Chapters 1-7", "Behind the Native American Achievement Gap",
"The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian", "A Child of Slavery Who Taught A Generation", "Teaching Shakespeare in a
Maximum Security Prison" and "Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers"
SUBMIT THE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
3. Complete 5 paragraph essay: How can education be used to create change?
Use the information from the 6 commonlit articles to support how education creates change.
Use these additional resources to help you with creating your essay:
https://www.time4writing.com/writing-resources/writing-five-paragraph-essays-for-standardized-test/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwjmMtTVO1g
4. Log into your Membean Account. Continue with vocabulary practice. Click "Start Training" and work for 15 minutes for 3 days this week on Membean.
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PLEASE SUBMIT ALL PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS.
Finish: (Quick Writes, Dover Beach and Book Burning Questions, Choice Board Activities)
Log on to commonlit.org/enroll. Click LOGIN. Enter your username and password. Click "MY ASSIGNMENTS" tab.
REMEMBER TO SIGN UP FOR YOUR COMMONLIT STUDENT ACCOUNT
Download directions for assistance and please note the codes for each ELA class.
CLASS CODES:
AC ELA Period 1 5YVVE8
AC ELA Period 2 Z5RRG5
AC ELA Period 5 W5RRPK
AC ELA Period 6 EV44GP
AC ELA Period 7 3ZLL6B
DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT ACCOUNT SETUP
Download directions for assistance and please note the codes for each ELA class.
CLASS CODES:
AC ELA Period 1 5YVVE8
AC ELA Period 2 Z5RRG5
AC ELA Period 5 W5RRPK
AC ELA Period 6 EV44GP
AC ELA Period 7 3ZLL6B
DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT ACCOUNT SETUP
| commonlit_student_setup.pdf |
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REGISTER FOR YOUR MEMBEAN ACCOUNT TODAY
Visit: membean.com/enroll Enter Class Code Period One: G3FQ83G Period Two: G3FQFEN Period Five: G3FQD24 Period Six: G3FQBPT Period Seven: G3FQ9QY LOOKING FOR SOME FUN INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES TO SHARPEN YOUR ELA SKILLS Click on the link and explore Scholastic Books and Articles: https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-12.html 
PARENTS AND STUDENTS: Please click on the links below for information from Cobb County School District
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/index.html. 
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| digital_learning_week_one__choice_board_.docx |
| dover_beach_wk._1.pdf |
| dover_beach_wk._10001.pdf |
| book_burning_wk._1.pdf |
| lewis_hine__article_and_writing_prompt_.docx |
Quick Writes
Tuesday 3/17
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REMINDERS:
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Welcome to our classroom!
Advanced 8th Grade English Language Arts focuses on the four academic standards: speaking and listening, reading for all purposes, writing and composition, and research and reasoning. Our classroom resources will facilitate high level learning and appropriately match instructional methods with student need.
Our goal is to:
Advanced 8th Grade English Language Arts focuses on the four academic standards: speaking and listening, reading for all purposes, writing and composition, and research and reasoning. Our classroom resources will facilitate high level learning and appropriately match instructional methods with student need.
Our goal is to:
- Emphasize problem-based learning and inquiry
- Incorporate advanced research and technology skills
- Model and encourage intellectual struggle and high level academic discussion
- Support social and emotional needs
- Develop and practice creative thinking and creative problem solving skills with a variety of complex topics
- Incorporate critical thinking skills to successfully argue a point, justify reasoning, evaluate for a purpose, infer to predict and draw conclusions
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Books to Explore
Before We Were Free (Julia Alvarez) The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim (E. K. Johnston) Soldier's Heart (Gary Paulsen) Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Russell Freedman) Hero (Mike Lupica) The Once and Future King (T.E. White) The Killing Sea (Richard Lewis) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L'Engle) The Alchemist (Paul Coelho) |
