Grade 8

❔ Essential Question: In what different ways can people be intelligent?

🔍Focus Standards

8.R.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text."

8.R.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

8.RL.5 Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

8.RL.6 Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

8.W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

📖Novel Study Suggestions

🔗 ELA Supplemental Book List

• Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics | Margarita Engle and Rafael López | 1150L

• Chinese Cinderella | Adeline Yen Mah | 960L

• Death Cloud | Andrew Lane | 940L

• Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 780L

• Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | 930L

• Full Cicada Moon | Marilyn Hilton | 790L

• A Mango-Shaped Space | Wendy Mass | 770L

• Tru Confessions | Janet Tashjian | 840L

• The Wild Book | Margarita Engle | 1050L

📰 Newsela myPerspectives Curriculum Complements

🔉 Listenwise (Podcast) Supplemental Resources

CommonLit Supplementary Unit Lessons
Embracing Our Differences
Essential Question: What keeps people from embracing their differences and how do they find the courage to be themselves?