Welcome to 8th Grade English Language Arts!

Mrs. Stephanie Hegge

Email: shegge@hershey.k12.pa.us

Room Number: A136

Phone: 717-531-2222 Ext 4136

The goal of the English Language Arts department at Hershey Middle School is to develop critical thinkers, effective communicators, analytical readers, and informed consumers of media.

In eighth grade English Language Arts, students are provided with opportunities and resources to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. These skills are essential to a student’s ability to be informed and productive members in our society. Throughout the year, students will read a variety of high-quality fiction and nonfiction texts including but not limited to poetry, mythology, plays, articles, and novels. Classroom instruction will include strategies, techniques, and procedures for helping students develop as readers and writers. The instruction advocates techniques for students to become analytical readers and effective communicators, and students will have multiple opportunities to practice these techniques throughout the school year. All skills are taught through thematic units; currently, the thematic units in eighth grade include Building Bridges; Our Odyssey, Our Journey; Stirring Up Justice; and Decisions, Decisions.