Reading-8th Grade

Catholic Standards

Catholic Standards for Literature

Reading Standards for Literature

Catholic Standards for Informational Text

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Share how literature fosters both prudence and sound judgement in the human person. CSDS1

Develop empathy and compassion for a character’s crisis or choice in order to build virtue and better understand one’s own disposition and humanity. CSDS2

Display the virtues and values evident within stories that involve an ideal; take a stand for love, faith, courage, fidelity, truth, beauty, and all virtues. CSDS3

Identify with beautifully told and well-crafted works, especially those with elements of unity, harmony, and radiance of form. CSDS4 

Share how literature ignites the creative imagination by presenting in rich context amazing lives and situations as told by best storytellers and intellects. CSDS5

Delight and wonder through the reading of creative, sound, and healthy stories, plays and poems. CSDS7 

Analyze literature that reflects the transmission of a Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1 

Analyze works of fiction and non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth, Beauty and Goodness. CSGS2 

Analyze carefully chosen selections that strive to make known the proper nature of mankind, problems and experiences in trying to know and perfect both oneself and the world. CSGS3

Share how literature can contribute to strengthening one’s moral character. CSGS4 

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze texts that reflect the transmission of a Catholic culture and worldview. CSGS1

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze works of non-fiction to uncover authentic Truth, Beauty and Goodness. CSGS2

Students will use literary texts/materials to analyze carefully chosen selections that strive to make known the proper nature of mankind, problems and experiences in trying to know and perfect both oneself and the world. CSGS3

Students will use literary texts/materials to value how texts can contribute to strengthening one’s moral character. CSGS4

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Determine a moral 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.

CSIS1: Identify how literature interprets the human condition, behaviors, and actions in its redeemed and unredeemed state.

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. 

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in literary and Biblical texts, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.

CSIS5: Describe how writers can use language to convey truths that are universal and transcendent.R-8-3C-

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.

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.

CSIS14: Analyze the author’s reasoning and discover the author’s intent. 

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 moral/value choices made by the director or actors.

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.

CSIS10: Analyze literature to identify, interpret, and assimilate the culture handed down from previous generations. 

CSIS2: Describe how the rich spiritual knowledge communicated through fairy tales, fables, myths, parables, and other stories is a reflection on the development of a moral imagination.

By the end of the year, read, comprehend, and defend with an appropriate Catholic response for literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, appropriately complex for the individual student.

CSIS6: Analyze critical values presented in literature and the degree to which they are in accord or discord with a Catholic perspective.

Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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. 

CSIS8: Explain how texts assist one in transcending the limited horizon of human reality. 

Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

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.

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.

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.

CSIS14: Analyze the author’s reasoning and discover the author’s intent. 

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

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.

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; compare and contrast the information from two or more Gospels referencing a subject.

By the end of the year, read, comprehend, and use informational text to discern appropriate Catholic response to literary nonfiction and show an appreciation for informational text appropriately complex for the individual student.

CSIS11: Summarize how texts can reflect the historical and sociological culture of the time period in which it was written and help us better understand ourselves and other cultures and times.