Close Reading & Literary Analysis — Chapter overview · English 8: Trust, Community & Responsibility, Grade 8
Use the grade’s short story to explain how a change in a character or narrator develops a larger idea. Analyze two details from different parts and one craft choice.
Chapter question
How can close reading & literary analysis help us examine trust, community & responsibility?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 1.1 · Theme & Symbolism
I can determine a theme in a text and explain how details develop it.
- Unit 1.2 · Character & Dialogue
I can explain how a specific line of dialogue reveals something about a character's personality or motives.
- Unit 1.3 · Plot Structure & Pacing
I can identify the stages of plot structure (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) in a text.
- Unit 1.4 · Tone & Mood
I can identify the tone an author takes toward a subject and the mood a passage creates for the reader.
- Unit 1.5 · Close Reading & Textual Evidence
I can make one observation and one supported inference.