Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year in 8th grade ELA/Reading/Writing workshop
This year, our 6th grade ELA/Reading students will focus on at least eight of our Tennessee Essential Learning objectives including, but not limited to, summarizing and forming inferences based on text evidence; determining connotative and denotative meanings of unfamiliar and multi-meaning words using context clues/key words, parts of speech and word roots; composing a variety of texts such as explanatory/informative, narrative, and argumentative, each of which will include a strong thesis statement and at least three pieces of evidence that connect to and support the thesis; and correctly forming and using verbs in in their written products to demonstrate perspective.