Language Arts 8 A

说明

In this course, students will master the Standard American English writing style, allowing them to express their ideas clearly and effectively. Students will analyze the poetry of noted writers such as Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, and Jane Kenyon, Lessons focus on sentence structure, verb tenses, punctuation, and grammar rules and logic, formal letter writing, biographical essays, and creating a bibliography. Students will practice effective research techniques and prepare reports and essays  using strategies such as the Sign and Design Mind and Clustering to help form their ideas and develop stories and arguments. Through careful study of parts of speech, verb forms, and sentence clauses, students will be prepared to write at the high school level.  

Required Materials: 

• Poetry Speaks Who I Am by Elise Paschen – ISBN-10: 1402210744, ISBN-13: 978-1402210747 
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George; ISBN-10: 0064400581, ISBN-13: 978-0064400589 
• Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry by Mildred D. Taylor; ISBN-10: 0142401129, ISBN-13: 978-0142401125 
• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank; ISBN-10: 9780553296983, ISBN-13: 978-0553296983 

• My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier; ISBN-10: 0439783607, ISBN-13: 978-0439783606 
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt; ISBN-10: 0425182789; ISBN-13: 978-0425182789 
• The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark; ISBN-10: 0812972589, ISBN-13: 978-0812972580 
• That Was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton; ISBN-10: 0140389660, ISBN-13: 978-0140389661 
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck; ISBN-10: 014017737X, ISBN-13: 978-0140177374