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E-Mail: jdee@1000islandsschools.org
Grading Policy:
Homework...20%
**Homework
assignments are due on the assigned date at the beginning of class. Late homework will not be accepted. Students may not go to lockers to get
homework. Having homework in class is
part of being prepared.
Weekly
Quizzes...15%
**Quizzes on
Spelling and vocabulary or reading assignments.
Quick
Writes...10%
**Short answer
writing assignments
Notebook...15%
**Notebooks
will be checked FOUR times during the year.
One time per quarter.
Writing...20%
Tests/Projects...20%
Course Outline...Students will be reading and
participating in the following units:
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Short Stories
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Magazines/Author’s Purpose
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ELA 8 Test Practice
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Out of the Dust
by Karen
Hesse
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Witness by Karen
Hesse
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Milkweed by Jerry
Spinelli
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
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Hope was Here
by Joan Bauer
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Biographies/ Research Project
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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Weekly Spelling and Vocabulary
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