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8th Grade Language Arts
Assignments:
Agenda:
-Lit Circles (W)
1. Warm-up: Choosing new words
-Vocabulary Packet (TH)
2. Vocabulary Unit 5
-Spelling Test (TH)
3. Grammar
-The Giver ch 6-9 (T)
4. Literature
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interdependence excruciating carnage
reprieve requisitioned ominous
consciousness diminished petitioned
indescribable deliverance
nourishment
interdependence injection
acquisition
conspicuous unendurable
kinship
transmit contentedly
collective
tentatively receptacle
successor
frigid
prohibited
ointment
intimate
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Chapter 11, Lesson 1: Periods and Other End Marks
Periods:
-after a declarative sentence
-after almost every imperative sentence
-after an indirect question
-an indirect question reports what a person asked without
using the person's exact words
ex:
Direct- The aide asked, "Which route should I take sir?"
Indirect- The aide asked the general which route to take.
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Question Marks:
-after an interrogative sentence
Exclamation Point:
-after an exclamatory sentence
-after an interjection or any other exclamatory
expression
EX:
What! Where could they be?
Quick! Search the woods for spies!
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Other uses of periods:
-common abbreviations and initials:
sec.
P.O.
CD
MN
hr. -use a period after each number or
letter in an outline or list
Outline List
Early Communication
I. Visual Methods of
A. Sign Language Communication
B. Writing 1. Writing
II. Oral 2. Speaking
3. Sign Language
A. Speech
B. Song
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1. A voter asked the candidates what their priorities were
2. We won Hooray Happy Days are here again
3. The issues are sewers, schools, and sprawl
4. Mr. Thompson, the alderman, opposes any new taxes
5. Do you plan to get up and talk
6. Hey I still have the floor
7. I Issues facing the town in the next decade
A Sewer extensions
B School budget
C Suburban sprawl
D Taxes
II Leaders
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Assignment:
Assignment:
Level 1
¨ Page 252 parts A and B
Level 2
¨ Page 252 part B only
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Discussion
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WHO HAS THE POWER
Judicial
Branch
Executive
Branch
Legislative
Branch
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The Receiver
Committee of Elders
Committee head
committee members
family unit head-
mother/father
Family unit member
-son/daughter
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