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8th Grade Language Arts

Unit 6. Nonfiction, Appositives, Linking verbs, Autobiography

 

Nonfiction: Language of Literature pp. 101 – 105

 

Stories:

1. "The Great Rat Hunt." Laurence Yep (LIT 106)   

2. The Diary of Anne Frank. Frances Goodrich (LIT 447; IR 176 - not complete story)

3. “Harriet Tubman.” Ann Petry (LIT 756; IR 298)

                                                                       

Vocabulary:

"fin"                 diary                improvise                loathe              personal essay

"bene"             disgruntled       inarticulate               memoirs           persuasive essay

"mal"               disheveled       indignantly                mug                 primary sources

appalled           dispel             indomitable              mutinous          rationalize

autobiography    eloquence     ineptitude                narrative           ravage

barricade         essay              informative article     news stories     remorse

biography        expository       instill                        nonfiction         reserve

borne               fastidious        interview                  oppression       sullen

brusquely         feature stories    journal                  ostentatiously    vile

cajoling            foreboding      jubilation                  pandemonium   wallow

conspicuous     fumigate          letter                        perpetual          zeal

 

Grammar:

Appositives

Nouns of direct address

Linking verbs

 

Questions:

1. Using a story we read for this unit, discuss whether the story is biographical or  autobiographical.

2. Using a story we read in class, tell how a biography could read like a novel.

3. Using a story we read in class, discuss the difference between narrative and expository writing.

4. Using a selection we read in class, discuss the difference between

a news story and a feature story.

5. Explain the difference between literary nonfiction and informative nonfiction.

 

Writing: Autobiographical incident Language of Literature pp. 174-178