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8th Grade Language Arts

 

Unit 5: Theme, Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions, Indirect objects,

Pronouns as Indirect objects, Writing: Technical document

                                                                                               

Theme: Language of Literature  p. 827 ff.

Story:

   1. "The Summer of the Beatiful White Horse." William Soroyan (LIT 839)

   2. "Stop the Sun." Gary Paulsen (LIT 48)

   3. "The Bet." Anton Chekhov (LIT 285; IR 128)   

 

Vocabulary:

"lum"               capricious                    incessantly                   posterity

"luc"                chant                           inert                             rapture

"fid"                descendant                  longing                         renunciation

"patr"               dry                             magnificence                stipulated

                        founder                      obsolete                       subject

                        haphazardly                persist                          theme

                        humane                      pious                            vagrant           

                        immoral

 

Grammar:

Pronouns objects of prepositions

Indirect objects

Pronoun indirect objects

 

Literature questions:

1. Using one of the stories read in class as an example, what is the author’s message

            about life?

2. Using one of the stories read in class as an example, what did the main character

            learn?

3. Using one of the stories read in class as an example, what is the difference between

            the subject of the story and its theme?

4. Can a story have multiple themes? Why or why not? Explain, give an example

            using one of the stories read in class.

5. Using one of the stories read in class as an example, how could a reader use one of

            the following elements to find a story's theme?

            title

            character

            setting

            plot

 

Writing: Write a technical document that explains a process or procedure (cf. LIT R56).