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Comparing Modern and Historical Texts

8th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RL.8.9 | Comparing Modern and Historical Texts - Easy level

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Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.9 — Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such

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