8/13-8/17 Middle Grades ELA
- Aug 13
- 2 min read
Homework: Complete pages 6-7 in your Grammar worktext. Friday: The Scholarship Jacket
Use your annotation system/guide as you read.
Then answer:
1) What is the most important event in the story?
2) What can you infer about Martha's character? Give one detail from the story that supports your inference.
3) Why do you think Martha's grandfather responds the way he does?
4) What does the story suggest about fairness, hard work, or doing what is right?
5) What specific detail from the story best supports your answer to # 4?
Literary Journal:
Answer the following in 1-2 paragraphs. Describe a time when someone's words affected you or another person. What does the experience demonstrate about the power of words?
Monday: Read page 8 in your grammar book. Answer the following:
What is the difference between a simple subject and a complete subject?
What is the difference between a simple predicate and a complete predicate?
Read:
The Fun They Had
Use your annotation system/guide as you read.
Then answer:
What is the most important difference between Margie and Tommy's education and the education described in the old book?
What can you infer about how Margie feels about her mechanical teacher? Give evidence from the story.
Why does Margie become interested in the old kind of school?
Why does Margie think about the children in the old school at the end? What does this reveal about her?
What does the title, The Fun They Had, suggest about Margie's understanding of the old-fashioned school?
Literary Journal:
Answer the following in 1-2 paragraphs. Which type of education do you think would be better for Margie: her mechanical teacher or the old-fashioned school? Explain your answer using at least ONE specific detail from the story.