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Grade 8

• Composition

  • C.8.1
  • C.8.1.a
  • C.8.1.b
  • C.8.1.c
  • C.8.1.e
  • C.8.1.f
  • C.8.1.g
  • C.8.2
  • C.8.2.b
  • C.8.2.c
  • C.8.2.e
  • C.8.2.f
  • C.8.2.h
  • C.8.3
  • C.8.3.b
  • C.8.3.c
  • C.8.3.d
  • C.8.3.e
  • C.8.3.f
  • C.8.3.g
  • C.8.4
  • C.8.5
  • C.8.6
  • C.8.7

• Language

  • L.8.1.a
  • L.8.1.b
  • L.8.1.c
  • L.8.2
  • L.8.2.a
  • L.8.2.c
  • L.8.3
  • L.8.3.a
  • L.8.4
  • L.8.4.a
  • L.8.4.b
  • L.8.4.d
  • L.8.5
  • L.8.5.a
  • L.8.5.b
  • L.8.5.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.8.1
  • RI.8.2
  • RI.8.3
  • RI.8.5
  • RI.8.6
  • RI.8.7
  • RI.8.8
  • RI.8.9
  • RI.8.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.8.1
  • RL.8.2
  • RL.8.3
  • RL.8.4
  • RL.8.5
  • RL.8.6
  • RL.8.9
  • RL.8.10

KAS ELA Standard: C.8.3.c

Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description and reflection, to develop experiences, events and/or characters.

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Gr 1-8

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Gr 2-8

Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🏟️

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

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🕰️

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

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 👁️

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

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🚗

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

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🤖

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

Gr 1-8

Emoji Stories 🛥️

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

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Gr 1-8

Think Like An Author: Hemingway vs Dickens

What if your students rewrote Dickens in the style of Hemingway and vice versa?

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: A Christmas Carol (Cold)

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Story Starter: Out To Eat

Students pick from 12 random phrases to create a story about an incident in a restaurant.

Gr 1-8

Story Starter: Somewhere In Space

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

Gr 3-8

Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)

A passage from The Jungle Book to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

The Personalities of Rocks

What would an igneous rock be like? Would it get along with a sedimentary rock? Could they handle the hot personality of a metamorphic rock?

Gr 2-8

Showing A Character’s Trait

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

Gr 2-8

Elements of The Fantasy Genre

Every fantasy story has patterns hiding underneath the magic. Once your students see the elements, they’ll spot them everywhere — and use them in their own writing.

Gr 1-8

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.

Gr 1-8