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Grade 8

• Langauge

  • 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

• Has Student Videos!

  Building Creative Analogies

  Students will 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, they'll create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

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• Has 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 write two examples of a scene: one showing a character's trait, and one just telling.

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