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Grade 8

• Critical Literacy

  • 8.CL.1
  • 8.CL.2
  • 8.CL.3
  • 8.CL.4
  • 8.CL.5
  • 8.CL.6
  • 8.CL.7
  • 8.CL.8
  • 8.CL.8.a
  • 8.CL.8.b
  • 8.CL.8.c
  • 8.CL.9
  • 8.CL.10

• Digital Literacy

  • 8.DL.11
  • 8.DL.12
  • 8.DL.13
  • 8.DL.14
  • 8.DL.15

• Language Literacy

  • 8.LL.16
  • 8.LL.16.a
  • 8.LL.16.b
  • 8.LL.16.c
  • 8.LL.17
  • 8.LL.19
  • 8.LL.20
  • 8.LL.20.a
  • 8.LL.20.b
  • 8.LL.20.c
  • 8.LL.20.d
  • 8.LL.20.f
  • 8.LL.21

• Standards

  • 8.R1
  • 8.R2
  • 8.R3
  • 8.R4
  • 8.R5
  • 8.R6

• Research Literacy

  • 8.RL.22
  • 8.RL.23
  • 8.RL.24
  • 8.RL.25
  • 8.RL.26
  • 8.RL.27

• VL

  • 8.VL.28
  • 8.VL.29
  • 8.VL.31
  • 8.VL.32

Alabama ELA Standard: 8.DL.13

Create and edit digital products that are appropriate in subject, occasion, audience, point of view, purpose, and tone.

An Under-Appreciated Planet

Students write from the point of view of the most under-appreciated planet.

Change A Story’s Genre

What if we rewrote a story’s climax into a totally different genre?

Holiday Emoji Story ⛷️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Holiday Emoji Story 🍪

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Holiday Emoji Story ☃️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Holiday Emoji Story 🚚

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Halloween Emoji Story 🌕

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Halloween Emoji Story 🕷️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🦁

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🤖

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Squiggles Collection 3

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 2

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Create A Civilization: Design A Flag

What makes for a good flag? What makes a bad flag?

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

The Pros and Cons of Producers and Consumers

Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer’s opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?

Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

Student Introductions with Complexity and Frames

How have you changed over time? Students introduce themselves through the lens of change — and learn a Depth and Complexity tool in the process.

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Improving Presentations 3: The Storyboard and Slides

It’s time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.

Persuasion and Packaging: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

How does a drink’s packaging affect us emotionally and logically?

Creating A Realistic Flower and Pollinator

Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.

Historic Social Media

How would people from history have interacted online? Students will develop a conversation online between people involved in the same event from history.

An App For A Historical Figure

What kind of an app could have helped Abe Lincoln accomplish his goals?

Writing Clear Directions

Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?