Write to argue a position, supporting at least one claim and rebutting at least one counterclaim with logical reasoning, credible evidence from sources, elaboration, and using a logical organizational structure.
Standard:
ELA.8.C.1.4
Description:
Write expository texts to explain and analyze information from multiple sources, using relevant supporting details, logical organization, and varied purposeful transitions.
Standard:
ELA.8.V.1.1
Description:
Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.
Standard:
8.3
Description:
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to adjust fluency when reading grade-level text based on the reading purpose.
Standard:
8.4
Description:
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading. The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
Standard:
8.5
Description:
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
Standard:
8.5.A
Description:
establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text;
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8.5.B
Description:
generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information;
Standard:
8.5.C
Description:
make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;
Standard:
8.5.D
Description:
create mental images to deepen understanding;
Standard:
8.5.E*
Description:
make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
Standard:
8.5.F*
Description:
make inferences and use evidence to support understanding;
Standard:
8.5.G
Description:
evaluate details read to determine key ideas;
Standard:
8.5.H*
Description:
synthesize information to create new understanding;
Standard:
8.5.I
Description:
monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.
Standard:
8.6
Description:
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Standard:
8.6.A
Description:
describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
Standard:
8.6.B
Description:
write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;
Standard:
8.6.C*
Description:
use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
Standard:
8.6.D*
Description:
paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
Standard:
8.6.E
Description:
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
Standard:
8.6.F
Description:
respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate;
Standard:
8.6.G
Description:
discuss and write about the explicit or implicit meanings of text;
Standard:
8.6.H
Description:
respond orally or in writing with appropriate register, vocabulary, tone, and voice;
Standard:
8.6.I
Description:
reflect on and adjust responses as new evidence is presented;
Standard:
8.6.J
Description:
defend or challenge the author's claims using relevant text evidence.
Standard:
8.7
Description:
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.
Standard:
8.7.A*
Description:
analyze how themes are developed through the interaction of characters and events;
Standard:
8.7.B*
Description:
analyze how characters' motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict;
Standard:
8.7.C*
Description:
analyze non-linear plot development such as flashbacks, foreshadowing, subplots, and parallel plot structures and compare it to linear plot development; and
Standard:
8.7.D*
Description:
explain how the setting influences the values and beliefs of characters.
Standard:
8.8
Description:
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Standard:
8.8.B*
Description:
analyze the effect of graphical elements such as punctuation and line length in poems across a variety of poetic forms such as epic, lyric, and humorous poetry;
Standard:
8.8.C
Description:
analyze how playwrights develop dramatic action through the use of acts and scenes;
Standard:
8.8.D*
Description:
analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including:
the controlling idea or thesis with supporting evidence;
features such as footnotes, endnotes, and citations; and
multiple organizational patterns within a text to develop the thesis;
Standard:
8.8.F
Description:
analyze characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
Standard:
8.9
Description:
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.
Standard:
8.9.A*
Description:
explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Standard:
8.9.B
Description:
analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Standard:
8.9.C*
Description:
analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
Standard:
8.9.D*
Description:
describe how the author's use of figurative language such as extended metaphor achieves specific purposes;
Standard:
8.9.E*
Description:
identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony;
NOTE: The use of irony is not eligible for assessment until the 2021-2022 school year.
Standard:
8.9.F
Description:
analyze how the author's use of language contributes to mood, voice, and tone;
Standard:
8.9.G
Description:
explain the purpose of rhetorical devices such as analogy and juxtaposition and of logical fallacies such as bandwagon appeals and circular reasoning.
Standard:
8.10
Description:
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Standard:
8.10.B
Description:
develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion; and
developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts, details, and examples;
Standard:
8.10.E
Description:
publish written work for appropriate audiences.
Standard:
8.11
Description:
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.
Standard:
8.11.B
Description:
compose informational texts, including multi-paragraph essays that convey information about a topic, using a clear controlling idea or thesis statement and genre characteristics and craft;
Standard:
8.12
Description:
Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes.
Standard:
8.12.F
Description:
synthesize information from a variety of sources;
Standard:
8.12.H
Description:
examine sources for:
reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission; and
faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language;
