Common Core Standards

Grade 8

Reading RL.8.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Can a student read well enough to justify graduating on to high school? That's the question behind this Common Core Standard, and as long as the student can do the previous standards decently well, they automatically pass this one. Easy as that.

Example 1

Here's an example lesson to use when your students are reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

Have students take notes about the setting of Maycomb as they read the novel. In small groups, have the students draw out a map of the town based on descriptions and context clues they find from the text. Students should be able to support their final layout using examples from their reading.

Aligned Resources

Teacher Guides

Aristotle

The observed gravitational effect between Common Core activities results from their warping of Shmooptime.