1. Language Arts 8 Kelli Precht 924-3897 kprecht@madeiracityschools.org Kara Foley 924-3801 kfoley@madeiracityschools.org

2. Daily Activities  Starter  Vocabulary/Grammar  Independent Reading  Literature  Writing

3. Writing Assignments  Journals  Narrative  Research  Persuasive  Compare/Contrast  Literature Response  Creative  Poetry

4. Units of Study  Peer Pressure  Identity  Friendship  Tales of the Strange & Mysterious  Non-Fiction  Revolutionary Era  Freedom  Loyalty  Holocaust / WWII  Endurance of human spirit  Faith

5. Novels / Larger Works  The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton  Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation, Vol: I by M.T. Anderson  Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson  My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier  Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson  Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare  Night by Elie Wiesel  All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein  The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender