"Students"
I believe "Eigth-grade" is an adjective of sorts or a category, but it might also be part of the subject.
Answer: It’s specific to a single artistic work and doesn’t overlap with other similar works.
Question: What is the passage
I think the purpose of moral education is to help make children virtuous—honest, responsible, and compassionate. Another is to make mature students informed and reflective about important and controversial moral issues. Both purposes are embedded in a yet larger project—making sense of life.
The first 8 lines make the poem sound like bad news, and the word "contagious" sets the mood for the poem. The pastoral tradition celebrates the beauty of the natural world and the simple pleasure of living in the countryside. However, the first 8 lines of the poem seem to claim the exact opposite, with words like "contagious" "surge" "cold", and "waste."
