Out with the old, in with the new--2011-2012 website

Please click below for the most current school year's website:

Language Arts 8

Follow me on facebook for 2011-2012: search "Mrs. Groom" from your own facebook page and like my page. (No, I am not your "friend" and I cannot see your facebook posts!)

Study for LA Final

Monty Python and the Witch Trial's Argument

Found Poems Written by Students

Poetic Lines

Poetic Lines

How to Create a Cube

Final Research Projects Due Monday, April 18 for LA8 and ASLA8

Cube party
Monday, April 18

In addition to evaluating classmates’ research cubes, we are celebrating a job well-done. After the evaluations, we will enjoy cube-shaped foods. Please bring in enough items for your class to share.

Be creative! The food needs to be shaped like cubes (cheese cubes, croutons, etc.) and should be store-bought if possible. Also, please do not bring any food with nuts or nut-products—we do have several with severe peanut allergies.

ASLA8 Indefinite Pronouns

ASLA8 Personal Pronouns

Pronouns! on Prezi

LA8 Compound Sentences Slide Rocket

Compound Sentence Prezi from class

Compound Sentences on Prezi

Absent? Needing extra study help?

Please use the study sites for third and fourth quarters that are posted below. The information is what we have been studying in class. We recently (March 11) had a content-area vocabulary quiz for third quarter; for fourth quarter, we will be adding more content-area words. Also, we are ending quarter three with compound sentences. Please click on the review from class to help you study. Remember that you can always study; you do not have to wait until the day before the test...really, people!

Quarter Three Content-Area Words for LA8 and ASLA8

Content-Area Terms for 2011

Quarter Four Content-Area Words for LA8 and ASLA8

Quarter Four Test: Content Words

Q3/4 Study Help for Complex and Compound Sentences

Plot Diagram

Click here for the interactive plot diagram that we did in class with the short story, "The Veldt."

ASLA8: Quote Sandwiches in Essay Writing

Download "Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots" Rap www.educationalrap.com video on savevid.com

Download "Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots" Rap www.educationalrap.com video on savevid.com

(1) Christmas Carol, A 1868 Ticknor and Fields, (2) A Christmas Carol 1843 from
University of Virginia Library, (3) Little Book About A Christmas Carol by L. Rosewood Hooper, (4) A Christmas Carol from Online Literature Library, (5) A Christmas Carol - A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol from The Project Gutenberg, (6) Christmas Carol from Stormfax, Inc., (7) Christmas Carol from Aesop's Fables, (8) A Christmas Carol from ClassicReader, (9) A Christmas Carol from The Literature Network, (10) A Christmas Carol from LiteratureClassics, (11) Christmas Carol from Litrix Reading Room, (12) A Christmas Carol from The University of Adelaide Library