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8.3 Critical Reading and Writing
- Reading: Students will analyze, interpret, and evaluate increasingly complex literary and informational texts that include a wide range of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives from a variety of genres.
- 8.3.R.1 Students will analyze works written on the same topic from a variety of historical, cultural, ethnic, and global perspectives and analyze the methods the authors use to achieve their purposes.
- 8.3.R.2 Students will evaluate perspectives (e.g., historical, cultural, ethnic, and global) and describe how they affect various literary and informational texts.
- 8.3.R.3 Students will analyze literary elements to support interpretations of a literary text:
- 8.3.R.3.a setting
- 8.3.R.3.b plot
- 8.3.R.3.c characters (i.e., protagonist, antagonist)
- 8.3.R.3.d characterization
- 8.3.R.3.e conflict (i.e., internal, external)
- 8.3.R.3.f point of view (i.e., third person limited and omniscient, second person, and unreliable narrator)
- 8.3.R.4 Students will analyze literary devices to support interpretations of a text:
- 8.3.R.4.a figurative language (i.e., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism, idiom)
- 8.3.R.4.b sound devices (i.e., onomatopoeia, alliteration)
- 8.3.R.4.c verbal and situational irony
- 8.3.R.5 Students will identify literary elements and devices that impact a text’s theme, mood, and tone.
- 8.3.R.6 Students will evaluate textual evidence to determine whether a claim is substantiated or unsubstantiated.
- 8.3.R.7 Students will analyze how informational text structures support the author’s purpose:
- 8.3.R.7.a compare/contrast
- 8.3.R.7.b cause/effect
- 8.3.R.7.c problem/solution
- 8.3.R.7.d description
- 8.3.R.7.e sequential
- 8.3.R.8 Students will compare or contrast two or more texts, providing textual evidence to support their inferences.
- Writing: Students will thoughtfully and intentionally write, addressing a range of modes, purposes, and audiences.
- 8.3.W.1 Students will compose narratives reflecting real or imagined experiences that:
- 8.3.W.1.a include plots involving complex characters resolving conflicts
- 8.3.W.1.b unfold in chronological or surprising sequence (e.g., flashback and foreshadowing)
- 8.3.W.1.c include a narrator, precise language, sensory details, and dialogue to enhance the narrative
- 8.3.W.1.d use sentence variety to create clarity
- 8.3.W.1.e emulate literary elements and/or literary devices from mentor texts
- 8.3.W.2 Students will compose informative essays or reports that:
- 8.3.W.2.a objectively introduce and develop topics
- 8.3.W.2.b incorporate evidence (e.g., specific facts, details, charts and graphs, data)
- 8.3.W.2.c maintain an organized structure
- 8.3.W.2.d use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity
- 8.3.W.2.e establish and maintain a formal style
- 8.3.W.2.f emulate literary devices from mentor texts
- 8.3.W.3 Students will compose argumentative essays that:
- 8.3.W.3.a introduce precise claims
- 8.3.W.3.b acknowledge counterclaims
- 8.3.W.3.c organize claims, counterclaims, and evidence in a logical sequence
- 8.3.W.3.d provide relevant evidence to develop arguments, using credible sources
- 8.3.W.3.e use sentence variety and word choice to create clarity
- 8.3.W.3.f establish and maintain a formal style
- 8.3.W.1 Students will compose narratives reflecting real or imagined experiences that: