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Standard 4 : Range of Reading and Level of Text ComplexityArchived
Cluster Standards
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
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- LAFS.8.RL.4.10 : 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.
Cluster Information
Number:
LAFS.8.RL.4
Title:
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Type:
Cluster
Subject:
English Language Arts - Archived
Grade:
8
Strand
Reading Standards for Literature
Cluster Access Points
This cluster includes the following Access Points.
- LAFS.8.RL.4.AP.10a : Read or listen to a variety of texts or adapted texts, including historical novels, periodicals, dramas or plays, poetry (including soliloquies and sonnets), fiction and nonfiction novels.
- LAFS.8.RL.4.AP.10b : Use a variety of strategies to derive meaning from a variety of texts.
Cluster Resources
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
Original Student Tutorials
- Personification in "The Railway Train": Explore the poem “The Railway Train” by Emily Dickinson in this interactive tutorial. Learn about personification and vivid descriptions and determine how they contribute to the meaning of a poem.
- Make a Wish: Theme in "The Monkey's Paw": Learn to identify and analyze the development of theme in this interactive tutorial. We'll read excerpts from "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs and examine how several different themes are developed throughout the text. We'll explore how each theme is conveyed in the story as the plot unfolds.
- Metaphors: The Ultimate Transformers!: Learn about two types of figurative language—similes and metaphors—in this interactive tutorial. You'll read several classic poems, including "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Hope" by Emily Dickinson. You'll examine how each poem uses metaphor to convey a specific idea to readers.
Lesson Plans
- Florida: Feast of Figurative Language:
In this lesson (lesson two of a two-lesson unit), students will use Bishop's poem as a model to write their own Florida poem brimming with figurative language and vivid vocabulary. They will also select digital media to reflect the content of their original poems.
- To the Heart of Human Expression: Form and Theme in Poetry (Part 2): This is part two in a two-part series using Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 71." In this lesson, students will to identify and explain theme in poetry and write a short response.
- The Paths We Take: A Poetic Comparison: Students will study two poems in this lesson: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and Dale Wimbrow's "The Guy in the Glass." Students will identify and explain the use of metaphor in each poem, and they will also examine the imagery and personification used in each one. Students will also determine a theme of each poem and explain the similarities and differences in their related themes.
- To the Heart of Human Expression: Tools of the Poet's Trade (Part 1): This is part one in a two-part series using Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 71." In this lesson, students will examine poetic and sound devices, and write a short response analysis of how these devices are at work in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 71."
Teaching Idea
- Teaching Tolerance: Maya Angelou: This resource from Teaching Tolerance focuses on Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise." It begins with a discussion of figurative language and the power of words and moves into a discussion of overcoming hardships.