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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: L.8.1.b

Demonstrate appropriate use of verbs in the active and passive voice.

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

Two columns of sentences. Something is different about them. Can you figure out the rule?

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.