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Welcome to 8th Grade Language Arts

50's

School Integration

Segregation/Integration

Songs of the 50's--doo wop

Dances

The Stroll lyrics

Commercials of the 1950's

many sites for commercials some with videos

60's

JFK speeches

Margaret Chase Smith

List of sites of Margaret C. Smith
Why Margaret C Smith wrote Declaration of Conscience Speech
Audio type of Leave It to the Girls --Senate
Her Dlaration of Conscience Speech
speech and audio
Margaret Chase Smith
general information

More grammar

Adjectives, blooms
definition and examples of sentences=
simple, compound, and complex sentences
Sentence structure vocabulary
advance nouns/ quiz
basketball game for nouns
video song on nouns-elementary
Review Nouns
noun game simple, but fast
simple plural noun games
subject /verb agreement game
a quick sentence quiz on types
correcting run-ons==sentence problems
click on brain to know definition
Nouns--all information
Starts with Nouns
definitions, examples, quizzes=all 8 parts of speech
verb definitions
quick verb game
main, helping, or contraction
quick verb game-tense
Adjective game
Definitions of types of sentences
exercises for fragments and sent.
sentence recognition game--levels
pronoun game to identify
participle good example
pronoun quiz 7 sentences
pronoun quiz --choice
advance grammar quiz with answers
verb tenses (time)
review of all tense--read
fun gorilla game on all 8 parts of speech speech
do noun and verbs; then do advance; continue to
simple punctuation game
brain area for each part of speech
youtube capitalization
captialization rules
capitalization games
grades 3-5
capitalization fact monster
interactive
Capitalization sentences/rules
Youtube capitalization-rules
simple diagraming sentences
simple diagraming go down some
basic sentence structure, run-on, fragment
Youtube run-on --only defiition-music
youtube run-on --only defiition-music

authors

S.E. Hinton, author many sources

clip art

microsoft clip art

grammar

Nouns, Verbs, etc
Adjectives and adverbs taboo game
List of cites for grammar
Adjectives clauses
Pronoun quizzes
Diagraming sentences
explains and practices
business letter format
friendly letter format
Review of subject and Predicate
simple sub/pred. and compound ones
definition of subject/predicate
definition sentence,compound, and complex sentences
short game to idenify subj./pred.
Simple definitions of subject/ predicate
Run-on sentences-identify
simple,compound,complex sentences
Definitions and quizzes
simple,compound,complex sentences
good definitions and examples
gerund
definitions and examples
gerund-verb form used as a noun
more definitions and examples
infinitives
with to and not with to
infinitives
definitions and examples
participle-definitions/examples
Rules
review run-ons, simple, and compound
examples and drill
run-on sentences
short, simple youtube
run-0ns--short, simple
4 examples
examples of run-ons
sentences to label
very simple with cartoonist figures
beginners
run-ons==spliced and fuseded
gives 5 ways to correct
write and correct run-ons
10 sentences with answers
sentences-complete, fragment, or run-ons
practice--read, go to exercise, then answers
active/passive

literary elements

MCSmith Museum
virual tour of her home

poetry

poets

Robert Frost

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Elizabeth Coatsworth
On A Night of Snow, poem
Elizabeth Coatsworth, life/poems
Elizabeth Coatsworth, summary

Edgar Allen Poe

African-American Artists, poets,etc.

Thomas dorsey, musician

David Walker

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

rubrics

poetry

Fun Activities

Constitution

Charles Dickens

Victorian England

My Hero Dr. King
poem and story of 3 boys

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Historical Places for CRM
Important Civil Rights landmarks
My Hero Dr. King

the Treaty of Versailles
14pt. plan and terms for Germany
Why did Hitler hate the Jews so much
Rise of Adolf HItler

Gandhi

The Holocaust

Auschwitz Concentration Camp
list of cites
Photographs of Auschwitz
individual pictures
Plans and timeline of Auschwitz
See it from the past and present
History of Auschwitz
Many selections
Memorial links for the Holocaust
Pictures of Memorials
Memorial in Berlin
Washington DC Holocaust Museum
take a tour
Philadelphia Memorial and others
See many memorial for ideas
VirtualTour of Auschwitz
pictures
Boston Jewish Memorial
pictures and explanation
Arrival at Auschwitz
The Rise of Nazism
1-page description
The Rise of Nazism in Germany
1-page description with more reasons
the Rise of Nazism in Germany-2
1-page -reasonsVersailles
The rise of Nazism--good
Hitler's Life and Quiz
Several parts/ quiz self-correct
Concentration Camps
pictures/videos
Kristallnacht
pictures and description
Kristallnacht--eye-witness
cattle car narratives
victims tell their stories
Kristallnaucht
description of violence
Luremberg Laws
Dachau picture and details
Dachau videos
Dachau--information/ pictures
pictures of Holocaust
Pictures/Videos of the Holocaust
History-Adolf Hitler-beginning to the end end
Anne Frank original movie
Kristallnacht
documents free thru Oct.
images of memorials
Japanese internment
Youtube video
pictures of Jewish family
family photos of Jewish family
Jackie Littlefield
pictures, life prior to Kristallnacht
UN Human Rights
1-30 rights

Darfur--genocide

Darfur genocide
What we can do about it.

Alcoholism==1

Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address
Myths and Truths of Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address place
Go to many links-picture tour
The Battle of Gettysburg
start at the top and read, next one,next one
History of the battle
Link to many parts of Gettysburg-pictures
Gettysburg Address quiz at bottom
Monuments of Little Round Top
Map of Gettysburg battle--monuments
Maine monuments
monument where Pres. Lincoln gave Gettysburg Address
Pennsylvania Monument, largest
Lincoln at Gettysburg
Gettysburg virual tour
you decide which part to tour

Work-cited; bibliography

Work-cited; bibliography formats

Norman Rockwell

A Christmas Carol

A Dickens of a Party
You're invited to a New Year's Party--character

Presidential speeches

Trees

Tree poems
short poems about trees and the poet
Famous poets on trees
Robert Frost, William Blake
Tree poem
Joyce Kilmer, short famous one
Quotes about trees
a large number of quotes
Songs about trees
Haiku and definitions
Pictures of Trees
great photos

Rock-n-Roll

The Stroll
Dick Clark and the Diamonds singing
The Hand jive
Song and dancers
The Madison
dance scene from Hairspray
The Jitterbug
great lesson

National Parks

National Parks

NECAP-release items

Internment of Japanese American during WWII

Short Stories

The Necklace--vocabulary
Guy de Maupassant

Dictionary

definitions, synonyms, antonyms, sentences
use to revise writing

Call It Courage

Tahiti-history -pictures
Where it is-map
Tahiti-history -pictures
Tahiti-youtube of beauty of the island
activities and ocean
Hikueru
pictures, history
Tahiti video
Factual information about the Reef
virual tour of the reef
Information on author-Call It Courage
myths of Polynesia

Call It Courage

Famous People Painting/Wiki Links

pictures of famous people

Click pictures w/biographies

Quotes

Root words, prefix, and suffix

Root word, prefix
List on chart of root words
youtube prefix/suffix
youtube list of roots, prefix and suffic
eXplains how words work
List of prefixes
Greek/Latin prefix, suffix,and root
One lesson at a time, 6 words
Olympic game for roots
3 games
3 games concentration etc
games 4th-6th grade level
choice of games 4th-12th grades

Make a book. non-tech

make different types of books

Vocabulary

individual testing units
http:///vocabtest.com/middle_school/8th_grade.php
6th, 7th and 8th Grade Grade voc.
analogies
many choices games
list of vocabulary games

Thesis statement

Prefixes, suffixes, and root words