PS 192 Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts

450 Masten Ave.

Buffalo 14208

Grades: 5-12 • Hours: 7:50-2:30

Principal: Darren Brown

716.816.4220

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8th Grade Students

This Month, we will be studying literary elements and poetic devices, such as alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, etc. Please check assignment files for PowerPoints containing information and assignments

The 8th Grade ELA class has thus far studied and reviewed:

WORD CHOICE
MEMOIRS
SETTING
CHARACTERIZATION
CHARACTER MOTIVATION
PLOT

RISING ACTION
CLIMAX
FALLING ACTION
RESOLUTION

CAUSE & EFFECT
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

For homework, students are asked to keep a READER RESPONSE JOURNAL. They are to write entries of 5 questions Monday through Thursday and turn it in each Friday.

The questions are found in the FILES section below, if additional copies are needed.

9th Grade Students

9th Grade students will begin exploring writing with controlling idea. We will also begin a foray into the age of heroes!

9th grade students have thus far reviewed:

ELEMENTS OF NON-FICTION

Some of the selections we've read are:
"The Sniper"
an excerpt from Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

9th Grade students are to be completing their first research paper on "The Irish Potato Famine" the assignment and articles can be found in the FILES section below.

Related Files

Reader Response Questions (docx file - 16kb)
8th Graders are to select from these questions to write entries in their "READER RESPONSE" journal notebooks each week.

Potato Famine Paper (docx file - 14kb)
Guidelines for the English I Research paper

Potato Famine Article 2 (docx file - 22kb)
Additional Resource for English I Paper

Great Irish Famine (doc file - 28kb)
Article for first research paper.

Irish Americans (doc file - 46kb)
Article for English I Research paper

File she smells.pptx (pptx file - 80kb)

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