Welcome to 8th Grade English!
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Incoming 8th graders, please email Ms. Brown at jbrown5578@hnomschool.org for an extra copy of the Summer Reading packet, which is due the first day of school, Tuesday, September 6, 2022.
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Homework
- Check your planner. As the first step of their daily "Do Now," students are given time at the beginning of every class period to write down their homework.
- You must have your purple E.L.A. binder and your Independent Reading Book in class every day.
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Upcoming Assessments
- Summer Reading packet due the first day of school: Tuesday, September 6, 2022.
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Resources & Reminders
* Pens must be used in English class (standard blue and black ink only; no erasable pens; no white-out). No pencils.
* All digital assignments for English class must be submitted through Google Classroom, not email. Please do not "share" documents with me through Google Drive. Instead, click the "Turn in" button on Google Classroom for each completed assignment.
* 8th Grade Parents/Guardians: To update my classroom’s parent/guardian contact information for the 2022-2023 academic year, please complete this Google Form with your current email address and phone number(s). -
Current Reading, Writing, & Language Instructional Focus
- Summer Reading: Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me
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"God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences" - Sylvia Plath
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8th Grade English Class News
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September 6
HNOM's Class of 2023 signed back-to-school cards for their middle school teachers - Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Carberry, and Ms. Pagliaro - and their new principal, Miss Ciminelli. While they welcomed Ms. Pagliaro and Mrs. Carberry to HNOM's middle school, they congratulated Miss Ciminelli on her new leadership position and thanked Mrs. Powell for being their science and homeroom teacher for the last two years! 8th graders placed the cards in colorful smiley face folders - deemed "Smile Files" - which will hopefully store all of the positive notes and artwork their teachers and administrators receive from students throughout the year!Read More -
June 10
As a small goodbye gift for her 8th grade homeroom class, Ms. Brown filled bags with inside jokes, ELA class memories, and punny keepsakes! Students' "Dear Basketball" mimic poems that they wrote in English class were also framed!Read More
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Annual 8th Grade Picture Book
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Videos
- TED-Ed Series: Verbal Irony
- TED-Ed Series: Dramatic Irony
- TED-Ed Series: Situational Irony
- Irony: "Teen Titans Go!"
- Grammar: "Victor Borge - Phonetic Punctuation"
- Figurative Language: "What is Personification?"
- Figurative Language: "What is Allusion?"
- Figurative Language: "What is Hyperbole?"
- Sound Devices: "Onomatopoeia"
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Websites
- iReady: Login Page
- Valley Stream Public Library
- Scholastic Book Clubs (Class Code: QYP89)
- Kellogg's "Feeding Reading" Program
- History Podcast: "Forever Ago"
- Biography Podcast: "Rebel Girls"
- Nonfiction Musings: "Wonderopolis"
- Reading: "Nonfiction Minute"
- Vocabulary: "Free Rice"
- Vocabulary: "Bean Bean Bean"
- Digital Tools: "Print Friendly"
- MLA: "Purdue Online Writing Lab"
- Pizza Hut's "Camp BOOK IT!" Summer Reading Program
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