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Grade 8

• Communication and Multimodal Literacies

  • 8.C.1
  • 8.C.1.A
  • 8.C.2.A
  • 8.C.3
  • 8.C.3.A
  • 8.C.3.B
  • 8.C.4
  • 8.C.4.A

• Language Usage

  • 8.LU.1
  • 8.LU.1.C
  • 8.LU.2
  • 8.LU.2.C

• Research

  • 8.R.1
  • 8.R.1.B
  • 8.R.1.E
  • 8.R.1.F

• Reading Informational Text

  • 8.RI.3.B

• Reading Literary Text

  • 8.RL.1
  • 8.RL.1.A
  • 8.RL.2
  • 8.RL.2.A
  • 8.RL.2.B

• Reading and Vocabulary

  • 8.RV.1
  • 8.RV.1.B
  • 8.RV.1.C
  • 8.RV.1.D
  • 8.RV.1.E
  • 8.RV.1.G

• Writing

  • 8.W.1
  • 8.W.1.A
  • 8.W.1.B
  • 8.W.1.C
  • 8.W.3
  • 8.W.3.A

Virginia ELA Standard: 8.W.3.A

Revise writing for clarity of content, word choice, sentence variety, and transition among paragraphs.

Improving Shakespeare’s Repetition

Let’s help William Shakespeare with his use of repetition.

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Writing Clear Directions

Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?