Characters
8th Grade
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Alabama Course of Study Standards:
3
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Analyze how authors use key literary elements, including setting, plot, theme, characters, internal and external conflict, dialogue, and point of view, to contribute to the meaning and purpose of a text, using text evidence as support. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RL.8.2
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Examine a grade-appropriate literary text.- Provide an objective summary.
- Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to
the characters, setting, and plot.
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Arizona Academic Standards:
8.RL.2
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.8.2
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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. |
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8RL2
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Determine a theme and/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. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
8R2
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Determine one or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; summarize a text. (RI&RL) |
Ohio's Learning Standards:
RL.8.2
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Analyze literary text development.- Determine a theme of a text and analyze
its development over the course of the
text, including its relationship to the
characters, setting, and plot.
- Incorporate a theme and its relationship to
other story elements into an objective
summary of the text.
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Tennessee Academic Standards:
8.RL.KID.2
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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. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.8.2
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Summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine one or more themes or central ideas and analyze their development over the course of the text. (RI&RL) |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
4
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Analyze the use of literary devices, including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, imagery, tone, symbolism, irony, mood, and allusion, to support interpretations of literary texts, using textual evidence to support the analysis. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
8.RL.3
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.8.3
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8RL3
Tennessee Academic Standards:
8.RL.KID.3
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Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
8R3
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In literary texts, analyze how particular lines of dialogue or events propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. (RL) In informational texts, analyze how individuals, events, and ideas are introduced, relate to each other, and are developed. (RI) |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.8.3
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In literary texts, analyze how particular lines of dialogue or events propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. (RL) In informational texts, analyze how individuals, events, and ideas are introduced, related to each other, and developed. (RI) |
Alabama Course of Study Standards:
5
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Compare and contrast the perspectives in a variety of fiction, nonfiction, informational, digital, and multimodal texts produced from diverse historical, cultural, and global viewpoints. |
Arkansas Academic Standards:
RL.8.6
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Analyze how differences in the points of view and/or perspectives of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor. |
Arizona Academic Standards:
8.RL.6
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RL.8.6
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE8RL6
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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. |
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RL.8.6
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Analyze how differences in the perspectives of the characters and the audience or reader create such effects as suspense or humor. |
New York State Next Generation Learning Standards:
8R6
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In literary texts, analyze how the differences between the point of view, perspectives of the characters, the audience, or reader create effects such as mood and tone. (RL) In informational texts, analyze how the author addresses conflicting evidence or viewpoints. (RI) |
Tennessee Academic Standards:
8.RL.CS.6
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Analyze how similarities and differences in the points of view of the audience and the characters create effects such as suspense, humor, or dramatic irony. |
Wisconsin Academic Standards:
R.8.6
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In literary texts, analyze how the differences between the point of view, perspectives, and possible biases of the characters, the audience, or reader create effects such as mood and tone. (RL) In informational texts, explain how an author’s geographic location, identity, or culture affect perspective. Analyze how the author addresses conflicting evidence or viewpoints. (RI) |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
8.3.C*
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explain how the values and beliefs of particular characters are affected by the historical and cultural setting of the literary work. |
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
8.6.B*
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analyze how the central characters' qualities influence the theme of a fictional work and resolution of the central conflict; |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.8.A
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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. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E08.A-K.1.1.2
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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. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.3.8.C
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Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E08.A-K.1.1.3
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Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story, drama, or poem propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision. |
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.8.R.1.1
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Analyze the interaction between character development, setting, and plot in a literary text. |
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