8th Grade ELA

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You can use some of the question types below to guide or challenge your child to more complex creative adaptations and interactions with a text or novel.

Bloom’s Based Questions

Level 1: Knowledge

1. What is the main conflict in the story?

2. List five new words that you found in the novel that you didn’t know before. Write a synonym and antonym to go with each.

3. Choose a character from your book and list their characteristics. These should be both physical characteristics and characteristics of their personalities.

Level 2: Comprehension

1. (Before you finish reading only) After a particularly exciting event, predict what will happen next. Write out a summary of what just happened and what you believe will happen next.

2. Follow the emotions of the protagonist: choose five points throughout the novel that the protagonist experiences a strong emotion. Write the emotion, the situation, and explain why he or she feels that way.

3. Illustrate a clear picture of the setting using only your own words.

Level 3: Application

1. List two important events that happened. Which characters had an important part in these events? Write a paragraph telling about one of these events.

2. Select three quotations from the beginning, middle, and end of the text that prove that the protagonist is changing throughout the novel.

3. Give examples of things you have experience/heard about others experiencing that goes along with a problem a character is having in your novel.

Level 4: Analysis

1. What is the theme of your novel? How do you know?

2. Compare and/or contrast two of the main characters.

3. Distinguish between how the protagonist feels versus how they act and what they say.

Level 5: Evaluate

1. Research and choose a current event that you feel fits with the theme of your book. Summarize the article and explain the connection to the theme.

2. Make a digital poster on Canva (or other site) that might persuade another to read your book. It needs to be appealing so that another person can’t help but consider reading the book you read.

Level 6: Create

1. Write a song or rap from the protagonist’s perspective.

2. Imagine that you are a secondary character in the story. Write three journal entries that show that character’s reaction to three separate major events.