The Split Cherry Tree

A friend asked for help finding a text to go with another essay on Education for teaching standard 8 in Reading literature for 8th grade. She wanted to know if this essay was of appropriate text complexity. So I am looking it up to see if it fits text complexity demands for this grade level, including the quantitative, qualitatitve and reader and task considerations. A teacher had gotten in touch with her to find out information about teaching this standard, which involves structure, style, meaning and comparing to an alternate text (she is planning to use "education" as well). I will need to find the other text to analyze, as well. She and another teacher were struggling to find the right approach to teaching this standard and asked for some direction from other colleagues. I will try to see if they are on the right track with it by examining both texts and looking to see if there are style and structure elements sufficient to