Grade 8 Weeks 1-3

passed from one generation to another and preserved by word of mouth

• Folktales

• Stories

• Short Story

• Oral Communication

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which of the following has shaped the ways of nations?

• literature

• folktales

• essays

• scriptures

Which among the following does not make a story a folktale?

• It talks about the origin of the world.

• It has been passed through word of mouth.

• It is a made-up story.

• It reflects the culture and tradition of the people.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which of the following cultures benefited from a rich and vast source of literature?

• Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Filipino

• Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Indian

• Arabic, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, and Western

• Japanese and German

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Be careful whom you accuse.

Which situation depicts the above line from the story?

• You are a credible eye-witness.

• You testified based on what you have heard from another person.

• You made a hasty decision.

• You are biased to one side.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The honest man believes it and has no fear, because he has done no wrong.

Which modern situation depicts one of the themes in the story we read "The Thief and the Elephant"?

• The student looks straight into the eyes of the teacher as she defends herself from the cheating accusation.

• The student fidgets in front of the teacher as she defends herself from the cheating accusation.

• The student stutters when the teacher asks him if he cheated on the test.

• The student cannot speak when the teacher accuses him of cheating on the test.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Do your duty.

Which situation depicts the above line from the story?

• singing the national anthem properly

• answering phone calls

• helping the elder to cross the street

• giving a tip to a waiter

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following shows situational irony?

• a math major responding erroneously to a simple arithmetic question

• a student saying something that is completely the opposite of what he means

• a scene in a book in which the reader knows that the character is about to be surprised by someone behind him

• a scene in a play in which the audience already knows what will happen next but the characters are unaware

What is the figure of speech that occurs when there is a contradiction between the expected and the actual outcome?

• irony

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What irony is the use of words that express something different from what a person actually means?

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• satirical irony

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5