We will be studying common Greek and Latin root words throughout the school year in Language Arts class. Students will learn to use clues from those roots when they encounter unfamiliar words. They will complete creative and challenging vocabulary building activities to reinforce the root words. Each of the twelve units introduces ten vocabulary words and traces their definitions back to a common meaning. Students will examine the words in context to understand correct usage and complete hands-on activities to build their vocabulary skills.
Be sure to check with your child and hear the new words they are learning this year!
The roots we will study this year in eighth grade include:
graph, gram (write), curr, curs, cours (run), carn, corp (body), arch (ruler), cycle, orb (roundness), min (small), phone (sound), anthro, homo (man), dict (speak), port (carry), sum, syn (together), phil (love)
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