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This section contains English topics which an adolescent 14 years of age might learn while attending grade 8 at middle school in the United States. Curriculum is based on state and national content standards.

Curriculum - Grade 8 English

Reading
Analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes
Understand most important points in the history of English language
Use word meanings within appropriate context
Compare and contrast features and elements of consumer materials
Analyze text which uses proposition and support patterns
Find similarities and differences between texts
Compare original text to a summary
Understand and explain use of a complex mechanical device
Use information from consumer, workplace, public documents
Evaluate text
Different poetry, ballad, lyric, couplet, epic, elegy, ode, sonnet
Evaluate structural elements of the plot
Compare and contrast motivations and reactions
Analyze relevance of setting
Identify and analyze recurring themes
Identify significant literary devices
Analyze a work of literature

Writing
Create compositions which establish a controlling impression
Establish coherence within and among paragraphs
Support theses and conclusions
Plan and conduct multiple-step information searches
Achieve an effective balance between information and ideas
Revise writing
Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, and narratives
Write replies to literature
Write research reports
Write persuasive compositions
Write documents related to career development
Write technical documents
Use correct and varied sentence types
Identify and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms
Use subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices
Edit written manuscripts to ensure that correct grammar is used
Use correct punctuation and capitalization
Use correct spelling conventions

Listening
Analyze different oral interpretations of literature
Paraphrase a speaker's purpose and point of view

Speaking
Arrange information to achieve particular purposes
Prepare speech outline based upon a chosen pattern of organization
Use precise language in ways which enliven oral presentations
Use appropriate grammar, word choice, enunciation, and speed
Use audience feedback
Evaluate credibility of a speaker
Interpret and evaluate visual image makers
Deliver narrative presentations
Deliver oral replies to literature
Deliver research presentations
Deliver persuasive presentations
Recite poems

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