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8th Grade - Reading Literature

Key Ideas and Details:
8.RL.1
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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  • Choose a story to practice reading Comprehension
  • ​Inflation in Russia 
  • Read a Contract
  • Reading Comprehension stories 
  • Reading the Fine Print
Notebook Files:

  • Major elements of explicit and implicit meaning
  • Types of Comprehension Questions
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8.RL.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
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  • Summarising: a glossary of terms 
  • Summarizing 
  • Thesis Statement 
Notebook Files:
  • Summarizing
  • Recurring Theme
  • The Outsiders
  • The Red Pony
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8.RL.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
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  • Circle Plot Diagram
  • Elements of Plot 
  • Elements of Plot 
  • Plot Development 
  • Plot Diagram 
Notebook Files:

  • Elements of a play
  • Conflict and Narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
  • How authors use language
  • How authors present stories to the readers


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Craft and Structure:
8.RL.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
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  • Do you know your metaphors?
  • Do you know your similes?
  • Figurative Language Quiz
  • Literary Devices Quizzes
  • Literary Devices Quizzes
  • Literary Devices Quizzes 
  • Metaphor Battleship Quiz 
  • Metaphor Quiz 
Notebook Files:

  • Relevance of Setting on Tone and Mood
  • Persona Poetry
  • The Red Pony
  • Metaphor Quiz - wb
  • Simile lesson -wb
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8.RL.5
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
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  • Cause and Effect Activities and Quizzes 
  • Compare and Contrast Activities ​
Notebook Files:
  • Stage directions poem wb


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8.RL.6
Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
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  • Author's Purpose and Point of View 
  • Purpose and Point of View 
Notebook Files:
  • Dramatic techniques to explore ideas, issues, texts, and meanings
  • Identify the perspectives offered on individuals, community, and society
  • Satire and wit in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
8.RL.7
Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
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Notebook Files:
  • Impact of media on the meaning of text
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8.RL.8(not applicable to literature)
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Notebook Files:
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8.RL.9
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
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Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

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8.RL.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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  • Virginia SOL Grade 7 Reading Test - Spring 2008
Notebook Files:
  • Silent reading with self and partner
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