Mrs. Brown

Eighth Grade Literature Book

Sources should be cited in research papers using the correct citation format. This website will assist students in citation formatting: http://cm.oslis.org/MLACitations/elementary/

Works cited page sample.

Plagiarism checker

Paper Rater

Diagramming Sentences -1

Diagramming Sentences -2

Diagramming Sentences -3- use with Smart Express

Online Grammar Book

Reading Counts

Students are required to take one "grade-level-appropriate" Reading Counts quiz per month starting in September. Parents are asked to approve subject matter content of books that come from higher grade level reading lists.

Quiz Score (10 possible) Grade Earned 10 correct 100/A 9 correct 93/A 8 correct 86/B 7 correct 79/C 6 correct 72/D 5 correct 65/D 4 correct 58/F 3 correct 51/F 2 correct 44/F 1 correct 37/F

All written reports should be formatted in Modern Language Association (MLA) style. A reference guide is available at this website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ format. Directions are also available here.

Scholastic file describing the Elements of Literature (click here)

Latin Roots Quiz Friday March 23 Word List

Latin Roots Quiz Fri Feb 10

Jan 30 Latin Roots - quiz on Feb 3

ped-foot

For 9/23=hab, hib-hold; log, logy-word; mar-sea; mech-machine; migr-depart; miss, mit-send

agr - field, aqu - water, art - skill, aud - hear, ante - before

cap - head, chron-time, cis,cid-cut, commun-common Review of the Cs

corp-body, cycl - circle or ring, dict-say or speak, fug-flee

Mrs. Brown's Quia Page

Student Monday - Thursday Schedule

(words)

Lit Vocab 13

Lit Vocab 12 Quiz on Jan 13

Lit Vocab 11

Lit Vocab 10Study activity

Lit Vocab 9Review Here

Lit Vocab 8

Lit Vocab 7

Lit Vocab 6

Spelling City practice test

Lit Vocab 5

Lit Vocab 4

Great American Authors compare and contrast Twain and Steinbeck

The Pearl Oral Report

Compare/Contrast Essay Rubric

Note card rubric

Shakespeare Research Paper

Sample rubric for digital story/video

Storyboard rubric

October Sky by Homer Hickam pre-reading poster Rubric

Research Paper

Sept 6 Short Story Rubric

Wrinkle in Time - Q1 Novel Report Rubric

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
(Report Rubric Link)

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break, Lensey Namioka
(Report Rubric Link)

Adobe Reader is required to open the rubric links. The free reader can be downloaded at: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

 

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Q1-A Wrinkle in TimeQ2-October Sky by Homer Hickam,Q3-Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Q4-The Pearl by John Steinbeck