The Art of Loving Well
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS
READING: LITERATURE - Grade 8
Key Ideas and
Details
8.1 All 41 literary selections in The Art of Loving Well
8.2 All 41 literary selections in the anthology
8.3 A & P, President Cleveland Where Are You, If Only, The Old
Grandfather and His Little Grandson, A Distant Bell,
Welcome, The City of Trembling Leaves, Sixteen, What
Means Switch, The Makeover of Meredith Kaplan, Too Early
Spring, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (excerpt), Up on Fong
Mountain, Houseparty, Ben’s Story Judy’s Story, Beauty and
the Beast, Appointment with Love, Ozzie and Harriet, The
Birthday Party, Funeral Plans
Craft and Structure
8.4 The art of “text crawling” is covered in The Art of Loving
Well Teacher Guide, in theory on p. 6 and specifically for each
of the subsequent literary selections; note “Opening Day”
activity in TG. The Activities for the following stories contain
specific lessons on vocabulary: A & P, President Cleveland, A
Distant Bell, Welcome, Cinderella, What Means Switch,
Makeover of Meredith Kaplan, Love Poem, Up on Fong
Mountain, The Elephant Is Slow to Mate, Ozzie and Harriet,
Beyond What, The Birthday Party, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130,
Experiences in a Concentration Camp
8.5 Cinderella (Perault) and Cinderella (Brothers Grimm); A & P
and A Distant Bell (Activity C, p. 65)
8.6 President Cleveland, Sixteen, Welcome, Too Early Spring,
Appointment with Love
8.7 Compare Disney DVDs with Little Briar-rose and Cinderella
Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas 8.8 N/A
8.9 Teacher Guide: Little Briar-rose, A&P, Cinderella, Beauty and
the Beast, Cupid and Psyche, Here Comes the Bride p. 332
Range of Reading
and Level of Text
Complexity
8.10 “Once Upon a Time” Introduction to The Art of Loving Well
Teacher Guide, pp 1-5.
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