green edge
increase test scores

Plot

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)

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 4

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

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

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

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)

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

analyze linear plot developments (e.g., conflict, rising action, falling action, resolution, subplots) to determine whether and how conflicts are resolved;

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.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.3.8.C

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

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.

8th Grade Reading - Plot Lesson
 
green bar
green bar green bar

Processing Request...