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Number: LAFS.8.RL.3

Title: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Type: Cluster

Subject: English Language Arts - Archived

Grade: 8

Strand: Reading Standards for Literature

This cluster includes the following benchmarks

Code	Description
LAFS.8.RL.3.7:	Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
LAFS.8.RL.3.9:	Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Point Number	Access Point Title
LAFS.8.RL.3.AP.7a:	Compare and contrast content presented in text, media and live performance.
LAFS.8.RL.3.AP.9a:	Compare modern works of literature to the texts from which they draw ideas.

Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.

Name	Description
The Magic of Allusion and Themes:	Learn how to identify and explain allusions within a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine how texts create meaning by referencing well-known individuals, characters, and myths.

Name	Description
Pygmalion: A Mythological Inspiration:	Students will read Thomas Bulfinch's Pygmalion to answer text-dependent questions, work with vocabulary from the text, and compare the characterization of the two renditions of the myth. Students will also read an abridged excerpt from Act II of George Bernard Shaw's award-winning play, Pygmalion. Students will compare and contrast key characters and their traits from both texts. As a culminating activity, students will create their own narrative version of the Pygmalion myth.
From Text to Film: Exploring Classic Literature Adaptations:	Students learn about movie adaptations of books through a series of activities exploring the relationship between literature and film.

Vetted resources students can use to learn the concepts and skills in this topic.

Title	Description
The Magic of Allusion and Themes:	Learn how to identify and explain allusions within a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine how texts create meaning by referencing well-known individuals, characters, and myths.

Standard 3 : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (Archived)