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1 8 th Grade - NON-FICTION Name: Current Events Analysis Period: Date: Directions: Obtain a current event article from a major newspaper, magazine, or journal. Article must be a minimum of 2 pages (approximately 500 words) and in English. Attach a copy of the article to the report. Annotate the text using either CUBS (history) or Annotation Symbols (English). Complete the following text dependent questions. Article Title: Newspaper/Magazine: Author/Editor: Topic: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.2 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. What is the central idea of this article? (15-20 words) List four new facts or ideas you learned from reading this article Key Ideas and Details How has this new information changed your thinking about the subject? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Claim/Opinion/Answer: 1

2 What is the most important point in this text? How do you know? Use specific text details to support your response. Claim/Opinion/Answer: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.6 Determine an author's purpose in a text What is the author s purpose for writing this text? Did the author write to persuade, inform, entertain, etc.? Use specific details to support your response. Claim/Opinion/Answer: 2

3 REFLECTION Answer 1 of the following questions. Check one. o How does this connect to and/or affect you/your family? o How does this connect to and/or affect your community? o How does this connect to and/or affect the world? Claim/Opinion/Answer: 3

4 8 th Grade - FICTION Name: Period: Date: Directions: Read a Reading Counts Point fiction novel at your Lexile Reading Level. Complete the following text dependent questions. Pass the Reading Counts Point test on the novel when you return to school in August. Book Title: Author: Suggested Novels: Lexile Levels ( ): Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (13 Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (13 Wringer by Jerry Spinelli (10 The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain (6 Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (13 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (7 The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (7 Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (16 Lexile Levels ( ): Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (18 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (14 After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson (9 Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (15 Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (14 Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (20 Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (12 One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (11 Rules by Cynthia Lord (9 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (17 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (11 4 Lexile Levels (900+): Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (39 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (9 Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (19 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (12 The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (9 The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (11 Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (9 The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (19 Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (18 The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster (10 The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (12

5 NOTICE & NOTE Directions: Find an example of each notice & note signpost in the novel, complete the following questions. Contrasts & Contradictions Page # What character action or feeling was unexpected? Why do you think the character acted/felt that way? Aha Moment Page # What words told you that this was going to be an Aha Moment? How is this realization likely to be important in the story? How might this change things? Tough Questions Page # What was the tough question that character asked him/herself? How do you think the character will answer it? Or, how will his or her answer affect the events in the story that follow? 5

6 NOTICE & NOTE Directions: Find an example of each notice & note signpost in the novel, complete the following questions. Words of the Wiser Page # What advice or insight did the character share? How do you think this will affect the main character (or the one who received the advice)? Again & Again Page # What did you find the keeps coming up over and over again? What does this Again and Again signpost lead you to think is going to happen later in the story? Memory Moment Page # What memory came to the character s mind? Why do you think this memory is important to the character or to the story? 6

7 Characterization Main character: Directions: For each category, provide textual evidence and explain what it reveals about the personality of the main character. Characterization Textual Evidence Explanation What does this reveal about the character? Speech Thoughts Actions Looks Effect on Others 7

8 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.2 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. What is the theme of this novel? Claim/Opinion/Answer: Answer 1 of the following questions. Check one. o How does the main character contribute to the development of the theme? o How does the setting contribute to the development of the theme? o How does the conflict/problem contribute to the development of the theme? Claim/Opinion/Answer: 8

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