Grade 8 ILA
Mrs. Barbara Jessick
Third Trimester: (March 9th - June 9th)
Grammar
Chapter 6: Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
Chapter 10: Capitalization
Chapter 11: Punctuation
Chapter 8: Sentence Structure
Writing
Prepositional Phrase Poem
Literature
Selected Autobiographical and Biographical essays from text
Excerpt from Flowers for Algernon
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
Reading for Pleasure
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.
Weight Distribution for Grade 8 ILA - Third Trimester
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
List 1
a lot | absence | accidentally | accommodate | accumulate |
achievement | acquaintance | acquire | acquitted | advice |
advise | advisor | all right | aluminum | amateur |
among | analysis | analyze | annual | answer |
List 2
apparatus | apparent | appearance | appoint | arctic |
argument | ascend | athlete | attendance | balance |
beginning | belief | believe | beneficial | benefited |
Britain | business | calendar | candidate | canister |
List 3
category | cemetery | changeable | choose | chose |
college | commission | committee | comparative | conceivable |
congratulations | conscience | conscientious | conscious | controversial |
List 4
convenient | criticize | definitely | definition | describe |
desperate | dictionary | disappearance | disappoint | disastrous |
discipline | dissatisfied | ecstasy | effect | eighth |
List 5
eligible | eliminate | embarrass | eminent | encouragement |
environment | especially | essential | exaggerate | excellence |
exhaust | existence | experience | familiar | fascinate |
List 6
February | forehead | foreign | forty | fourth |
fulfill | genius | government | grandeur | grievous |
grief | gypsy | harass | height | heroes |
List 7
hindrance | humorous | hypocrite | immediately | incidentally |
incredible | independence | inevitable | intellectual | intelligence |
irrelevant | irresistible | jealousy | jewelry | judgment |
List 8
knowledge | laboratory | laundry | library | license |
lightning | liquefy | loneliness | lose | loose |
luxury | maintenance | maneuver | manufacture | marriage |
List 9
miniature | mischievous | misspell | mysterious | necessary |
neighborhood | nickel | niece | ninety | noticeable |
numerous | occasionally | occurred | omitted | opinion |
List 10
opportunity | optimistic | pamphlet | parallel | paralysis |
paralyze | partially | particular | pastime | performance |
permanent | permissible | perseverance | personal | personnel |
List 11
pharmacy | physical | physician | possession | possibility |
postpone | practically | precede | preference | prejudice |
principal | principally | principle | privilege | probably |
List 12
procedure | proceed | profession | professor | prominent |
pronunciation | pursue | quantity | quizzes | recede |
receipt | receive | recognize | recommend | reference |
List 13
reliable | remembrance | repetition | resistance | restaurant |
rhyme | rhythm | ridiculous | sacrifice | salary |
schedule | seize | separate | separation | sergeant |
List 14
severely | similar | sincerely | sophomore | specifically |
specimen | spontaneous | statue | studying | succeed |
succession | surprise | technique | technology | temperament |
List 15
temperature | tragedy | tries | truly | unanimous |
unnecessary | usually | variety | veterinarian | weather |
Wednesday | weird | woman | women | writing |
