LANGUAGE ARTS 8C

Mon. May 11th – Fri. May 15th

1.     Read 20 minutes silently everyday.

2.     Read and respond to this week’s Common Lit assignments. 

a.      “Thank You Ma’am” (short story) DO NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS UNITL YOU’VE COMPLETED WRITING ACTIVITY   \

b.     “Middle School: Prologue & Act Two” (podcast transcript).  For the second CommonLit reading, you can read along with the actual Podcast audio at the following two Youtube links: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/449/middle-school/prologue  AND https://www.thisamericanlife.org/449/middle-school/act-two

 3.     Writing Activites: Please respond to this in a paragraph and submit to me via email.     

• Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyhYa9CQcQ and then respond to the following writing assignment: After watching this clip from the film adaptation of Langston Hughes’ “Thank You, M’am,” discuss how the characters interact in the video and how this compares to the text. Is the clip from the film adaptation an accurate representation of the text? Why or why not? (aim for a paragraph in length; 5-8 sentences)

4.     Complete ANY 2 of the attached options for Quickwrites this week (I have one listed for every day and while you are free to do it every day for 5 minutes (go for longer if you wish…but don’t go past 15minutes), aim for 2.  Feel free to share these with me via email, Microsoft Teams or on our weekly call. I encourage you to share your writing with somebody at home too.