In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 8th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 8th grade ELA content.
This teacher's guide for Addie on the Inside by James Howe contains discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.
A teachers guide for All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, including a list of vocabulary words, a set of questions to promote deeper comprehension, prompts for class discussion, and related resources post-read.
In this lesson, students will use compare/contrast and question/answer text structures to analyze how nonfiction text is structured, identify transitions that support text structures, and cite evidence to support the identification of text structures.
This Powerpoint introduces archetypes found in literature, tv shows, and movies. Brief explanation for each of the selected archetypes and examples are presented. There is an application assignment where students will find additional archetype examples and write a brief essay demonstrating understanding of archetype.
This resource is a collection of discussion questions to supplement The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
This resource is a collection of discussion questions to supplement The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.
A teachers guide for Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, including chapter-specific questions for increased comprehension, questions for class discussion, and suggestions for further study.
This is a collection of discussion questions and activities to supplement The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.
This teacher's guide for The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson contains discussion questions and activities for reading comprehension, learning about craft and structure, integrating information, and writing practice.
In “Broken Chain,†Alfonso, a seventh grader, dislikes his appearance. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
A list of character traits with a short project to reinforce actions associated with those traits.
This three week lesson provides instruction in the basic elements of literature by reading Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Students are also provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior through a reading of the novel and a series of writing assignments.
Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students will identify these four attributes in comic strips and present their findings to the class.
A series of worksheets, projects, lessons and activities on characterization for various student levels.
In this activity, students will divide into two teams to conduct a mock trial based on The Ransom of Redchief by O. Henry.
The main character is unhappy about her family’s move to Cincinnati and spends most of her time in her room, miserable. Then one day, she goes grocery shopping for her parents and falls in love with the bag boy. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.