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Grade 8

• Language

  • 8.L.1.b
  • 8.L.1
  • 8.L.2
  • 8.L.2.a
  • 8.L.2.b
  • 8.L.2.c
  • 8.L.3.a
  • 8.L.3
  • 8.L.4.b
  • 8.L.4.c
  • 8.L.4
  • 8.L.5.b
  • 8.L.5.c
  • 8.L.5
  • 8.L.6

• Reading: Informational

  • 8.RI.1
  • 8.RI.4
  • 8.RI.5
  • 8.RI.8
  • 8.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 8.RL.1
  • 8.RL.2
  • 8.RL.3
  • 8.RL.4
  • 8.RL.5
  • 8.RL.6
  • 8.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 8.SL.1
  • 8.SL.2
  • 8.SL.3
  • 8.SL.4
  • 8.SL.5

• Writing

  • 8.W.1.a
  • 8.W.1.b
  • 8.W.1.c
  • 8.W.1
  • 8.W.2
  • 8.W.2.a
  • 8.W.2.c
  • 8.W.3.a
  • 8.W.3.b
  • 8.W.3.d
  • 8.W.3.e
  • 8.W.3
  • 8.W.3.c
  • 8.W.4
  • 8.W.5
  • 8.W.7
  • 8.W.9
  • 8.W.9.a
  • 8.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 8.L.3.a

Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects (e.g., emphasizing the actor or the action; expressing uncertainty or describing a state contrary to fact).

Holiday Writing: Packing Crates

Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Passive to Active Voice

In this lesson, students will not just fix passive sentences, but break active sentences as they learn to put the star of the sentence first.