COURSE ID: 8ELAA

8th Grade Language Arts A

Current 2024-25
Start Date: August 19, 2024
End Date: May 23, 2025
District: Lincoln County School District #1
Grade Levels: 8th Grade
Provider: Virtual Prep Academy of Wyoming

English 8 (1 of 2) explores analysis of literary and informational texts, including novels, short stories, myths, poems, magazine articles, and autobiographies. Readings include The Call of the Wild, short stories such as “The Lottery” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and infographics and videos to demonstrate concepts such as explicit and implicit information, theme, central idea, figurative language, grammar, usage, and punctuation. Writings include the planning, creating, writing, revising, and editing of a fictional narrative.