St. Joseph School

Grade 8 ILA
Mrs. Barbara Jessick
Third Trimester: (March 9th - June 9th)

Chapter 6: Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
Chapter 10: Capitalization
Chapter 11: Punctuation
Chapter 8: Sentence Structure

Writing
Research paper
Students will be researching famous people in history.
Meeting the following due dates is essential to creating a high quality project and avoiding a last minute rush. This project spans both the second and third trimester. The remaining due dates listed are those that are included in the third trimester only.

Timeline of Due Dates:

March 8th - 15 Fact note cards
March 16th - 30 to 50 Fact note cards
March 18th - Outline for research paper
March 22nd - First draft of paper
March 24th - Second draft with revisions
March 29th - Final Paper due

Personal Memoir: Details to follow at the end of April

Students are encouraged to read for pleasure. Classroom charts for both 8A and 8B are posted in the classroom. Please encourage your child to read.

35% Tests and Quizzes
40% Performance
10% Classwork
10% Homework
5% Final Exams

Please note that there is one ILA grade for each marking period. It is a combination of grades earned in grammar and literature classes.

Spelling

Spelling quizzes will be given on a bi-weekly basis, generally on Thursdays.
There will be four spelling quizzes this trimester. Spelling words are listed below for your convenience.
Dates:
List 11 - March 30
List 12 - April 8
List 13 - April 15
List 14 - April 29
List 15- May 6

Frequently Misspelled Words

a lot	absence	accidentally	accommodate	accumulate
achievement	acquaintance	acquire	acquitted	advice
advise	advisor	all right	aluminum	amateur
among	analysis	analyze	annual	answer

apparatus	apparent	appearance	appoint	arctic
argument	ascend	athlete	attendance	balance
beginning	belief	believe	beneficial	benefited
Britain	business	calendar	candidate	canister

category	cemetery	changeable	choose	chose
college	commission	committee	comparative	conceivable
congratulations	conscience	conscientious	conscious	controversial

convenient	criticize	definitely	definition	describe
desperate	dictionary	disappearance	disappoint	disastrous
discipline	dissatisfied	ecstasy	effect	eighth

eligible	eliminate	embarrass	eminent	encouragement
environment	especially	essential	exaggerate	excellence
exhaust	existence	experience	familiar	fascinate

February	forehead	foreign	forty	fourth
fulfill	genius	government	grandeur	grievous
grief	gypsy	harass	height	heroes

hindrance	humorous	hypocrite	immediately	incidentally
incredible	independence	inevitable	intellectual	intelligence
irrelevant	irresistible	jealousy	jewelry	judgment

knowledge	laboratory	laundry	library	license
lightning	liquefy	loneliness	lose	loose
luxury	maintenance	maneuver	manufacture	marriage

miniature	mischievous	misspell	mysterious	necessary
neighborhood	nickel	niece	ninety	noticeable
numerous	occasionally	occurred	omitted	opinion

opportunity	optimistic	pamphlet	parallel	paralysis
paralyze	partially	particular	pastime	performance
permanent	permissible	perseverance	personal	personnel

pharmacy	physical	physician	possession	possibility
postpone	practically	precede	preference	prejudice
principal	principally	principle	privilege	probably

procedure	proceed	profession	professor	prominent
pronunciation	pursue	quantity	quizzes	recede
receipt	receive	recognize	recommend	reference

reliable	remembrance	repetition	resistance	restaurant
rhyme	rhythm	ridiculous	sacrifice	salary
schedule	seize	separate	separation	sergeant

severely	similar	sincerely	sophomore	specifically
specimen	spontaneous	statue	studying	succeed
succession	surprise	technique	technology	temperament

temperature	tragedy	tries	truly	unanimous
unnecessary	usually	variety	veterinarian	weather
Wednesday	weird	woman	women	writing