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8th Grade

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8
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Language Arts
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Essential Questions:
How does understanding theme/central idea help me in my life?
Understandings:
- main idea is what a passage is mostly about.
- theme is the message the author is trying to get across.
- explicit information is clearly stated information in the passage.
- details are bits and pieces of information that support the main idea or add interest to a passage.
- implied information is information that is suggested by the details within the text.
- scan means to run your eyes over the passage to look for a specific words or phrases.
- objective information is based on facts and does not reference personal opinions or feelings.
- subjective information makes reference to personal opinions or feelings.
- a summary is the retelling of a text/story in your own words using only the major details.
Skill Goals:
- Students will be able to infer the theme or central idea of a text, based on the text's setting, plot, and characters.
- Students will be able to analyze the development of a theme over the course of a text, determining when it first appear and when it is reinforced by events or characters in the text.
- Students will be able to explain how the characters, setting, and/or plot support the development of a theme.
- Students will be able to determine the main ideas in a text and use theme in an objective summary.

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