Welcome to Maternity's Junior High Language Arts Program
6th * 7th * 8th

Language Arts curriculum will strive to increase your child’s proficiency in English, Vocabulary, Speech, and Writing. The use of laptops in the Junior High Classroom has been a GREAT SUCCESS. The students are readily able to access current assignments, take notes, do research, complete assignments, and check both weekly and daily assignments given by their teachers.

I have been an educator for many years and have a Bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University and a Master’s degree from Olivet Nazarene University. I enjoy reading, writing and traveling. I am very fortunate to have my grandchildren not only near me, but at Maternity as they share in the joys of a Christian education.

Assignments for: March 8th-12th

  We are looking forward to a very exciting year as we have made some changes in our junior high Language Arts curriculum and I feel that it will be very beneficial to the students.  We have a whole language program that will include: English, Writing, Literature, Accelerated Reader Program, Novel reading, and  Literature based vocabulary.  Another new addition is a study hall for all students built into their daily schedule.  This should definitely help in getting a lot of their homework done before the end of the day.  Please remind your student to CHARGE their computers every evening so that they will be useful throughout the day. 

Our third and final  trimester continues with Language Arts/grammar  and Literature/novel study. The students have done an excellent job their first and second  trimester and need to continue to work hard  and complete their assignments on time.  In English we will continue to work from out textbook, continue with composition writing and create some poetry.  In Literature, we will continue our novel study and our vocabulary study will be literature based. Students will continue with their required AR reading on an independent basis, each trimester they are required to have 20 AR points and may also get an additional 20 points for 100 extra credit points in their literature grade. 

See 8th grade Language Arts and 8th grade Literature for specific assignments.

 

 
 

8th Grade

Language Arts Daily Oral Language

 8th Grade Language Arts

English:  Special project:  Creative writing

150 Year Celebration Project - the students have been assigned a specific time period and need to come up with a project for their group.  Group 1 - 1920-1930, Group 2 - 1930-1940, and Group 3 -1940-1950.  They have been given a list of topics to choose from or they may select one of their own.  Students may have 1 partner if they so desire but the student must also be in their time period. Their focus for this project is Education and what has occurred during these time periods.  The students  also have a list of suggestions on their computers.  Be Creative!!!

English: We are back in the English textbook on Chapter # 5 - Capitalization and Punctuation.  Assignments will be given in order of study from the text. Assignments should be written down DAILY!! We will be working on assignments from the text, worksheets, quizzes, and a chapter test for this unit.

The students just finished a quiz on kinds of sentences and interjections. We are starting on proper nouns and proper adjectives.  Students will be given assignments from the textbook and worksheets.  Quizzes will be given over material studied and a final chapter test taken at the end of Chapter # 5. 

 

  

Students have their Houghton Mifflin English Textbook that you should see for daily assignments. 

wk1:

No DOL this week

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8th Grade

Language Arts Daily Oral Language
See Literature Section. 
wk1: Literature text
wk2: Literature text
wk3:
wk4:  
Vocabulary

 Literature based vocabulary study.  Vocabulary words are taken from each chapter's reading or from the current novel we are studying.

  
Mrs. Miller
 

8th Grade

Literature

Authors' party on March 19th - 12:45 to 1:15!!!
Look for your special invitation to this event.

Plot, Character, Setting, and Motivation

Story: Literary Terms

Flowers for Algernon

Pgs. 188-215

We are reading this story in class together and you should see this book in the evening.  They receive questions via computer, along with their vocabulary list for definitions and original sentences and a summary for each section of progress reports.   This is due after EVERY section assigned. 

We are in the new trimester and already time is flying by.  Midterm is March 26th.  The students need to be putting forth their best effort this last trimester.  Keep Reading for those AR points!!

wk1: Literature text
wk2: Project reports # 8,9, & 10. 
wk3:  Summaries, vocabulary, and
wk4:  worksheets.

Vocabulary

  Literary terminology:  Students need to be keeping a notebook of literary terms and also vocabulary from the stories that they will be reading. 

Questions, vocabulary, and Chapter summary work is sent by email to all students.  They need to be checking their computers for Literature assignments.

 
Mrs. Miller
 
 

I try to e-mail daily assignments to all classes and students who are absent may easily get this information. I am always available by phone: School (815) 933-7758. After school (3-3:30) or by e-mail lmiller@MBVM.org.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns about your child’s academic progress. I look forward to helping your child prepare for the challenges of Junior High and beyond. At Maternity, our main goal is for your child to experience a Christian education that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

Yours in Christ,

Mrs. L. Miller