Homework Assignments
8th Grade Literature



Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
August
18-22
Introduction Expectations

Star Testing
Rules/
Procedures
READ magazine
25-28
Warm-up # 1;
Folder set-up;
Equity cards
Warm-up # 2;
LA Pretest Part 1
Warm-up # 3;
LA Pretest Part 2
Warm-up #4;
Read a drama
aloud

September
2-5

Warm-up # 5;
Library check-out;
Textbook Scanning
Warm-up # 6;
'Story Elements' notes
and Powerpoint
Warm-up# 7;
Read "Broken
Chain"; quiz
Warm-up # 8;
'Plot' graph for
"Broken Chain"
8-12
Warm-up # 9;
Characterization Notes;
Read & Discuss "Flowers
for Algernon"
Warm-up # 10;
Read & discuss
"Flowers for Algernon"
Find examples of Indirect
Characterization
Warm-up # 11;
Read & discuss "Flowers
for Algernon";
Warm-up quiz Thursday
Warm-up Quiz 1;
Read & discuss
"Flowers for Algernon";
Vocabulary due Friday
Warm-up # 12;
Read & discuss
"Algernon";
Turned in
vocabulary
15-19
Warm-up # 13;
Read & discuss "Flowers for Algernon"
Warm-up # 14;
Library check-out;
Finish "Algernon" Part I
Warm-up # 15;
"Algernon" Part I quiz; Folder update for check on Friday;
Read & discuss "Algernon" Part II
Warm-up # 16;
Read & discuss "Algernon";
Folder check tomorrow
Warm-up # 17; Folder check;
"Algernon" vocab. practice
22-26
Warm - up # 18;
Review vocabulary sentences; Read "Algernon"
Warm-up # 19;
Read & Discuss "Algernon";
Vocabulary Bingo

Warm-up # 20;
Read & discuss "Algernon"
Warm-up # 21;
"Algernon" final test; "Algernon" video
Warm-up #22;
"Algernon" video
29-3
Who Moved My Cheese?
Warm-up # 23;
Library check-out
Warm-up Quiz # 2;
"Algernon" video
Warm-up # 24;
Warriors Don't Cry
prereading notes

October
6-10
Warm-up # 25;
Read & discuss Warriors Don't Cry
Warm-up # 26;
R & D WDC
Wam-up # 27;
Vocabulary Quiz;
R & D WDC
Warm-up # 28;
R & D WDC
Warm-up # 29;
R & D WDC
13-17
Warm-up # 30;
R & D WDC
Warm-up # 32;
Library check-out;
R & D WDC
Warm-up # 33;
R & D WDC
Warm-up # 34;
Warm-up Quiz # 3;
Figurative Language Notes
Independent Reading
20-24
FL Day 2;
R & D WDC;  Review Questions
FL Day3;
WDC review questions;
R & D WDC
FL Day 4;
WDC Vocabulary assignment; R & D WDC
FL Day 5;
R & D WDC

27-31
FL Day 6:
R & D WDC
FL Day 7;
R & D WDC;
Library check-out
FL Day 8;
Explore test
FL Day 9;
R & D WDC
Purple & White Game;
Dance
November
3-7
FL # 10;
R & D WDC
No School for Students
FL # 11;
R & D WDC
FL # 12;
R & D " Stop the Sun"
Veterans' Day Program at SCHS
10-14
Ripley's Field Trip
No School for
Students
FL # 13;
WDC story map & character - Venn diagram;
Review for test
FL # 14;
WDC Final Test;
Ernest Green video
FL # 15;
Ernest Green video
17-21
FL # 16;
Ernest Green video
FL # 17;
Ernest Green video
FL # 18;
FL Practice # 1
FL # 19;
FL Quiz # 1
Extreme Explorer magazine
24-28
FL # 20;
Re-do and make-up day
FL # 21;
Library check-out;
Make-up & re-do;
Independent reading



December
1-5
FL # 22;
Poetry notes
FL # 23;
Mood/Tone notes;
Brainpop;
Folder update
FL # 24;
Mood/Tone;
Read & discuss The
Cremation of Sam McGee
FL # 25;
Complete Tone/Mood of Sam McGee"; Read & discuss "O Captain! My Captain!"

8-12





15-19





January
5-9





12-16





19-23





26-30





February
2-6





9-13





16-20





23-27





March
2-6





9-13





16-20





23-27





30-3





April
6-10





20-24





27-1





May
4-8





11-15





18-22




25-29




June
1


Last Day


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