Common Core Standards
Grade 8
Speaking and Listening SL.8.6
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
Yo, you heard about that one dude who failed eighth grade 'cause he couldn't speak his way out of a wet paper bag? Too bad he never listened to this Common Core Standard. If he had, maybe he would've passed his graduation test.
Aligned Resources
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: To Speak or Not to Speak… Freely
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Channeling Winn-Dixie
- Teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Split Identities: Being Two at Once
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Childhood Treasures
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Modern-Day Toms and Hucks
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Create Your Own Knowledge Bowl
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: A Dream Deferred
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Animal Farm: The Power of Words
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Honoring a Loss
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Not Another Janice Avery!
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Internet Safety and Ethics: Oh No, You Didn't!: Internet Dangers and Strategies for Staying Safe
- Teaching Animal Farm: Corruption Makes the World Go Round
- Teaching Of Mice and Men: Photo Synthesis
- Teaching Of Mice and Men: Close Reading Steinbeck: Letters vs. Novel
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Using Internet Browsers and Email: Using Email and Google Drive
- Teaching Animal Farm: To Ban or Not to Ban; That Is the Question
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: Sketch It: Making a Maycomb Map