8TH GRADE READING

Instructional Focus for this Week: Irony, Point of View, Genre Characteristics, Conflict

Unit 5: Media Literacy

Activities and Assignments: Final Exam - Wednesday 19, 2010

8TH GRADE LA/ALA

Instructional Focus (IF) for this Week: Poetry Terms

Unit 5: Our Dream to Overcome: Poetry Study and the Art of Research

Activities and Assignments: Final Exam - Wednesday 19, 2010              Poet's Shoes Web Quest and Recitation - Thursday 20, 2010 (link below)

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson78/poetshoes4.htm

We will be in library Monday and Tuesday for research and writing, but you should spend significant time outside of class working on research, too.  The research process will double as review for Wednesday's final, and the completed research report will be turned in Thursday, the day we will hold the Poetry Coffee House.     

 Final Exam: Poetry, Research, and Parts of a Sentence

The final exam will cover the poetry terms used throughout this last unit.  You have charts of the various terms in your "Wonder Books," and I have uploaded a practice worksheet on this website to review.  Further review of the terms can be found at poets.org, but remember, you should only spend time on the terms we've discussed in class or on assignments.  I've uploaded the full list to this site, all of the terms aren't on the exam, but you are responsible for nothing them as they've been used extencsively in this last unit.