Students will be gaining experience with digital forms of text in addition to supporting their Language Arts growth in reading.  

Through our paralleling of the American History 8th grade curriculum, students get to explore multiple mediums and identify both contemporary and past messages of peers, ancestors and other historical figures.

Through the use of various texts and formats, student get the opportunity to practice and perfect additional reading and writing skills.  Both traditional and digital texts will be used with the Q-Matrix strategy.

Q-Matrix

Have students use the question stems in the Q-matrix to develop their own questions.  The simplest form of question is in the upper left, such as “Who is the main character?”  The more complex the question, the further it moves down and the further it moves right so that the most complex questions are in the bottom right-hand corner.  For instance, “How might Jesse have felt when Leslie gave him the paint set?” (Bridge to Terabithia) or “Why will the society return to books?” (The Last Book in the Universe).