Tuesday, January 28th

Lesson Objectives - Students will continue using the SOAPSTone template to help organize their ideas in order to identify the author's thesis in an editorial essay.  They will also be able to tell the difference between fact and opinion.
Homework - Two things:

• Students will have a brief but important quiz about editorial analysis on Thursday.  Look over pages 134-159. (exclude page 154)
• Students are to continue looking for samples of editorials either online or in print.  Hint: Google search "newspaper editorials opinion."  Eventually, students will have to select one example of an editorial and analyze the author's effectiveness. (UPDATE - http://www.headlinespot.com/opinion/oped/ is a pretty good place to start.)

 CCSS -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.2 Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.