Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
North Carolina Language Arts Standards
- Uses language to express individual perspectives in response to personal, social, cultural, and historical issues
- Synthesizes and uses information from a variety of sources
- Refines the understanding and use of argument
- Refines critical thinking skills and creates criteria to evaluate text and multimedia
- Responds to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes
- Applies conventions of grammar and language usage
National Education Technology Standards (NETS)
Grades 6-8 Performance Indicators:
- Apply productivity/multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning
- Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using telecommunications and collaborative tools
- Select and use appropriate tools and technology resources to accomplish a variety of tasks and solve problems
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Analyze a literary character
- Identify and describe the narrative elements of a book
- Reflect on moral issues raised in a book
- Read critically using a variety of reader-response techniques
- Identify a theme supported with specific references to a book
- Break down complex tasks into manageable pieces
- Reflect metacognitively on the use of reading strategies
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