8th Grade Literature October/November 2013 Unit 2 - Characters, Pages 148 - 249
Objectives: *Students will examine how authors use direct and indirect characterization to create interesting characters.
*Students will also analyze characters' motivations and actions.,
*Students will learn how to make inferences and make connections to better understand characters. They will also learn to make judgments about characters.
Missouri CA Grade Level Expectations
Use grade-level text to recognize and interpret the text features of fiction, poetry, and drama.
Use details from text to interpret behaviors, motives, and consequences of characters' actions.
Identify and explain literary techniques in text.
Compare, contrast, and analyze connections: text to text, text to self, and text to world.
Unit Selections: "Hamadi" "Passage to Freedom" "A Retrieved Reformation"