ELA 8th Grade Literature

Description

• Analyze plot structure and development, including how conflicts are resolved (e.g., how particular lines of dialogue and events propel the action or reveal character)

• Analyze characters' traits, responses, and motives and how the central character influences the plot or theme

• Draw conclusions about a literary text based on analysis of textual details and patterns (e.g., draw a conclusion about an author's intent by analyzing tone, word choice, and connotation)

• Analyze the development of a theme over the course of a literary text and how the theme relates to other literary elements (e.g., how the theme is revealed through the plot)

• Compare and contrast the effects of different points of view (e.g., first/third person, limited/omniscient, subjective/objective) on the plot or on the reader's perception

• Analyze a wide range of literary devices used in literary texts (e.g., allusion, analogy, irony, symbolism, dialect, simile, and extended metaphor), and explain their meanings and contributions

• Analyze how modern literary texts draw on the character types, themes, patterns, or events of epic tales, myths, and traditional stories, comparing and contrasting the texts to their sources in order to determine how the sources are rendered new

• Read regularly and independently in eighth-grade-appropriate texts for sustained periods of time, increasing speed, stamina, and comprehension