Language Arts 8 Week 4: August 31-September 4, 2015

Georgia Performance Standards ELAGSE8L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. ELAGSE8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. ELAGSE8RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. ELAGSE8RL3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Do NOW: Daily Grammer Practice (DGP)—Lesson 4 Monday: Identify each word as noun (common, proper, possessive), pronoun (interrogative, possessive, nominative, objective, demonstrative, indefinite), verb (helping, linking, action, tense), adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction (coordinating, subordinating, correlative), or interjection. the dance was on friday it was fun

Homework: Due Thursday: Vocabulary Lesson 2—Exercises A-FDue Thursday: Vocabulary Lesson 2—Exercises A-F Test FridayTest Friday 1.amass 2.apt 3.bleak 4.concoct 5.craze 6.impressionable 7.incompatible 8. obsession 9. partition 10. presumptuous 11. repulsive 12. shortcoming 13. solicit 14. stagnant 15. unfounded

Raymond’s Run Pay attention to the vocabulary at the bottom of the page. Students will read and discuss Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara on page 3.Students will read and discuss Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara on page 3.

Do NOW: Daily Grammer Practice (DGP)—Lesson 4 Tuesday: Identify sentence parts including subject (complete and simple), complete predicate, verb (transitive or intransitive), direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, appositive or appositive phrase, and prepositional phrase (adjective or adverb). the dance was on friday it was fun

Do NOW: Daily Grammer Practice (DGP)—Lesson 4 Wednesday: Identify each clause as independent or dependent; identify the sentence type as simple, compound, or complex; and identify the sentence purpose as declarative, imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory. the dance was on friday it was fun

Do NOW: Daily Grammer Practice (DGP)—Lesson 4 Thursday: Write out this week’s sentence and add capitalization and punctuation including end punctuation, commas, semicolons, apostrophes, underlining, and quotation marks. the dance was on friday it was fun

Do NOW: Daily Grammer Practice (DGP)—Lesson 4 Friday: Use this week’s sentence to fill in the diagram structure your teacher gives you. the dance was on friday it was fun