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Content Area: Language Arts Literacy
Index: 3.1G Grade 8 CPI 7
Standard: 3.1 Reading
Strand: G - Comprehension Skills & Response to Text
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 7 - The student will respond critically to text ideas and craft by using textual evidence to support interpretations.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· Students read an important speech, such as Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” analyzing purpose, ideas, and style. They discuss such questions as: Why does this address work? Why is it remembered?
· Students review the speeches presented by candidates in their most recent student elections and evaluate them for audience appeal and effectiveness. Students strive to answer the question: What helped to get the successful candidate(s) elected?
· Using multimedia sources, students research a piece of literature that satirizes a form of government and present an oral presentation to the class on the viewpoint conveyed in the literature.
· After reading Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, students expressing an interest in reading other books by the same author may enjoy listening to book talks on some of these, including The Friendship and the Gold Cadillac and Let the Circle Be Unbroken. The teacher provides them with biographical information about the author, the children decide which book they want to read, and the students form literature circles. When the literature circles finish reading their books and the biographical materials, they discuss the stylistic and thematic continuities between the book they read and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Then they formulate hypotheses about aspects of the author’s real life that influenced her writing and record their ideas in reading logs that they share with the class.
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