8th ELA Review

How should students interact with each other in our ELA classroom?

• with respect

• with positive attitudes

• with compassion

• with decency

Complete sentences must have a

• subject

• adjective

• predicate

• adverb

Per the EMS PBIS Program, students who do not follow school/classroom rules, will recieve

• Lunch Detention

• Lunch and Learn

• After School Detention

• ISS or OSS

• Parent/Student/Teacher Conference

Which supplies are you required to bring to ELA class each day?

• Fully charged Chromebook

• Notebook Binder

• Pencils & ink pens

• Calculator

The Author's Purpose is the reason why an author would put a scene or idea in a writing.

• True

• False

A Simile...

• Compares two different things, without using the words “like” or “as.” 

• Gives human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.

• Is a great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment.

• Compares two different things, using the words “like” or “as”

An Allusion is...

• A great exaggeration, often unrealistic, to add emphasis to a sentiment.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.

• Comparing two different things using the words "like" or "as".

• A reference to a preexisting person, work, event, or well-known piece of pop culture.

"Born in the USA", an album by Bruce Springsteen, ________ 30 million copies worldwide.

• were sold

• sold

• have been sold

• solded

Choose the detail that best supports the claim: The school day should not begin before 8:30 A.M.

• Only about fifteen percent of U.S. high schools start at 8:30 A.M. or later.

• Students who get more sleep report having longer attention spans.

Which line from the poem supports the theme?

• "And yet if all the leaves my name could cry"

• "And yet the happy pulse of life is slow,"

• "Above the trembling marshland I would go"

• "A longing for some peaceful, gentle place,"