Eighth Grade Reading Workshop
Reading Units of Study may include:
- Literary Nonfiction:Upper middle grader readers determine central ideas that are implied, and not stated directly. They identify and trace arguments across nonfiction texts, reading flexibility as the nonfiction texts have a blend of informational passages and narrative passages.
- Critical Literacy: Unlocking Contemporary Fiction: Upper middle grade readers analyze themes, characters, power dynamics, and identity in literature through theoretical lenses. They develop analytical summarizing techniques, annotating and producing long-form notes in response to their reading.
- Dystopian Book Clubs:Upper middle grade readers study character archetypes, symbolism, and the political and systemic obstacles that characters face in dystopian literature.
Eighth grade readers could be reading fiction books like Scythe, Divergent, All-American Boys, Pride, Orbiting Jupiter, or The Poet X.
Eighth grade readers could be reading nonfiction texts like Flesh and Blood So Cheap, Immigrant Kids, Free Lunch, March, or The Disappearing Spoon.
Adjustments for text sets - topics like (essential research skills) text sets on current topics could include plastic waste, climate change, and freedom of speech, and voting rights.