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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 8

Strand - Reading Literature

Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

[RL.8.9] - Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.


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  • Analysis (Analyze)
    In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning.
  • Character
    Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts.
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Myth
    Narrative passed down through generations, intended to help explain why the world is the way it is. See Traditional literature
  • Theme
    Central message or abstract concept made concrete through representation in a literary text. Like a thesis, a theme implies a subject and predicate of some kind: for instance, not just vice as a standalone word, but a proposition such as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. Sometimes a theme is directly stated in a work, and sometimes it is revealed indirectly. A single work may have more than one theme. See Main idea, Moral.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RL.7.9
    Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

Successor Standards:

  • RL.9-10.9
    Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

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