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WE ARE CURRENTLY STUDYING: UNIT 1 - FICTION LITERACY
POWER STANDARDS:
- RL.8.1 - Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
- RL.8.2 - 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.
- RI.8.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- What makes a story worth telling?
- How does an author develop a main idea over the course of a text?
- How do I respond to what I read?
OBJECTIVES:
STUDYING THIS UNIT WILL HELP YOU TO...
- make connections from themes expressed in the selections to your own lives and the world around you
- understand different elements of fiction, including: plot, character, conflict, theme, setting, and point of view
- recognize variations of literary forms and author's use of language to develop forms
- write a MEL-EL-Con response to show your thinking about a fictional text
- support an inference with evidence from the text
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