| Sara
Breeze - 6-8 Language Arts; 6/7 Crew Teacher; Board Member
- sarab@schoolcraft.org
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6/7/8/CREW NEWS:
6/7/8 Language Arts Notes
Language Arts 8th Grade Homework Syllabus for Ancient
Civilization Expedition
8th Graders are reading many mythological stories and completing
the assignments that accompany the stories as homework.
Many of these stories come from the ancient Greek writer, Homer,
who chronicled 'The Illiad and the Odyssey'.
The following is a list of the stories the 8th graders are reading. (For
each story, there is a homework assignment that follows it on
a hand-out given to the students each week they receive the story.)
DUE DATES: Stories and Assignments are given
on TUESDAY. The home work for the stories is DUE the following THURSDAY
Feb. 9 - 11: Odysseus
and the Cyclops/Circe and Odyssesus
Assignment - The Log of Odysseus summarizing
one or more of his perils.
Feb. 16 - 18: Eros
(Cupid) and Psyche
Assignment - Vocabulary,
It Happened Like This questions, Famous (love) sayings
Feb. 23 - March 2: 3
Tales of the Trojan War: Paris & Helen, Achilles Avenges
Patroclus, & The
Wooden Horse
Assignment -
After each story, choose ONE question from 'TALKING ABOUT THE
STORY' and write a paragrpah explaining the question chosen.
March 2 - 4: Pandora
Assignment -
Writing Corner: If Only I Had Known
March 9 - 11: Orpheus
Assignment - Choose
either Level 1 - Poetic Thoughts or Level 2 - A Second Chance
for Orpheus
March 16 - 18: Theseus
and the Minotaur
Assignment -
Choose either Activity 2(Create a Maze) or Activity 3 (Prepare
a sports broadcast.)
March 23 - 25: The
Theft of Persephone
Assignment - Exercise
Activity 1 - Creating mythology riddles of your own.
April - 8th graders will be focusing
on their language arts Chamber Book Project. They will
be learning the meanings of 100 to 200 prefixes, suffixes, and
roots; AND they will also be preparing for the 9th grade writing
assessment - which is given to students soon after they enter
9th grade.
FIELDWORK INFORMATION FOR 6/7/8:
Friday, March 5th we will be traveling to the Palucci
Space Theater in Hibbing, MN. We will be leaving
from the Turtle River Town Hall at 8 AM and
returning to the Turtle River Town Hall at 4:15
PM. ALL students will need a bag
lunch and beverages to last the entire day. We ask that
each student contribute $6.00 to cover the costs
of admission.
The shows we view at the space theater will give us background
knowledge to learn how ancient cultures looked at the night sky
for our “What’s Up, Didaktorus?” expedition.
There will be no alternative schedule for 6/7/8th graders at
Schoolcraft Learning Community that day. Please contact your
student’s crew teacher if you have any questions or concerns
~ Thank you, Sara Breeze
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