08th Grade English

The 8th Grade Language Arts Boxed Set contains all 10 student worktexts, plus a comprehensive Teacher's Guide. The Language Arts LIFEPAC curriculum builds a solid foundation in communication skills - the key to success and lifelong learning in any subject.

English 8 has 124 lessons divided into 11 chapters. The first two chapters deal with sentence elements and sentence structure. Objective complements, elliptical sentences, and compound-complex sentences are introduced. Chapter 3 teaches concepts about capitalization and punctuation. Dashes, parentheses, and brackets are introduced. Chapters 4-10 focus on the parts of speech. These chapters re-enforce what has been taught in earlier grades and introduce retained objects, dangling participles, and relative adverbs. Problem words are discussed, and there's plenty of sentence diagramming. Chapter 11 deals with using reference helps and the public library. Composition lessons introduce persuasive arguments and teach effective sentences, paragraph construction, proofreading, outlines, story writing, sentences, paragraph construction, proofreading, outlines, story writing, and poetry at deeper levels. Over one-third of the book deals with composition. A booklet of 42 worksheets offers extra practice. The sheets may be copied as needed in teaching this English course. The test booklet includes chapter tests and a final test.

This resource book draws on classic literature to illustrate the use of 40 basic literary terms. Divided into sections on figurative language, poetic language, and literary techniques, the book covers hyperbole, metaphor, irony, imagery, dialect, plot, alliteration, onomatopoeia, allusion, conflict, and lots more! The first page of each lesson includes a definition of the term and one or more samples from grade-appropriate classic literature. The next two pages challenge students to identify and understand the term and to use it on their own.