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English Language Arts Grade 8 Reading Standards:
-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.
-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.
-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.
Crossover standards:
6-8 Science
Understand the structure of the earth and how interactions of constructive and destructive forces have resulted in changes in the surface of the Earth over time and the effects of the lithosphere on humans.
In relation to the MegaCrash
Grade 8 Information and Technology Essential Standards
Use technology and other resources for assigned tasks.
Imagine a world without technology as in the trilogy.
Occupational Intro to Math

Apply time and measurement skills to solve problems.
Create a timeline based on events in the trilogy.