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Theme and Symbolism

8th Grade · Reading · Easy · about 10 minutes

RL.8.2 | Theme and Symbolism - Easy level

Standards referenced

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.2 — 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, set

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