Monday, January 27th

Lesson Objectives - Students will start looking at Vocabulary Unit 8.  They will then 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 - Students are to start 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.