Ms. Claire M. Turpin
8th Grade
Language Arts
Ms. Claire M. Turpin
8th Grade
Language Arts

Past due: Portfolio ready copies of:
Movie Review
Film Review
Writing Focus:
Expository Essay - If I Won a Million Dollars
Persuasive Essay
Grammar Focus: -
Bell work: Imitating the Grammar of the Greats – Killgallon PowerPoint
Sentence Variety and Sentence Structure: simple, compound, complex, phrases, sentence combining
Usage: Slang, subject/verb agreement, noun/pronoun agreement, connotation/denotation
Grammar: Parts of Speech
Conventions: capitalization, punctuation
Figurative Language:
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Hyperbole
Poetry Focus:
Go Inside Poem
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