Grade 8
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Critical Literacy
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Digital Literacy
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Language Literacy
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Standards
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Research Literacy
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VL
Alabama ELA Standard: 8.CL.4
Analyze the use of literary devices, including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, imagery, tone, symbolism, irony, mood, and allusion, to support interpretations of literary texts, using textual evidence to support the analysis.
Idioms About Numbers 2
Five idioms related to numbers.
Idioms About Numbers 1
Five idioms related to numbers.
Idioms About Salt
Five idioms related to salt.
Idioms About Eggs
Five idioms related to eggs.
Idioms About Dessert
Five idioms related to dessert.
Idioms About Food 2
Five idioms related to food.
Idioms About Food 1
Five idioms related to food.
Idioms About Feet
Five idioms related to feet.
Idioms About Noses
Five idioms related to noses.
Idioms About Hands and Fingers
Five idioms related to hands and fingers.
Idioms About Hands
Five idioms related to hands.
Idioms About Body Parts
Five idioms related to body parts.
Idioms About Bugs
Five idioms related to bugs.
Idioms About Birds 2
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Birds 1
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Ducks
Five idioms related to ducks.
Idioms About Geese
Five idioms related to geese.
Idioms About Names
Five idioms related to names.
Idioms About Bites
Five idioms related to bites.
Idioms About the Greeks and Romans
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
Idioms About Mouths
Five idioms related to mouths.
Idioms About Water
Five idioms related to water.
Idioms About Money
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Idioms About Fire
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Idioms about Weather
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Idioms About Red
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
Remixing A Holiday Poem
Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!
Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition
Is your students’ use of repetition limited to, “The girl was very, very, very fast.”? Let’s borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!
Advanced Alliteration and Consonance
When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.
What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
Studying and Remixing “The Raven”
Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?
Literary Technique: Juxtaposition
Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!