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Common Core Standards

Grade 8

Writing W.8.3

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

This entire Common Core Standard is pretty much the same word-for-word as its seventh-grade counterpart, so take a look at our description for that standard if you want to see a description for this one. The only difference is that students should now have their narrators/main characters do some reflection during the course of their stories. Here are some reflections we'd like to suggest:

1. Why is life so unfair sometimes?
2. What would have happened if I had said "no" instead of "yes"?
3. If a tree falls in a forest and no one's around, do we even care if it makes a sound?

We might not know the answers to the first two questions, but we at Shmoop have an the answer to the third: definitely not. Unless that tree lands on the principal's car. Then we'll never hear the end of it.

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