Common Core State Standard: 8.NS.1.
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: The Number System
Theme: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard Description: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.
Common Core State Standard: 8.NS.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: The Number System
Theme: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard Description: Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., ?^2). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of ?2 (square root of 2), show that ?2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 3^2
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x^2 = p and x^3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that ?2 is irrational.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard Description: Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.6
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard Description: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y =mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.7
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve linear equations in one variable.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.7.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.7.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.8
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.8.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.8.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.8.C
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to two linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Understand that a function is a rule that assigns to each input exactly one output. The graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs consisting of an input and the corresponding output. (Function notation is not required in Grade 8.)
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Compare properties of two functions each represented in a different way (algebraically, graphically, numerically in tables, or by verbal descriptions). For example, given a linear function represented by a table of values and a linear function represented by an algebraic expression, determine which function has the greater rate of change.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function A = s^2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Use functions to model relationships between quantities
Standard Description: Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Use functions to model relationships between quantities
Standard Description: Describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a graph (e.g., where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the angle-angle criterion for similarity of triangles. For example, arrange three copies of the same triangle so that the three angles appear to form a line, and give an argument in terms of transversals why this is so.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.6
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.7
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.8
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.9
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones and spheres.
Standard Description: Know the formulas for the volume of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Know that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Use the equation of a linear model to solve problems in the context of bivariate measurement data, interpreting the slope and intercept. For example, in a linear model for a biology experiment, interpret a slope of 1.5 cm/hr as meaning that an additional hour of sunlight each day is associated with an additional 1.5 cm in mature plant height.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Understand that patterns of association can also be seen in bivariate categorical data by displaying frequencies and relative frequencies in a two-way table. Construct and interpret a two-way table summarizing data on two categorical variables collected from the same subjects. Use relative frequencies calculated for rows or columns to describe possible association between the two variables. For example, collect data from students in your class on whether or not they have a curfew on school nights and whether or not they have assigned chores at home. Is there evidence that those who have a curfew also tend to have chores?
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.A.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.A.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Know that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.A.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Use the equation of a linear model to solve problems in the context of bivariate measurement data, interpreting the slope and intercept. For example, in a linear model for a biology experiment, interpret a slope of 1.5 cm/hr as meaning that an additional hour of sunlight each day is associated with an additional 1.5 cm in mature plant height.
Common Core State Standard: 8.SP.A.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme: Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data
Standard Description: Understand that patterns of association can also be seen in bivariate categorical data by displaying frequencies and relative frequencies in a two-way table. Construct and interpret a two-way table summarizing data on two categorical variables collected from the same subjects. Use relative frequencies calculated for rows or columns to describe possible association between the two variables. For example, collect data from students in your class on whether or not they have a curfew on school nights and whether or not they have assigned chores at home. Is there evidence that those who have a curfew also tend to have chores?
Common Core State Standard: 8.NS.A.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: The Number System
Theme: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard Description: Know that numbers that are not rational are called irrational. Understand informally that every number has a decimal expansion; for rational numbers show that the decimal expansion repeats eventually, and convert a decimal expansion which repeats eventually into a rational number.
Common Core State Standard: 8.NS.A.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: The Number System
Theme: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
Standard Description: Use rational approximations of irrational numbers to compare the size of irrational numbers, locate them approximately on a number line diagram, and estimate the value of expressions (e.g., ?^2). For example, by truncating the decimal expansion of ?2 (square root of 2), show that ?2 is between 1 and 2, then between 1.4 and 1.5, and explain how to continue on to get better approximations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.A.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software
Standard Description: Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles, about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and the angle-angle criterion for similarity of triangles. For example, arrange three copies of the same triangle so that the three angles appear to form a line, and give an argument in terms of transversals why this is so.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.B.6
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.B.7
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.B.8
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem
Standard Description: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system.
Common Core State Standard: 8.G.C.9
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones and spheres.
Standard Description: Know the formulas for the volume of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.A.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Understand that a function is a rule that assigns to each input exactly one output. The graph of a function is the set of ordered pairs consisting of an input and the corresponding output. (Function notation is not required in Grade 8.)
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.A.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Compare properties of two functions each represented in a different way (algebraically, graphically, numerically in tables, or by verbal descriptions). For example, given a linear function represented by a table of values and a linear function represented by an algebraic expression, determine which function has the greater rate of change.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.A.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Define, evaluate, and compare functions
Standard Description: Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function A = s^2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.B.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Use functions to model relationships between quantities
Standard Description: Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.
