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Grade 8

• Language

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

• Reading: Informational

  • 8.RI.4
  • 8.RI.5
  • 8.RI.8

• Reading: Literature

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

• Speaking & Listening

  • 8.SL.4
  • 8.SL.5

• Writing

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

CCSS ELA Standard: 8.W.3.a

• ✓ Student Videos

  Building Creative Analogies

  We'll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

• ✓ Student Videos

  Showing A Character’s Trait

  We tell students to "show, not tell" in their writing, but this advice isn't effective until they experience the difference. In this video, we'll put a famous character (of students' choosing) into a mundane situation and develop a fun scene to show off their main traits.