8th Grade ELA
ELA Vocab
8th Grade Skills
Parts of Speech
Bozic
100

Author of Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds

100

words that mean the opposite of one another are called 

What is antonym?

100

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

What is inference

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

Wredling Guidelines for Success

In corner of room

200

Play we read this year about a Black family trying to move into a home.

Raisin in the Sun

200

Mr. Bozic _______ cleaned his classroom when he realized the superintendent was stopping by the next day.

Somber            Subside          Scrupulous

Scrupulously

200

The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning 

What is context clues 

200

This modifies a verb

What is adverb?

200

Mr Bozic's amount of pets. (double points if you can name 2 of them)

4 (2 Cats and 2 Dogs) 

300

What are the two requirements when it comes to a theme statement 

life lesson and universal

300

To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text

What is annotate?

300

How is mood different from tone

Mood is how the reader feels, and tone is the feelings that the author create or their attitude towards a subject.

300

This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when

What is a preposition?

300

Name of the minion in Mr. Bozic's room (from the movie)

Stuart
400

Two types of Characterization

Direct and Indirect

400

Her anger __________ when her friend brought her ice cream.

Somber           Subside       Scrupulous

Subsided

400
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently

What are homophones?

400

An action or state of being

What is a verb?

400

Closest Guess- Number of states AND countries Mr. Bozic has been to.

46

500

Name 2 genres we have read this school year

informational, science fiction, horror, short story, fiction (any two)

500

The boy was in a ________ mood after he realized he failed his test.


Somber               Subside           Scrupulous

Somber

500

How do we break down a summary? (acronym)

SWBST

Somebody, wanted, but, so, then

500

Label the parts of speech in this sentence 

"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."

"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."

nouns- Ms.Crook, today, makeup , her (pronoun)

verbs - is , is , dressed 

adverb - fabulously

adj - beautiful 

conjunction- and 


500

Meaning of Mr. Bozics last name in Croatian.

Christmas

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