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Mr. Gonzalez's Students
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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

    docx 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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