Students in Ms. Swink’s eighth grade English classes are learning all about prepositional phrases and how they create interest in sentences. By identifying these phrases, which add interest to sentences, students find it easier to accurately locate the subject and verb of the sentence so that they can ensure subject verb agreement. Learning about the different aspects of sentence creation allows students to craft their writing with intention rather than haphazardly. Students will continue their grammar work with review lessons over verbs and verb phrases, word usage pairs, and organizational structure as they make their way toward the first grammar test in mid-October.
Students are also learning about the different elements of strong written arguments, and what makes them appeal to logic as opposed to emotion. They will be using this base knowledge of argument for the rest of the semester as they prepare to write an argumentative essay and take a reading assessment over a paired argument text.