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Stacy Floyd
Eighth Grade Language Arts Teacher
Course Description: Eighth-grade Language Arts is a two-hour block that combines language, literature, writing and speaking. It focuses on the expansion of each student’s oral and written communication skills as the development of their reading skills. The literature expands on the connection between the reader and writer, helping students understand the relationships that shape their literature and their lives. The written emphasis is on the growth of each student’s ability to revise his or her own work and to recognize the quality of that work. To aid in that development, students will study and utilize the six-writing traits that are the basis for the evaluation of the Kansas Writing Assessment.
Units: Although students will be writing on many topics throughout the year, there will be several major units that will include reading, writing, vocabulary and oral presentations.
- We All Need Somebody to Lean On
- From Generation to Generation
- Tales of the Strange and Mysterious
- Sneaky Tricks and Whopping Lies (Mark Twain Unit)
- The American Hero: Myth and Reality (You may be asked for help on this one, too!)
- A Holocaust Unit that includes The Diary of Anne Frank
- Outsiders novel
- The Pigman novel
- Animal Unit: Call of the Wild novel
Weekly Activities: We will work on the following assignments throughout each week.
- Journal writing
- Review key components for state assessments –literary terms, text structures, text types, etc.
- Vocabulary
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me:
Stacy Floyd
Eighth Grade Language Arts Teacher
floyd@usd230.org
913-592-7324