8th Grade ELA
ELA Vocab
8th Grade Skills
Parts of Speech
8th Grade at RMS
100

Author of Long Way Down

Who is Jason Reynolds?

100

Words that mean the same as another are called 

What is synonym?

100

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

What is an inference?

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

As RAMS we are.....

What is Respectful, Accountable, Motivated, and Safe?

200

Define an objective summary

What is a 5 - 7 sentence summary with no opinions or opinion words that only tells the most important details?

200

The students were __________ by Mrs. Dean's confusing directions. They had no idea what to do.

Perplexed                 Audacity             Juxtaposed

What is perplexed?

200

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

What are context clues?

200

This describes or adds additional information to a noun

What is adjective?

200

Where students can find out what we are doing each day

What is looking at the marker board on the wall?

300

Name all the points of view

What is First Person, Second Person, and Third Person?

300

Type of essay that is trying to convince the reader about a certain side of an issue.

What is persuasive?

300

Definitions for MOOD and TONE

What is:

Mood is how the reader feels

Tone is the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.

300

This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about time, place, or location. 

What is a preposition?

300

The four kinds of fine arts classes at Ramsey

What are Band, Choir, Art, and Orchestra?

400

Two types of conflict in a story

What is internal and external?

400

Mr. Stocking had the ________ to assign homework the night before the ATLAS test when he subbed for Mrs. Dean's class.

Perplex                 Audacity             Juxtapose

What is audacity?

400

Last official day of 8th grade

What is May 31st?

400

A word that describes action or a state of being

What is a verb?

400

The amount of  snow days did we had to make up this school year

What is two?
500

Name 4 novels or short stories we have read this school year.

The Crossover, Refugee, The Monkey's Paw, That was Then This is Now, An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Thank You Ma'am, Anne Frank play, Flowers for Algernon, Long Way Down (any four)

500

"I am berry proud of you for passing 8th grade" is an example of a _____.

What is a pun?

500

Three things we write in a introductory paragraph

What is Hook, Background Information, and Thesis Statement?

500

Identify at least FOUR parts of speech in this sentence:

Ms. Hatwig is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is flawless.

Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is flawless.

nouns- Ms. Hatwig, today, makeup  

pronoun - her 

verbs - is (twice), dressed 

adverb - fabulously

adj - flawless

conjunction- and 


500

The top scoring player in the Faculty vs. Students basketball game on Monday

Who is TBA?

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