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ELA Textbook received pic attached Jump to Today Grade 8 English/Language Arts and Composition Course Description  Grade 8 English/Language Arts and Composition Students receive integrated instruction focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students continue to study the history and development of English vocabulary; grade level vocabulary is explicitly taught. Students continue to compare different types of writing as well as different perspectives on similar topics or themes. They evaluate the logic of informational texts and analyze how literature reflects the backgrounds, attitudes, and beliefs of the authors. They read and respond to fiction selections, such as classic and contemporary literature, historical fiction, fantasy or science fiction, mystery or adventure, folklore or mythology, poetry, short stories, and dramas, and nonfiction selections, such as subject area books, biographies or autobiographies, magazines and newspapers, various referen...

Figueroa, Gabrielle 8:05 AM (11 minutes ago) to  Damion ,  Stephanie ,  Carlo ,  me Hi Mr. Fiorletta, I do not believe that we will be requiring Cesar to do summer school as we do not need to provide home instruction for summer school?  Still, this is a question for Mr. Frye and Mrs. Nieves as I cannot make these administrative decisions.  

p. 872 1. Clara is upset with officers at Fredricksburg because the wounded need to be taken care of better. 2. According to Clara's diary, the officials at the War Department didn't beliee Mr. Wilson at first because the officers coaxed in the War department. 3. In the play, Claraa Barton helps Captain Neal's wounded brother. 4. Draw conclusions. Real Life Person/ His or her action / My conclusion "dapper captain"/quartered with the owner of the finest mansion in the town/did not want to share house with the dirty soldiers. Clara/returned with carloads of supplies/works hard, helps the injured Mr. Wilson/Assured War department officials/ He was convincing 5. Compare and contrast: Historical drama and diarySimilar: Both have characters, names, descriptions and actions Different: Diary entry her words. Historical drama from a writer. 6. Analyze: From this I can tell it was hard for a woman to work even if she is right. All men bosses. p.873 Conjunctiv...

1. Clarify. Julia says it is a "trial" to introduce her family because she is Americanized. They have foreign names, dress, language and behavior. 2. When Mauricia was born, she got the American name Maureen. 3. Julia's names and nicknames Julia: Both Julie, Hoo-lee-tah, Jules, Hey Jude, Alcatraz (1 bad one)  : to Family and friends To Strangers: Julia Altagracia Maria Teresa Alvarez Tavares Perello Espaillat Julia Perez Rochet Gonzalez 4. Examine Connections  Review grew up with some of the same embarassment I have with family. Further travels. 5. Alvarez refers to mispronunciation of her and her family's names as a changing of their names because it shows the difference between the people who say it. 6. Interpret a personal essay. Stories/Anecdotes: Name mispronunciations p.806 Thoughts and Feelings: "Suffered most whenever my extended family attended school occasions." p.810 Informal Word Choices: Beans and Pepperoni and Alcatraz gradua...

Page 798 1.Eleanor Roosevelt was sad and lonely as a child. 2. She helped society. She helped her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt who got parayzed and died while he was president.She gave time to the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) She worked on laws to get children out of factories and into schools. She worked in charity kitchens. 3. She was her husband's eyes and ears when he was president. She got involved in politics herself. 4. Timeline most important: Her dad getting cisk, her mother dying, her school, work to First Lady. 5. Claire Booth Luce quote: Comfortable people were rich who made money from workers and children in factories. 6. Cause and effect Cause / Effect / Effect Eleanor's father told her to help people who were suffering. She worked with poor children, She helped the red cross raise money. Eleanor was teased and made fun of. She helped veterans and worked for the United Nations both involve people outside usual citizen life. 7. I agree...

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11PWTnRJL5RjaVqRUF6BwOzlWbTpbzIii?usp=sharing Reconstruction 1. Much Southern land went to hospitals and railroads. Farms lost from war damage and slave loss 2. Confederate money worthless after the Civil War 3. Reconstruction 1865-1877 to slavery and inequalities 4. Lincoln 10 percent plan to readmit states with 10 percent swearing allegiance to Union 5. Lincoln unable to implement. He was assassinated in 1865. 6. President Andrew Johnson gave White South free hand. No role to blacks in politics. 7. Congress fought mass killing of ex-slaves and black codes. Seized control from Pres. A. Johnson 8. Black codes essentially suppressed freedom, replacing slave codes. 9. 3 amendments added to Constitution: 13) Abolished Slavery 14) Citizenship and equal rights and protection former slaves. 15) Right to VOTE for former slaves. 10. Union helped South during Reconstruction by insuring laws were followed in South. 11. Carpetbaggers ...

Flannery, John   < jflannery@metscharterschool.org > Thu, Jun 6, 9:21 AM (5 days ago) to  Baudlet ,  Kuadir ,  Alexander ,  Alejandro ,  Chiduzie ,  me ,  Dana ,  Destiny ,  Daytan ,  Emmanuel ,  George ,  Karrie ,  Khalil ,  Lucas ,  Madison ,  Marcus ,  Robert ,  Raven ,  Savanna ,  Yessica ,  Zyale ,  Marilyn Reading link: https://www.ducksters.com/ history/civil_war/ reconstruction.php   Questions and activity: 1. What happened to much of the land in the South during the Civil War? 2. What happened to Confederate money following the Civil War? 3. What was Reconstruction and how what years did it last? 4. Describe Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction. 5. Why was Lincoln never able to implement his plan for Reconstruction? 6. How did President Andrew Johnson feel about Reconstruction? 7. What Congress t...