Common Core State Standard: 8.F.B.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Functions
Theme: Use functions to model relationships between quantities
Standard Description: Describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a graph (e.g., where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.A.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions. For example, 3^2 × 3^(–5) = 3^(–3) = 1/(3^3) = 1/27.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.A.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Use square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations of the form x^2 = p and x^3 = p, where p is a positive rational number. Evaluate square roots of small perfect squares and cube roots of small perfect cubes. Know that ?2 is irrational.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.A.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 × 10^8 and the population of the world as 7 × 10^9, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.A.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Work with radicals and integer exponents
Standard Description: Perform operations with numbers expressed in scientific notation, including problems where both decimal and scientific notation are used. Use scientific notation and choose units of appropriate size for measurements of very large or very small quantities (e.g., use millimeters per year for seafloor spreading). Interpret scientific notation that has been generated by technology.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.B.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard Description: Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine which of two moving objects has greater speed.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.B.6
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations
Standard Description: Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y =mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.7
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve linear equations in one variable.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.7.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Give examples of linear equations in one variable with one solution, infinitely many solutions, or no solutions. Show which of these possibilities is the case by successively transforming the given equation into simpler forms, until an equivalent equation of the form x = a, a = a, or a = b results (where a and b are different numbers).
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.7.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve linear equations with rational number coefficients, including equations whose solutions require expanding expressions using the distributive property and collecting like terms.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.8
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Analyze and solve pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.8.A
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Understand that solutions to a system of two linear equations in two variables correspond to points of intersection of their graphs, because points of intersection satisfy both equations simultaneously.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.8.B
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve systems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. Solve simple cases by inspection. For example, 3x + 2y = 5 and 3x + 2y = 6 have no solution because 3x + 2y cannot simultaneously be 5 and 6.
Common Core State Standard: 8.EE.C.8.C
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme: Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations
Standard Description: Solve real-world and mathematical problems leading to two linear equations in two variables. For example, given coordinates for two pairs of points, determine whether the line through the first pair of points intersects the line through the second pair.
Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.3
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.4
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.5
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.AR.DS.6
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Expressions & Equations
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.GR.DS.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Geometry
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.DAP.DS.1
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.CCSS.DAP.DS.2
Grade: 8
Subject: MATH
Domain: Statistics & Probability
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: RL.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.8
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.F
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1
Common Core State Standard: W.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.8
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literature (e.g.,
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g.,
Common Core State Standard: W.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.3.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects (e.g., emphasizing the actor or the action; expressing uncertainty or describing a state contrary to fact).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g. verbal irony, puns) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., bullheaded, willful, firm, persistent, resolute).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: 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.
Common Core State Standard: RL.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Literature
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Key Ideas and Details
Standard Description: Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Craft and Structure
Standard Description: Determine an author"s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.8
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.
Common Core State Standard: RI.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading: Informational Text
Theme: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Standard Description: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.1.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Establish and maintain a formal style.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.2.F
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence, signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another, and show the relationships among experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.3.E
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Text Types and Purposes
Standard Description: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Common Core State Standard: W.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 8 on page 53.)
Common Core State Standard: W.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard Description: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.8
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "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").
Common Core State Standard: W.8.9.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Standard Description: Apply grade 8 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., "Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced").
Common Core State Standard: W.8.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Writing Standards
Theme: Range of Writing
Standard Description: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Form and use verbs in the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive mood.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.1.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice and mood.*
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use punctuation (comma, ellipsis, dash) to indicate a pause or break.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Use an ellipsis to indicate an omission.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.2.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Conventions of Standard English
Standard Description: Spell correctly.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.3.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Knowledge of Language
Standard Description: Use verbs in the active and passive voice and in the conditional and subjunctive mood to achieve particular effects (e.g., emphasizing the actor or the action; expressing uncertainty or describing a state contrary to fact).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word"s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.4.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Interpret figures of speech (e.g. verbal irony, puns) in context.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.
Common Core State Standard: L.8.5.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., bullheaded, willful, firm, persistent, resolute).
Common Core State Standard: L.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Language
Theme: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard Description: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.1.A
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.1.B
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.1.C
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.1.D
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Acknowledge new information expressed by others, and, when warranted, qualify or justify their own views in light of the evidence presented.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Comprehension and Collaboration
Standard Description: Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and relevance and sufficiency of the evidence and identifying when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Standard Description: Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
Common Core State Standard: SL.8.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Speaking & Listening
Theme:
Standard Description: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 8 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.1
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.2
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.3
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.4
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.5
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
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Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.6
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.7
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.8
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Literature
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.9
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
Common Core State Standard: 8.TEKS.R.DS.10
Grade: 8
Subject: ELA
Domain: Reading Information
Theme:
Standard Description:
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