Web Links

• Literature Text Book
  • This is the textbook website. Choose your chapter collection.  Internet Keywords are throughout the book for extra online information.  An example is (Keyword: LE7 8-3) Projects and Activities. We use Elements of Literature (Second Course) by Holt for 8th Grade.
• Hawkins County Language Arts Links
  • Links for language arts from our county website.
• Eighth Grade Reading Benchmarks  
  • This is a list of the tested items on the state TCAP tests for 8th grade reading.
• Pacing Guides for Reading/Language Arts/Writing
  • Areas to study for each 6 weeks is listed
    • Reading 1st 6 weeks - pages 3-5 plot, point of view, author's purpose, main idea, genre, vivid words inductive/deductive reasoning (research p.3 distinguish primary and secondary sources and their reliability)
    • Reading 2nd 6 weeks - pages 9-10 Literary elements, figurative language, text features, cause/effect, multi-meaning words (research p.8 most appropriate sources)
    • Reading 3rd 6 weeks - pages 15-17 Characterization, theme, moral dilemma, inferences, directions, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, (words eg. accept, except) (teamwork p.12-13)(research p.15 select most focused topic)
    • Reading 4th 6 weeks - pages 21-22 Propaganda/sterotyping, types of conflict, time periods, culture (research p.20 analyze/intrepret data from graphs, etc.)
    • Reading 5th 6 weeks - page 25 Analogies/fact-opinion/sequence, sound devices, drama (foreign words & phrases p.24) (oral presentation p.24)
    • Reading 6th 6 weeks - page 27 (Research p.30-31 formal paper)
• Internet 4 Classrooms
  • Links are provided here to practice and learn about TCAP tested items.