Grade 8 Course Outline

The eighth-grade course outline provides guidelines for implementing several of the Shell Center’s Formative Assessment Lessons. Educators can use this information to better understand how to apply the lessons, which are compatible with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), to their own instruction.

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