Colorado Early Colleges Middle School
8th Grade Literature
What does it mean to be human?
This course seeks to promote and develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This class will emphasize learning how to think in new and creative ways, how to effectively communicate our ideas both spoken and written, and how to gather relevant information from various text types. This course will follow Colorado Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, and Communicating. Students will pursue answering the question, "What does it mean to be human?" as we navigate through short stories, novels, poems, plays, and nonfiction texts.
Please refer to the syllabus attached above concerning classroom rules, expectations, and units. If questions arise, please feel free to email Miss Smith directly.
Constructed Responses are a weekly assignment due every Tuesday except when specified in class. It is the student's responsibility to have a book of choice at all times. Attached, you will find the assignment requirements and questions. Also, if you would like to see an example Constructed Responses, please click here.
Poetry
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Analysis Sentence Frames
Tips on How to Read a Poem by Shmoop
Recitation Assignment : Recitation on January 24
Creative Writing
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Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Assignment Description and Rubric
Rough draft check due March 6
Final draft due March 27
(Honors final due March 6)
Twelve Angry Men
US Court and Jury System:
What happened to trial by jury?
Crash Course Court System (extra)
Honors Project due March 10
Rent the 1957 movie
The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil
Please view the files tab on Teams to find all of the pdfs of the graphic novel.
Essay Prompts and Expectations:
Honors Prompts English 8 Prompts
Outline templates (if you hand write the outline, please just include all of these points)
Honors Template English 8 Template
Handouts for writing from the year
Exit Interview
First Steps (returned to you on Teams chat)
*Please view Teams for the Sign Up Genius to schedule an interview time.
Fall Semester
Fallacies
At the end of the fallacy unit, we will have a multiple choice test over the definitions of each logical fallacy from our packet. You will also write one paragraph answering a prompt on fallacies and our society or on fallacies and rhetoric.
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*On the Resource page, you will find pre-made quizlets to help you study!
Close Reading Essay
