Mrs. Haun's 8th Grade ELA Assignments

Shark Tank is a popular TV show that gives people the opportunity to make their dreams come true and become successful business people. These people are called entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs who enter the “Shark Tank” have a great new idea that they believe will help solve a lot of problems in the world and/or want a mass amount of people to know about their product/idea/business. They present or “pitch” their idea to the sharks. These sharks are wealthy business people who have already become successful based on their own inventions/innovations. The sharks then decide if they want to invest, or spend money of their own, in this brand new idea/product in the hopes that it becomes successful and they can make money of their own . In this unit you will be starting a business, with a new invention or innovation of your own.

This is to be worked on after you have completed your Key concept work sheets.

Today, in reading, you will work on analyzing short stories in this ixl. please make sure that you have your headphones and ixl logins. If you finish the ixl on short stories there is a second one that you can work on that focuses on narrative point of view.

follow the link and work with your table on this nearpod that focused on building narrative writing skills.

Over the next few lessons we will be reading short passages from some well known literary works; such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. In order to understand and participate in these lessons to the best of your ability you will need to know some key vocabulary terms in addition to the terms we have covered previously.



STANDARDS: CCSS.ELA.R.L.8.1, 8.2, 8.3

This passage, and the attached questions, is your assignment for our e-learning day on September 30th. You will need to read the passage and respond IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
This can be done through Kami or on paper that you will turn in when we return to school on Monday October 3rd.
If you have any questions you can ask them in a private comment on this assignment or email me. Any e-mails sent between the hours of 8:30 and 3:30 will be answered within 30 minutes.

This practice will be your e-learning assignment for 9/30. Work on this skill, that we worked on on class on Wednesday,  until you have a score of 80% or for 15 minutes, whichever comes first.

If you have any questions you can ask them in a private comment on this assignment or email me. Any e-mails sent between the hours of 8:30 and 3:30 will be answered within 30 minutes.

 We will focus on building on our knowledge of the parts of speech in improve our understanding and usage of English conventions.


The worksheets that will be handed out in class are also attached to this assignment. If you need to do these online open the attached file using Kami to be able to work on them.

We recently finished reading a murder mystery with no murder in Ellen Raskin’s The Westing Game. Using some of the deductive reasoning skills we used as we discussed the clues and made predictions throughout that novel you will be reading a passage and then deciding for yourself if the death in the passage was an accident or murder. For this lesson you will  be identifying evidence, creating a claim, and writing an argumentative paragraph with this murder mystery activity.