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Standard RI.LCS.8

RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.

Grade(s): 8

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Year: 2015

All Media Involve Writing: Analyzing a News Photo and Assuming the Role of Journalists

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 8, 10, 12

Using a news photo, students use close reading skills and assume the role of journalists who must write about events represented by the image.

Skyping Through Colonial Settlements

Lesson

Grades: 8

The influences of European nations that settled North America as well as the geographic landscape of each region were two of the most impactful factors that led to how the original thirteen colonies...

What Can I Say To Convince You?

Lesson

Grades: 8

In this lesson students will explore FDR’s New Deal program. They will then put themselves in the position of being strategists for a presidential campaign today. In doing so they will need to...

Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Reporting

Video

Grades: 4 5 6 7 8 9

From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Public Service Journalism with the Charleston Post and Courier Journalists Natalie Caula-Hauff...

Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina: Literature

Video

Grades: 4 5 6 7 8 9

From the Jazz Age to the Digital Age: Pulitzer Prize Winners in South Carolina - Celebrating Pulitzer Novelist Julia Peterkin. Julia Mood Peterkin was South Carolina’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning...