8th grade Language Arts

Mrs. Davenport's Class

August 31, 2010 and September 1, 2010

Homework:  Purpose for writing worksheet.  "Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom" page 128.  Books were assigned today to take home!

September 2/3, 2010  Harriet Tubman Quiz Sept 9/10!!!!

Homework:  Character motives worksheet.  Re-read "Harriet Tubman:  Guide to Freedom" page 128.

September 7/8, 2010

Homework:  Re-read "Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom" page 128.  Study vocabulary and selection for quiz on Sept 9/10.  

September 9/10

Homework:  Read Poems.  "Paul Revere's Ride" page 300.  "Columbus", "Western Wagons", "The Other Pioneers" page 142.  "O Captain! My Captain!" page 261.  Quiz on POEMS September 17/21.

September 13/14

Homework:  Simile Worksheet, "Paul Revere's Ride"

September 15/16

Homework:  Themes Worksheet  Quiz on Poems September 17/21.

September 17/21

Homework:  Read "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" page 4-12.  Complete Context worksheet.

September 22/23

Homework:  Conflict and Resolution worksheet.

September 24/27

Homework:  Study for quiz next class on "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"

September 28/29

Homework:  Read "Choice" page 362, "Ellis Island" page 368, "Achieving The American Dream" page 370, and "The New Colossus" page 372.

September 30/October 1

Homework:  Selections worksheet.  Return signed grade sheet.

October 4/5

Homework:  Epithet and connotation of words worksheet.