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If you're asking about what you should be able to do according to state standards, then a simple Google search for “8th grade writing standards in [your state]” should help you find the answer you're after.You can also check out the national Core standards for 8th graders here: English Language Arts Standards " Writing " Grade 8.In general, though, based on the 12 years I've dedicated to tutoring middle school and high school students, it is my understanding that incoming high school freshmen should be able to:Develop argumentative essays, usually up to 5 paragraphs in lengthWrite in a formal toneUtilize well-chosen, age-appropriate diction and a variety of sentence structuresInclude quotes, findings and arguments from respectable sources in their supporting paragraphsAddress and invalidate opposing claims with sound reasoningConclude their essay with a brief summary of points made and a final, noteworthy takeaway.If you're interested in practicing your skills before school resumes, I suggest:Checking out the free printable worksheets here: Common Core Worksheets | 9th - 10th Grade Writing.Getting Spectrum’s workbook for 8th grade writing, which is packed with great exercises: Amazon.com: Spectrum Writing, Grade 8 (9781483812038): Spectrum: BooksGathering examples of student essays and evaluating how well they put together their sentences, paragraphs, and overall argument. (This is actually the method I enjoy using the most as it leads to the most creative thinking about how essays work…and it's free.)Hope this helps!

I’m an Old School teacher of grammar. The only term I relate to is “prepositional phrases” and you would be well served by going to a complete list of all prepositions and then reminding yourself, when viewing a sentence, that, if a noun or pronoun is within a prepositional phrase, it is far too busy being “the object of the preposition” to be the subject of the sentence.I taught primarily at the 7th and 8th grade level although I then was placed in charge a class in Advanced Composition at St. Ambrose University, so my explanations for various grammatical terms loomed on that educational horizon again.I also taught another similar class for Eastern Iowa Community College. My students were primarily adults who were training to try to get better jobs, although I had a few just-out-of-high-school students.The students had come from all over, so there was no one school district to point to for the fact that the students had no idea about a variety of things, such as parts of speech, spelling, grammar and punctuation.Finally, in desperation, I got out an old 7th grade workbook that had some very clear explanations of when, where and how to punctuate sentences. I ran the “rules” for the students, making them little “handbooks,” if you will. This was very basic information, but we had competitive “quizzes” on the various punctuation rules, with prizes, and the students quickly picked up the basics of how, when and where to use a comma, as there was some random prize at the end of that rainbow, a technique that I had used within the Sylvan Learning Center I owned and had just sold.Years later, one of my students in that class came up to me in a grocery store and said, “Mrs. Wilson! I want you to know that I STILL get out that little handbook you gave us every time I have to write anything or revise my resume or do anything in writing, and it really helps.”The term “phrasal verbs” leaves me completely cold, but I can take apart a sentence with the best of them, pointing out to you what the various words are, in terms of parts of speech. I was taught to diagram in 6th grade and I’ve used it over and over, even teaching it to my 7th and 8th grade students the year we were stuck with the Roberts Transformational Grammar Book, which, not to put too kind a face on it, sucked.

The issue isn’t “undervalued”, it is mis-education.Dave Ramsey said that credit cards and debt products are the most heavily marketed products in the country. And these financial firms actively market to children in the guise of education.8th grade in our area includes life skills training like how to fill out a job application, an introduction to the resume and budgeting. You can learn similar things in high school “life skills” courses and as a part of home economics.The problem is that the content on financial literacy is often sponsored by the financial institutions. It shows up in budgeting forms and workbooks that say it is just fine to have 10% of your money going to credit card debt and 30% to a mortgage/home ownership. You also see it in the new version of the game of Life eliminating cash in favor of a Visa card. Or the parent seminars on paying for college that promote student loans as an investment while focusing on admissions to elite schools, not how you can cashflow college or maximize scholarships.All of it is presented as education, though it is indoctrination.