8th grade Language Arts Course Syllabus


ALL YEAR
Expository writing (unit 5), Capitalization, Punctuation, and Sentence Combining (units
19-21)

1ST NINE WEEKS
Unit 1- Personal Writing
Unit 2- The Writing Process
Unit 8- Subjects, Predicates, and Sentences
Unit 9- Nouns
Unit 10- Verbs
Poetry
Figurative speech- (Similes, metaphors, personification, rhyme, sound devices, etc)
Literature circles

2ND NINE WEEKS
Unit 13- Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
Unit 12- Adjectives and adverbs
Unit 11- Pronouns
Unit 19-Capitalization
Unit 20-Punctuation
Research paper (will vary according to teacher which nine weeks this will be completed)
Suspense stories
Flowers for Algernon

3RD NINE WEEKS
Unit 16- Subject-verb agreement
Unit 14- Clauses and complex sentences
Unit 15- Verbal
Unit 17
Propaganda
TCAP review
Anne Frank
4TH NINE WEEKS
Unit 6- Persuasive Writing
Literature circles
Diagram sentences
Oil spill
Novel