USEFUL DOCUMENTS FOR 8th GRADE LITERATURE
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Lit Journal Stuff:
- Images of sample items for setting up your journal
- Enrichment guidelines
- Dialectical Journal instructions
- Dialectical Journal sample
- Budget Tour instructions & sample
- Budget Tour sample 2 (same chapter but different wording)
- Literary Terms assignment
- Literature Journal vocab directions
- A useful tool for making plot diagrams with or without notes
- Here are several plot diagram charts to download
Sites and Other Resources:
- Technical Writing resources for teachers and students
- Notable Sentences...for Imitation and Creation - collection of examples of great sentences, based on the book Mechanically Inclined
- Wordle.net - Make your own word clouds from text you select.
- Forvo.com - "the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language."
- Modern American Poetry - list of resources about modern American poets from the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
- Celebration of Women Writers - list of resources about American women writers from the University of Pennsylvania
- Block Posters - a site that helps you generate posters from an image you select and adjust. Note: any image you select must be 1 MB or smaller.
