8th Grade Common Core: RL.8.2
Common Core Identifier: RL.8.2 / Grade: 8
Curriculum: Reading Literature: Key Ideas and Details
Detail: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
24 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) aligned worksheets found:
After reading chapters 1 through 3 of the novel, answer these questions about the text. Short response and multiple choice questions are included.
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Make sure students understand key events and details from chapters 15 through 17 of Hatchet with this review packet. Questions include multiple choice and short answer, as well as a chart for students to fill in.
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Use this worksheet to review this section of the book and the events that occurred in it. Students will answer short answer and multiple choice questions, and even complete a chart.
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Answer these reading comprehension questions about chapters 7 through 9 of Esperanza Rising. Multiple choice questions confirm understanding of key content, while short answer questions encourage thoughtful response.
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This reading comprehension packet for chapters 10 through 12 of Esperanza Rising includes a mix of short answer and multiple choice questions about the content of this section of the book.
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Answer a variety of short answer and multiple choice questions to support a meaningful understanding of the content from chapters 1 and 2.
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These reading comprehension questions cover chapters 3 and 4 of The Outsiders and include short response and multiple choice questions involving theme, context clues, symbolism, and more.
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Use this printout to test your students' understanding of the full text of To Kill a Mockingbird. Multiple choice and short answer questions are included, as is a graphic organizer chart for students to fill in.
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With this vocabulary packet, your students will review words from the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you have used our vocabulary worksheets for each section of the book, students should be familiar with all of the words included in this packet.
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Use this graphic organizer to help your students succeed in writing an essay on how either Scout or Jem has evolved throughout the novel. Use this outline with the essay worksheet above.
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Encourage students to think critically about several quotes from Atticus's closing statements and summarize their meaning.
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For this argumentative essay, students will write about how either Jem or Scout changes throughout the novel due to being exposed to certain harsh realities of the world.
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This printout prompts students to write about the interaction that takes place between Bob, Randy, Cherry, and Marcia in chapter 3, focusing on its reflection of societal expectation of gender roles during the time period.
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In chapter 4, Ponyboy and Johnny decide to run away rather than seek help from authorities or family members. With this extended response worksheet, students will consider how their socioeconomic status and family experiences likely shaped this choice.
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Use this worksheet to help your students plan their essay responses to the argumentative essay prompt above.
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This essay prompt asks students to consider Atticus's actions and decisions throughout the novel and what they reveal about his personal values. Responses should outline a theme about morality and integrity that Lee shows through her characterizations of Atticus.
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Use your understanding of the novel so far to help answer the questions in this packet. Questions include multiple choice and short answer.
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This argumentative essay writing prompt has students reflect on how Scout's understanding of Boo changes throughout the novel.
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Use this graphic organizer with the worksheet above to help students plan out their essays on Atticus's actions and their relation to his personal values.
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Use this writing prompt to help students understand situational irony as it is created by the moment when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are praised by a teacher after the fire in chapter 6.
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Review important aspects of chapters 5 and 6 of The Outsiders with this question packet. Questions include both short answer and multiple choice responses.
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Use evidence from the text to write about Dally's actions in regard to taking risks to visit and help Ponyboy and Johnny in chapters 5 and 6.
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In chapter 5, Ponyboy recites Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay." With this prompt, students will write about its overall meaning and connection to the themes of the novel so far.
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Focusing on the hospital scene at the end of chapter 6, analyze how Ponyboy and Darry's relationship evolves over the course of the story. Explain what finally makes Ponyboy realize Darry loves him and what his words at the end of the chapter mean.
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