Language Arts - 8th Grade

• Choose Your Own Adventure: Hypertext Writing Exp.
  This lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes technology, specifically Web page design, group and individual work, and student self-assessment. After reading several examples, students will plan their own adventure story. They will be divided into smaller groups for each split in the story until finally the students are writing their own endings. Using Web-authoring software, groups will create their own Web sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other.
• Inside or Outside? A Lesson on Quotations Marks
  This ReadWriteThink mini-lesson asks students to look closely at their writing, marking quotation marks and considering how the conventions of punctuation apply to dialog. By teaching students how to identify the conventions used in their own writing, self-editing activities such as this quotation marks lesson help students become more responsible writers.