Content Area: Language Arts Literacy

 

Index: 3.1G Grade 8 CPI 9

 

Standard: 3.1 Reading

 

Strand: G - Comprehension Skills & Response to Text

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 9 -  The student will identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Students construct a comparative chart that outlines the Jim Crow Laws and the Nuremberg Laws. This is a prereading activity to be used in the study of a novel based on the Holocaust.

 

·       After reading a novel such as S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, students discuss ways of resolving conflicts with peers and reasons for labeling groups as “insiders” or “outsiders.”

 

·       As part of a unit on human respect, students monitor the print media for evidence of people’s generosity to each other.