Common Core Standards
Grade 8
Writing W.8.6
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.
This Common Core Standard basically asks students to write stuff on their computers, either by themselves or with others. That's really it—the whole thing about presenting "relationships between information and ideas efficiently" basically just says that students should be able to write stuff that clearly connects multiple ideas or pieces of information together, just like they would in any ol' essay. Think of it this way: standard essay-writing + the computer/Internet = this standard. Easy peasy, right?
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Follow the Thread
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Split Identities: Being Two at Once
- Teaching The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Your Own Absolutely True Diary
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Modern-Day Toms and Hucks
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The Little Prince: Baobabs & WWII
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Individual Identity
- Teaching And Then There Were None: Putting It All Together
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Title
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Planting Your Wait and See Tree
- Online Community, Culture, and Citizenship: The Ties That Bind: How To Be A Good Online Citizen
- Online Research and Keyword Search Techniques: Research Basics: Where in the World (Wide Web) Is…?
- Teaching Of Mice and Men: New American Dream
- Teaching Hatchet: All Alone and Nowhere to Go