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8th Grade Historical Literacy Units
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8th Grade Historical Literacy Units
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
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Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 on page 53 for specific expectations.)
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Use multiple perspectives to analyze and explain issues or events within and across time periods, events, or cultures.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Use multiple perspectives to analyze and explain effects of issues or events within and across time periods, events, or cultures.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain patterns of continuity over time in the community, the state, the United States, and the world.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain patterns of change over time in the community, the state, the United States, and the world.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Analyze how the historical context influenced the process or nature of the continuity or change that took place.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Compare events from United States or world history to a current issue or event.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Apply historical perspectives to describe differing viewpoints of current events.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Hypothesize the direction of current events and outcomes based on the past.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain how the historical context (situation) influences a primary or secondary source.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain the significance of the intended audience of a primary or secondary source.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain the significance of the intended purpose of a specific primary or secondary source.
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Learning Domain: History
Standard: Explain how the POV of the author can influence the meaning of a primary or secondary source.
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