May 2, 2021

Grade 8 

Brainstorm your own childhood for memorable events such as the childhood events of Scout and Jem -

• getting in trouble in school,
• telling scary stories
• trespassing on a neighbor's property

Remember moments from your own childhood that stand out; list.

Write a few notes on each - then choose three events you will write about  -

• LIKE the writing of the house/neighborhood/ person, you will write in PRESENT TENSE, as if it is happening now.
  
• Use active verbs
• UNLIKE the writing of the house/neighborhood/person  - YOU are in this storyl
• Use first person pronouns as necessary.  
  
• Use dialogue with proper conventions of quotation marks.
• Use at least one literary device - metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia
• Use sensory language - sight, sound, touch, taste, smell

Draft of one event due Wednesday, 5/5

Derivatives Numbers open book quiz due Tuesday 5/4

Spelling Unit 9 test Wednesday 5/5

Unit 9 Vocabulary test Thursday 5/6

Grade 6

• Writing scene and description due 5/5 
• Unit 9 Vocab test 5/4
• 6-2 Religion Chapter 11 test 5/6

Grade 7

• Write a definition of a literary device in which you use the literary device you are defining to define it!
• Unit 9 Vocab test 5/4