8th Grade Language Arts will teach and refine skills in reading and writing in accordance with district and New Jersey State Standards. The Reading component of this class will teach and develop skills such as analysis and close readings of both informational and fictional texts, strategies for short constructed response questions, identifying elements of story structure and using context clues to infer meaning. Students will read a range of texts including short stories, full novels, fiction, non-fiction, autobiographical writing, poetry and informational texts.
The writing component of 8th Grade Language Arts will enhance and perfect the writing ability of our students. In this class, students will gain experience in many different forms of writing, including but not limited to: Argumentative Writing, Persuasive Writing, Instructional Writing, Speculative Writing, Explanatory Writing, Expository Writing and Research Paper Writing. The students will be responsible for maintaining a detailed writing collection as well as knowledge and familiarity in grammar and vocabulary.
Students scores are graded according to the West New York Middle School Grade Scale which is as follows:
A+ 100 - 97
A 96 - 93
A- 92 - 90
B+ 89 - 87
B 86 - 83
B- 82 - 80
C+ 79 - 77
C 76 - 73
C- 72 - 70
D 69 - 65
F 64 - below