Prompt Title: The Choice Between and “We” “Me” Grade Level: 8th Writing Standard 2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a ELA Writing topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the Standard(s) selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. Content Standard(s) Reading Literature 8.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of a text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. Text(s) Written Source Title ☐ James Patrick Kinney Cold Audio “The ☐ Within” Visual ☐ Written Source Title ☐ Stephen Crane The Open Boat Audio ☐ Visual ☐ Source Title ☐Written Nouvelles Du Silence World of Audio ☐ “The (News of Silence) Today (and Visual ☐ Always)” (Cartoon of people watching a drowning person) Source Title ☐Written Take Care of The Norwegian Audio ☐ Each Other Directorate for Visual ☐ Children, Youth, and Family Affairs via Facebook.com (Video) Source Title ☐Written Helping Hand QuoteAddicts Audio ☐ #4586648 Visual ☐ (Graphic showing individual on one side of ravine and group on other) If interested, these texts and themes pair well with The Lord of the Novel Study
Prompt Title: The Choice Between “We” and “Me” Grade Level: 8th ELA Writing Standard(s) Writing Standard 2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. Content Standard(s) Reading Literature 8.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of a text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. Text(s) ☐ Written ☐ Audio ☐ Visual Source James Patrick Kinney Title “The Cold Within” ☐ Written ☐ Audio ☐ Visual Source Stephen Crane Title The Open Boat ☐Written ☐ Audio ☐ Visual Source Nouvelles Du Silence (News of Silence) Title “The World of Today (and Always)” (Cartoon of people watching a drowning person) ☐Written ☐ Audio ☐ Visual Source The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth, and Family Affairs via Facebook.com (Video) Title Take Care of Each Other ☐Written ☐ Audio ☐ Visual Source QuoteAddicts Title Helping Hand #4586648 (Graphic showing individual on one side of ravine and group on other) Novel Study If interested, these texts and themes pair well with The Lord of the
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