{"id":312553,"date":"2024-11-14T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=312553"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:58:36","slug":"grade-8-engaging-with-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2024\/11\/14\/grade-8-engaging-with-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8: engaging with literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grade 8s are heading towards the end of their current unit based on the novel, &#8220;The Outsiders&#8221;, by S.E. Hinton. Last week, 2 of their peers engaged them in learning activities about the conflicts in the novel. The activity they particularly enjoyed was &#8220;Hot Seat&#8221; where a student had to answer Yes or No questions as a character in the novel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0203-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312562 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0203-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0202-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312558 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0202-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, 3 classmates led activities based on understanding plot and setting. Activities ranged from playing Kahoot! to &#8220;Hot Seat&#8221; again and acting out the main plot point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312566 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0212-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0210-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312565 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0210-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0206-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312564 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/11\/IMG_0206-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grade 8 students always enjoy the activities run by their peers on Thursdays as these are creative for them and comes from someone like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grade 8s are heading towards the end of their current unit based on the novel, &#8220;The Outsiders&#8221;, by S.E. 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The activity they particularly enjoyed was &#8220;Hot Seat&#8221; where a student had to answer Yes or No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,31,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-8","category-secondary-english","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}