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8th Grade Language Arts

Agenda:

1. Warm-up: Choosing new words

2. Vocabulary Unit 5

3. Grammar

4. Literature

Assignments:

-Lit Circles (W)

-Vocabulary Packet (TH)

-Spelling Test (TH)

-The Giver ch 6-9 (T)

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interdependence

reprieve

consciousness

nourishment

acquisition

kinship

collective

successor

prohibited

intimate

excruciating

requisitioned

diminished

indescribable 

interdependence 

conspicuous

transmit

tentatively

frigid

ointment

carnage 

ominous

petitioned

deliverance 

injection

unendurable 

contentedly 

receptacle 

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Chapter 11, Lesson 1: Periods and Other End Marks

Periods: -after a declarative sentence-after almost every imperative sentence-after an indirect question-an indirect question reports what a person asked without using the person's exact wordsex: Direct- The aide asked, "Which route should I take sir?"Indirect- The aide asked the general which route to take.

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Question Marks:-after an interrogative sentence

Exclamation Point:-after an exclamatory sentence-after an interjection or any other exclamatory expression

EX:What! Where could they be?Quick! Search the woods for spies!

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Other uses of periods:

-common abbreviations and initials:sec.P.O.CDMNhr. -use a period after each number or

letter in an outline or list

OutlineEarly CommunicationI. Visual

A. Sign Language B. Writing

II. OralA. SpeechB. Song

List

Methods of Communication1. Writing2. Speaking3. Sign Language

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1. A voter asked the candidates what their priorities were

2. We won Hooray Happy Days are here again

3. The issues are sewers, schools, and sprawl

4. Mr. Thompson, the alderman, opposes any new taxes

5. Do you plan to get up and talk

6. Hey I still have the floor

7. I Issues facing the town in the next decadeA Sewer extensionsB School budgetC Suburban sprawlD Taxes

II Leaders

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Assignment:Assignment:Level 1

¨ Page 252 parts A and B

Level 2¨ Page 252 part B only

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Discussion 

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WHO HAS THE POWER

Judicial Branch

Executive Branch

Legislative Branch

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The Receiver

Committee of Elders

Committee head

committee members

family unit head-

mother/fatherFamily unit member

-son/daughter