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Our Units of Study:
In 8th grade, students will be following the curriculum designed by Lucy Calkins for our reading and writing units. They will be arranged as follows:
Reading Units of Study
1. Reading across genres and
recognizing archetypes and allusion
2. Fantasy and dystopia book clubs
3. Critical nonfiction research
4. Reading for high school
5. Poetry
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Writing Units of Study
1. Literary essay
2. Fantasy writing
3. Position papers
4. Investigative journalism
5. Poetry immersion and innovation
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You will be reading forty books this year. This includes books that you read for LA class and books that are read aloud in any class.
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You will be reading from a variety of genres in order to explore books you might not ordinarily read and to develop an understanding of literary elements, text features, and text structures.
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Books must be at least 80 pages.
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Any book you read that is more than 300 pages long will count as TWObooks.
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Red Hot Root Words
Year end review part 1 (A to H)
Year end review part 2 (I to V)
Why Study Roots Words?
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Roots are the building blocks for most words in the English language.
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Knowing what the roots mean can help you figure out the meaning of words they're in.
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Learning a few the meaning of just words with the roots can help you unlock the meaning of exponentially more words.
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For example, you know the words unicycle and unibrow both have the root "uni" and both have to do with one. You know that UNILATERAL has to do with one as well so you can begin to figure out its meaning.
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