{"id":42,"date":"2018-12-20T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T22:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:59:19","slug":"english-8-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/english-8-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our Grade 8 students! We&#8217;re looking forward to working with you through your time at South.<\/p>\n<p><b>English 8<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English 8 is an introductory course to English Language Arts at Burnaby South. In English 8, students will explore two major areas of curricular competency: comprehend and connect <\/span><b>(reading, listening, viewing)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and create and communicate<\/span><b> (writing, speaking, representing)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means English 8 students will spend their year exploring a wide variety of texts &#8211; including but not limited to novels, short stories, non-fiction, and poetry, and creating their own texts &#8211; including their own stories, poetry, presentations, paragraphs, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through English 8, students will experience the pleasure of exploring story and the way it shapes identity, culture, and our understanding of the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>English 8 Honours<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English 8 Honours covers the same skills as those in English 8, but at an enriched level. This course is excellent for students with a passion for reading and writing and are looking for a challenge in their English course. Entry into the course is subject to an assessment that will be administered in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>English 8 Language Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English 8 Language Development is a course for Grade 8 ELL Level 3 students.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course has similar content and skills focuses as our regular English 8 course, but also emphasizes language instruction. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our Grade 8 students! We&#8217;re looking forward to working with you through your time at South. English 8 English 8 is an introductory course to English Language Arts at Burnaby South. In English 8, students will explore two major areas of curricular competency: comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) and create and communicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8570,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}