Literature
The following novels will be read by each 8th grade student this school year.
* Daily Vocabulary
* The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
* No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
* The Giver by Lois Lowry
* Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
* The Pearl by John Steinbeck
English
The following topics will be covered:
* weekly Journals
* Daily Oral Language (DOL)
* Parts of Speech
* Punctuation
* Writing- complete sentences, sentence patterns, paragraphs, essays
* Careers/ Research paper