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Group Presentation/Skit for the benefits of good listening.

The holocaust collage contains 6 items: a value statement, a description of the literary work that had the greatest personal influence, a quote from that book, 4 selected pictures, one holocaust poem, & one survivor's story.

Grade 8 students will create a 15 page ibook for grade 5 students based on the information learned about the Holocaust. The goal is that the 8th grade students will deepen their understanding of the Holocaust by finding an effective and appropriate means to communicate this event in history utilizing narration, illustration, fable, allegory, poetry, quotations and other literary techniques studied and practiced in class.

You are expected to design a costume, appropriate to character and time period, for one to five of the main characters of the play and write a supporting paragraph for each costume explaining why you created this costume for the character.

Rubric for skit presentations

Students read a book and review the book using persuasive language to indicate the reader's opinion about the book. The reviewer summarizes the ideas of the book and recommends or does not recommend this book based on insights he/she may have regarding the book. It is a critical analysis of the book. The scholar objectively evaluates the book. Scholar also rates the book on a scale of 1-5 and provides details to support his/her rating.

Students will give a persuasive speech to their peers. They will be assessed on use of persuasive language, content and style of delivery.

Students will compare and contrast characters from their novels of choice

This rubric sets criteria for grading the Process Speech presentations.

Book Talk Rubric - Self-Selected Novel

Create a character map showing how the main character of your novel reacted to events and changed.

A Rubric for the Character Change project

Brief summary of characters; focus on personal reaction

Write a full physical, emotional, and relational description of three of the characters in your free-reading novel. Support each description with sufficient evidence from the text.

Write a five paragraph analysis of a character from your independent novel you are reading. The introduction needs to capture the readers attention and make them want to read the rest of your analysis. Give a brief overview of the story and how your character fits into the story. In the body you need to show how the character is identified and what his/her traits are in the beginning of the story using examples and textual evidence to prove your analysis. In the next paragraph you must show how the character changes and is portrayed in the middle of the story using examples and textual evidence. The next paragraph will show how the character has evolved and has changed in the end of the story by using examples and textual evidence. In the conclusion show what you have learned from this character.

You are expected to design a costume, appropriate to character and time period, for four of the main characters of the play and write a supporting paragraph for each character explaining why you selected the costume. Also include one quote from the text for each character for further support. Options are: Mama (Lena), Beneatha, Walter, Ruth, Asagai, or George.

Students write a letter to a character in their novel.Each letter should contain all parts of a letter. Students should address a major conflict in the story and an imagined response from the characters.

Written speech focusing on allusion and rhetorical question.