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Theme

8th Grade

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 3

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

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.

Arizona Academic Standards: 8.RL.2

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.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.

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE8RL2

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

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

Analyze literary text development.
  1. 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.
  2. Incorporate a theme and its relationship to other story elements into an objective summary of the text.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 8.RL.KID.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.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: R.8.2

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)

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.3*

Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.3.A*

analyze literary works that share similar themes across cultures

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 8.6.B*

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

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

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.

8th Grade Reading - Theme Lesson
 
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